Humanity needs a new story—a new myth. The destructiveness caused by the old myth is evident in the collapsing infrastructure of both society and the biosphere. The old consciousness will not right the wrongs that have been perpetrated for thousands of years.
People’s attention has been focused on a flawed story (original sin, materialism, domination of nature, etc.) and an illusionary dream of ‘mankind.’ The attention needs to shift to a different one, a new story of equality, truth, power to the people and power to the earth—an egalitarian reality, not only for humankind, but for all things of the earth. This new story will give a different perspective of ourselves, the world around us and the things that we value.
Our new story is based on our hearts, not on our minds. It values the human family not the industrial elites. It sees value in partnership not exploitation of nature. It feels the bond between humanity and the earth not between ‘man and money.’ It hears a song of love not a sermon of greed and power. It tastes clean, clear water not industrial runoff. It smells the fragrant air not toxic emissions. Our human story values and recognizes the equality and worth of all living things of the earth and heaven. Our story values the wealth found within our hearts of compassion and love not the wealth of money and material things.
Our new myth begins with our continuing existence in the Garden of Eden sharing this paradise equally with all living things of the earth—an egalitarian existence. Our myth contains humanity’s birth in original divinity not in original sin. Our myth awakens us to the knowledge that we are in partnership with all things of nature—we are one with nature not separate from it. We see each other in peace as brothers and sisters not in conflict as strangers or foes. We are no longer our brothers and sisters keeper; we are our brothers/sisters.
Our story goes on to portray us first and foremost as divine human beings by not segregating us into either male or female or different races. We see all life connected in a divine web of consciousness—where spirit and matter, the relative and the absolute interpenetrate in an oneness of being.