David Korten: Change the Story, Change the Future

This is excerpted by David Korten's newest book Change the Story, Change the Future. Powerful and important by one of our nation and planet's great visionaries. As Annie Leonard states, "Once your read this book, you'll never be able to look at today's tired old stories the same." And as Frances Moore Lappé affirms, "We create the world according to the stories we tell ourselves; what power there is in this one realization." May we all be in process of seeing with new eyes and embracing and spreading the new stories, ones which value, nourish, and sustain Life and Love.

Peace & Blessings ~ Molly

Choice-making beings of many possibilities, we humans live by shared cultural stories. They are the lens through which we view reality. They shape what we most value as a society and the institutions by which we structure power.

We get our story wrong, we get our future wrong.

We are in terminal crisis because we have our defining story badly wrong. Seduced by fabricated Sacred Money and Markets story, we live in service to money-seeking corporate robots and relate to Earth as if it were a dead rock for sale.

Communications technologies now give us the capacity as a species to choose our common story with conscious intention. This is a moment of unprecedented opportunity to create a future consistent with our true nature and possibility as living beings born of a Living Earth born of a Living Universe.

An authentic Sacred Life and Living Earth story is emerging. It has ancient roots in indigenous wisdom. If embraced, it changes everything.

Change the story, change the future.

David Korten, Change the Story, Change the Future:

A Living Economy For a Living Earth