Saturday, July 14, 2018

Kelly Gerling : Healing Mother Earth

This excellent talk by a wise friend is powerful, illuminating, and deeply needed. Deep thanks to Kelly Patrick Gerling. And I agree - "We need faith in order to not experience despair. Particularly, in light of problems with the Earth. Cynicism is the psychological defense — a self-fulfilling psychological defense — of weakness to power." And, as more and more of are are realizing, "“The odds are against us, and the situation is dire.” So what to do? Kelly is among those visionaries who offer us alternatives to mass suffering and extinction. May each of us listen and work to discover and/or deepen our conscious, unique, and needed ways of responding... “The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things, and see that there might be another way to look at it, that you have not been shown.” 
Bless us all. We are all in this together. 
 Molly


“Healing Mother Earth”— Earth Day Sermon Transcript

Yes, let us wake up now!
In 1983, I did something I’ve done a lot since. I called up a person I wanted to learn from. I called up Apollo Nine astronaut Russell Schweickart. I was 30 years old. And I wanted to interview him about something. And he was nice enough. He answered the phone. He agreed to do a recording. And I’ve since reviewed what I wrote about that in a book where I quoted him. And I’ve reviewed the interview. And I wanted to share with you this idea that he shared with mewhich is one of those ideasits a world-saving, Earth-healing, extraordinary insight into what we need to do collectively. Humanity.
And everything that I’m going to talk about in my sermon15 or 20 minutesno moreDiane you just let me know if Im going overis leading up to that idea, that I want to shareis something for all of us to ponder and think about, and decide whether we want to embrace that idea. So more on that later.
Forty-eight years ago the first Earth Day occurred. Now if you’re over 50, you have a chance of remembering that. If you’re under 50, you’ll have to take our word for it. We had an Earth Day in 1970.
That was the same year I had a chance to circumnavigate the entire world with my dad who was an airline pilot. And I took ten flights from Kansas City to Kansas City, the long way aroundNew York, Athens, Bombay, Bangkok, and so forth, Hong Kong, Okinawa, Guam, Honolulu, LA, and back to Kansas City. I was in the cockpit, a lot. That was in the old days, where, you if you’re the pilot’s kid, you get to sit up there, and play in the cockpit, and hang out.
So it was a wonderful experience to see our worldthe whole world, at least the northern hemisphereto get a sense of the Earthas a teenagerand all these different places, which I was totally changed forever. To see Bombay, for example. And I understood what poverty was about. In Kansas, we didnt have shantytowns of hundreds of thousands of people. So it was a huge eye-opener.
And so that first Earth Day, in 1970invented by a gentleman named John McConnellis a way of reminding us, kind of like a wedding anniversary, if the Earth is our mom, or our wife. We want to have an anniversary to remember. Its like a birthday. And so, Earth Day is a way we can remember Mother Earth, or we can call her Our Earth, or we can call her Mother Nature, or we can call her Gaia, or the Earth Systemall the same. The Earth is all around us. The Earth produces the air we are breathing. Try not breathing it for a minute or two, and youll appreciate it, like when youre swimming underwater, or holding your breath. So it’s extraordinary that we have an Earth Daythat weve had 48 of them.
And what I’m going to do under the topic of “Healing Mother Earth”is a kind of medical approach:
• Diagnosis
• Treatment plan
• Figure out how to do the treatment
so that we can heal Her, and us, as part of Her. And to do that, I’m going to invoke a couple of Unity Principles, so…
• Principle ThreeThe power of thought to create.
Principle FiveActionlive what we know; what we learn; what we think.
Those twothought and action.
And it’s like Karen said in a sermon a couple of weeks ago, intention and commitment add up to, or equal, faith. That you create these experiences and concepts that lead to something new, something else.
And we need faith in order to not experience despair. Particularly, in light of problems with the Earth. Cynicism is the psychological defensea self-fulfilling psychological defenseof weakness to power.
The last song we heard invited us to wake up: “I need to move.” And so we all need to move.
Please go here to watch the full video talk or to continue the transcript: https://medium.com/@KellyGerling/healing-mother-earth-earth-day-sermon-transcript-30c70b19a38e

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