Heart to Heart

I just finished reading Anodea Judith's book, Waking the Global Heart. 

Anodea takes you on an amazing journey through the last 100,000 years of our evolution and growth on this planet. She explores the advances and backslides, the growth spurts and collapses that have brought us to this progressing but confusing era of history. 

She deeply and beautifully demonstrates how our historical growth has followed much the same growth cycle that is typical of a young human, evolving from  birth and dependency through the terrible two's, etc till we find ourselves now in late adolescence, culturally, trying to find our way to adulthood without a roadmap.

As with her earlier and most excellent book  Wheels of Life, Anodea finds the cycle in our existence and finds us advancing along like clockwork. Only now the clock is ticking faster than ever before, and like a fast paced action movie where the hero has to figure out which wire to cut as those last few seconds are ticking away on the easily readable LED display, we now find ourselves faced with the same three choices: right action, wrong action and inaction. Unfortunately it's not even remotely as simple as picking which wire to cut and the LED display is anything but readable.

What will we do? Hopefully we will grow up. Start relating to one another adult to adult, peer to peer, heart to heart rather than Superior to Inferior, God to man, Father to daughter. Instead of looking for the wire to cut, look for the connection to make. In fact make all the connections you can and make them from the heart.