Audio Extract from Contemplating Earth Module 1: Now / Apocalypse
"When we meditate, we experience an unveiling, a clearing of our perception, or better, our direct experience of what is the familiar pattern of our thoughts, all the stories we tell ourselves. The fantasies and hopes are unveiled, they become present we see through them." Jim Green We now all know – except those who are strenuously doing their best to deny it – that the Earth is in grave danger. The conditions for human life, even the conditions for life itself, are severely threatened. There have been previous radical shifts of climate as well as catastrophic mass extinctions across the almost 4 billion year history of life on earth. What is unique about this particular crisis is that we have no doubt what is causing it.