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How does it happen? It starts with a conversation. A while back, Cecile Andrews, our local Seattle author of The Circle of Simplicity,
explained to me how the women’s movement changed the story on gender
and unleashed the long suppressed power of the feminine. It started
with discussion circles in which women came together to share personal
stories. As each woman spoke her truth, a larger truth was revealed for
all to see. The prevailing story that the key to a woman’s happiness is
to find the right man, marry him, and devote her life to his service
was not true.[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
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Profound
social change takes place when an important cultural story changes—and
the impetus to challenge imperial rule rarely comes from within the
institutions of Empire. Democracy took hold when we replaced the story
of the divine right of kings with the story that the powers of
government derive from the will of the people. People of color and
women won recognition of their full human rights only as the civil
rights and women’s movements successfully exposed the fallacy of the
story that people of color and women are less than fully human.
Recognizing the full humanity of all peoples opens us to a deeper
understanding of what it truly does mean to be human in all the rich
potentials that our human nature embodies.[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
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Change
begins with a new story that celebrates the best, rather than the
worst, of what we are and can be. It’s pretty straightforward. If we
convince ourselves that we are innately brutal, greedy beings and that
this is all for the good, then we set ourselves a goal of perfecting
our capacity for greed and violence, thus perpetuating the world of our
nightmares. It is time to start filling our heads instead with
the story that it is our nature to be caring and giving and that this
is all for the good, and therefore we properly set our sights on
perfecting our capacity for love and caring and create the world of our
dreams.[ Read More]
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So
what’s our problem? Why are we in such a mess? Why didn’t we long ago
just get together to create the world we really want? What are the real
barriers to creating the world in which we measure our progress against
a national happiness index rather than by an index of how fast we are
turning stuff into garbage?[ Read More]
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