And more thoughts beyond man-made ego - be sure to skip the Ad Ariel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuFNmH7lVTA The Rights of Nature: A Global Movement - Feature Documentary Western views and the legal system tend to view nature as property, and as a resource from which wealth is extracted, a commodity whose only value is to provide for human needs. But for millennia indigenous communities have viewed themselves as part of nature. As pressures on ecosystems mount and as conventional laws seem increasingly ... www.youtube.com On 30 May 2022, at 11:31 am, Mofwoofoo via WSM-Discuss <[email protected]> wrote: I believe that if humanity is ever going to get it right and create a world of peace, justice, liberty, and abundance for all, humanity needs to understand who each one of us is, that is, we must move from the belief that it is our individuation, i.e. the ego or personality that is who we are, to a more profound and accurate comprehension which is that not only are we individuated, but at the same time we are all a part of the tree of life, and in particular, the branch of homo sapiens. This is easy to see from this metaphor: How foolish it would be if a leaf had consciousness and believed it was only a leaf without realizing that it is also a part of a tree. Once this realization saturates humanity, it will be much more difficult for everyone to accept the current atrocities that beset humanity every day such as starvation, war, propaganda, poverty, etc. and much more likely to create a more beautiful world that resides inside of everyone´s heart. Unconditional love for everyone is not very difficult. One only needs to love the divine that abides within all living beings and at the same time abhore all asocial, cruel, and dishonest behavior. Simply separate the action from the purity that may be buried or hidden, but that is inevitably within each of us. On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 6:34 PM Jinan K B <[email protected]> wrote: hello I am sending the recording of the talk on the impact of literacy on the formation of 'beingness' https://youtu.be/pJebkr0DHKQ CONSEQUENCE OF LITERACY: Exploring the impact of literacy in the making of ANTHROPOCENTRIC 'MODERN' HUMANS Literates learn the WORD. Illiterates learn the WORLD. 1. Why the modern mind will find it difficult to understand this and how it will resist knowing facts. 2. Conscious Reasoning - the product of readymade knowledge, linearity, and sequentiality- the product of the printed word. 3. Formation of the mind: How do the world and the word shape the formation of illiterates and literates shape? 4. How does knowledge precedes knowing causing an ontological reversal? 5. How does it usher in the process of alienation - Body-mind fragmentation? 6. Indigenous and modern childhood: A Comparison, 7. Knowledge production and knowledge transfer, 8. Experiential language of illiterates and mentally created language of literates, 9. Presence and absence. Hope you will find time to reflect on the issues I have raised and engage in exploration with me. Thanking you -- Jinan, TEXT DISTORTS, DIGITAL DESTROYS, WORLD AWAKENS http://kbjinan.in/ <http://jinankb.in/> http://ekfoundation.in/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC80rT8Zj1EE8TrzD3UreYfQ www.re-cognition.org https://independent.academia.edu/JinanKodapully 09447121544 -- To reply to the author of this message, select "reply"; to reply to the whole list, select "reply to all". --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Radical Ecological Democracy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/radical_ecological_democracy/CAH0%3D6_v8fo.... ________________________________________ ** Inspired by the World Social Forum, WSMDiscuss – the successor to a list named ‘WSFDiscuss’ started in 2005 - is an open, unmoderated, and self-organising forum for the exchange of information and views on the experience, practice, and theory of social and political movement at any level (local, national, regional, and global), including the World Social Forum. Join in ! ** _______________________________________________ World Social Movement Discuss mailing list POST to LIST : Send email to [email protected] SUBSCRIBE : Send empty email to [email protected] UNSUBSCRIBE : Send empty email to [email protected] LIST ARCHIVES : https://lists.openspaceforum.net/pipermail/wsm-discuss/ LIST INFORMATION : https://lists.openspaceforum.net/mailman/listinfo/wsm-discuss POSTING GUIDELINES : http://openspaceforum.net/twiki/tiki-index.php?page=Mailing+List+Posting+Gui... Old / previous WSFDiscuss List Archives : http://openspaceforum.net/pipermail/worldsocialforum-discuss_openspaceforum....