The Gaia Community College » relationships http://www.gaiacommunitycollege.com Reinventing humanity in order to establish a mutually enhancing relationship with the earth... Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:20:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 The Charter for Compassion http://www.gaiacommunitycollege.com/the-charter-for-compassion http://www.gaiacommunitycollege.com/the-charter-for-compassion#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:09:31 +0000 Biophile http://www.gaiacommunitycollege.com/?p=143 Originally envisioned by Karen Armstrong as her wish for winning the 2008 TED prize, The Charter for Compassion is a gorgeous example of “a cooperative effort to restore not only compassionate thinking but, more importantly, compassionate action to the center of religious, moral and political life”. (quote from their website) I fell in love with the initiative as it seems that any energy that nurtures such purposeful expression of higher ideals is worthy of note.

If there is any one activity purposefully engaged in that has the power to help heal and transform our world into the one envisioned when Thomas Berry spoke about mutually enhancing relationships, compassion must be it.

Peace to you and yours,
Eric

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]]> http://www.gaiacommunitycollege.com/the-charter-for-compassion/feed 0 Two Great Videos http://www.gaiacommunitycollege.com/two-great-videos http://www.gaiacommunitycollege.com/two-great-videos#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 18:15:55 +0000 Aether http://gaiacommunitycollege.com/?p=55 While neither of these videos are literal tellings of The Universe Story, they both contain significant elements regarding mutually enhancing lifestyles for kinder human earth relations, in addition to potentially inspiring juicy good conversation, so we thought we would include them here. The first is a short film that I stumbled upon that delivers a simple message about energy conservation in a most brilliant manner. Extremely creative, and quite admirable. I hope you enjoy.

The second item is a full length movie that we watched at home last night. It floored us. Full of deep resonant archetypes that ultimately address the choices that each one of us makes about whether our lives are led in an integral fashion or not, we were duly impressed with the overall artistic presentation of content of this nature. An all too rare combination in Hollywood. There are also a couple of sequences that portray interesting renditions of the big bang, in addition to creative portrayals of consciousness issues. Not too surprising, apparently this film didn’t do too well at the box office, but is slowly gaining a strong admiration society globally. Highly recommended and thoroughly thought provoking.

I hope you are as inspired by these as we were. Enjoy!
Eric

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