Loving Earth
Developing a ‘Deeply Caring Reciprocal Partnership’
by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez
To save the Earth, we must fall in love with her, writes Robert Koehler, taking his inspiration from the work of Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics.
Koehler and Eisenstein say that in the trajectory of human evolution, we have been locked in the selfish adolescent phase for a long, long time, just seeking to take what we need from our Earth mother, without thought of giving much in return, or of the reality of finite limits.
When we fall in love, Eisenstein says, “perfect selfishness falls apart as the self expands to include the beloved within its bounds.â€
I remember falling in love like that as an adolescent, and as a young adult too.
It’s true that when you’re in love, the boundaries between the self and other dissolve, and you exist in a harmonious utopia of mutual beneficence. (more…)