Mindful Living on a Lovestruck Planet: Unfolding Ourselves & Our World

By Bill Ewens

There are two things that we have got to do in this life: Live Healthy Lives and Birth a Lovestruct Planet. The first, "Our Inner Mission," is to awaken to our life's purpose and become who we are meant to be. The second, "Our outer Mission," is to DO what we can to make our world a healthier place to unfold our lives. Our inner mission is the more important of the two tasks. Without increased consciousness, our achievements mean very little. Lacking advancement on the inner level, we do not create useful change. We merely re-create modified versions of the same world over-and-over again.Living Healthy Lives--our inner mission--involves awakening to our life's purpose, becoming more aware of the workings of our inner selves, and not wasting our time trying to be what others expect us to be. It also involves stepping up to life each day in a mindful way, and mastering solitude. the transformative power of being alone. This can be painful, and alcohol abuse, drug abuse, food abuse and other types of human pathology are often employed to avoid such discomfort. We look for a safe place, burrow our heads in the sand, and stay where we are rather than moving forward. Birthing a Lovestruct Planet--our outer mission--is to DO what we can to make our world a healthier place to unfold our lives. This involves such things as: * Replacing domination and empire in our modern world with partnership and earth community.* Replacing top-down vulture capitalism with a cooperative economy that works for all of us and our planet. * Replacing dominance power struggles in families with child rearing that encourages experimentation and learning, and produces less resentment than corporal punishment and moral judgments. * Replacing forced schooling based on command and external control with mindful education where students learn to control their own lives. As Dr. Martin L King Jr. observed: "What I do to others, I do to myself. As long as there is poverty in the world, I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than 28 or 30 years, I can ever be totally healthy--even if I just got a good checkup at the Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way the world is made." In our future, we can perceive two paths. The one path leads to the Land of Domination and Inequality. We are invited to happily sleepwalk into an uninhabitable planet, one of famine, economic collapse, perpetual war anda sun that cooks us inside-and-out--one that is coming much sooner and is more awful than we can imagine. The second path leads to a Lovestruct World secured in partnership and earth community. Partnership relations, after all, are the "nurseries of human nature." The ethic of partnership is the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." People working together can create a better life for us all. Service, compassion, cooperation, and love are valued as essential social goods and considered a measure of healthy maturity. As income inequality continues to rise, we desperately need changes such as these. We each can experience the intrinsic rewards that come from responsible service and shares in the benefits of the growing generative power of the whole. When trust, compassion and cooperation become self-reinforcing., conflict can be embraced as an opportunity for creative learning. It becomes natural to expand the circle of cooperation in anticipation of the increasing opportunities for mutual gain that expanded cooperation. We grow stronger through working together. We have done it before when the stakes were not nearly so high as they are today. But this coming journey must begin with our initial step moving forward together.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1973234726
• ISBN13: 9781973234722
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"