Creating a Wisdom Culture

Humanity is clearly at a cross-roads. We have reached 7 billion living souls on the planet and the planet cannot sustain the pressure of the fast use of non-renewable resources for long.

Like teenagers about to leave the comforts of home, we must either grow up and take adult responsibility or, failing that, become dependent beings whose ultimate state is self-destructive. We have a choice--to create a new, vital wisdom culture or destroy the very home that has sustained us for 100s of millions of years. We are at that threshold.

So entrenched are our current self-destructive attitudes toward ourselves and our relationship with the earth that we assume that our economic well-being and ecological stewardship of the planet are at odds. Tragically the earth which is the source of our happiness, our current prosperity, and our very survival is in peril. If we destroy that source (our beautiful home with all of its rich gifts), then we destroy ourselves.

There has to be a way forward that can balance these things, reverse the trend, and love the planet...that way is the "wisdom way of knowing and being." Our work is to imagine and create, person-by-person, community-by-community a wisdom culture where balance and equilibrium both personally and collectively are maintained.

This is our work--and we are partners with the divine in learning how to do this. And it is a daily business--and the "devil is in the details" as they say.