Furthering Life on Earth

Rumination, a dysfunctional problem solving method, involves repetitive thinking about negative feelings. Our thoughts churn over how we can solve a long unresolved problem, but for every imagined solution we recognize negative consequences and turn to another solution, and then another. In a repetitive loop, we come back to earlier solutions we had rejected and come up with the same negative consequences.  Read more

People make tools. Our tool making has built upon itself to become the complicated technologies we have today. We now have the technological capacities to destroy the planet in an afternoon or solar lamps to hold back the dark of night. Yet we have no means as a society to sort through all the technologies to identify which ones harm life or the Earth and which ones further life on Earth. We as a people do not have the common means to say no to innovative technologies that have the capacity to disrupt what we value.  Read more.

When we act upon an urgent compulsion to have our way, we harmfully impose our will upon others or to influence a situation more to our liking. The sacred work to further life on Earth requires us not to act on an urge to harm others for self-benefit. Those on the path to further life on Earth pause and investigate the forces and intentions of wanting to impose our will on others or the situation before they act.  Read more…

Awareness of Living within the Family of Place

We have the awareness that all life shares the common purpose to further life on Earth in ways that align with the sacred values.[1] All beings have the sacred responsibility to further life on earth.

We have the awareness that to live with other beings on Earth in ways that that further life on Earth requires that we learn to live together as an interbeing family.

We have the awareness that all life lives together as a family within a shared place that we all hold in common.

We have the awareness that to make the transition from a culture of individualism that practices the willingness to harm other life and the earth for self-benefit to a culture of furthering life on Earth, those on the sacred path of the Earth Interbeing must discipline ourselves to overcome our harmful beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that keep us apart. We must do this  before we can work as an interbeing to further life within our place.

We have the awareness that for as we recover from our willingness to harm others for self-benefit, we learn how to commonly live with other beings in our shared place and support each other through the community values of care and mutuality.

Rev. 11/17/25

[1] Sacred Values of the Earth Interbeing (work in progress): sacred unity and equality of life on Earth, inner and outer balance, compassion, generosity, resolve, joyful community of place, acceptance of what we cannot change, and humbleness.