In Abundance

How could we have ever thought that we lived in a world of lack with grass this green and ocean this blue.

Nature's generosity is palpable, but we've been conditioned in modern society to mostly only see lack. We see lack within ourselves and that mirrors out into the world, spreading to everything we touch. We have gotten ourselves into a pattern of cultivating lack, and reaping these lacking harvests so consistently that we forget that our world could be any other way. What if a change in internal perspective from lack to abundance could quickly change it all?

Our indigenous ancestors cultivated bounty. They saw the earth as bountiful and they cultivated their relationship with the earth in a very intentional way that assumed and therefore created bounty. Yes, they had suffering, death, and starvation just as we do today. The mindset, however, was that of a perpetual state of gratitude and appreciation, and they were capable of a deep relationship to the earth and to each other. There was an overarching belief that they were unconditionally cared for and that true needs in the earth's infinite wisdom would be met. Our ancestors of the past knew how to cultivate bounty, starting from within. They lived in no lack.

An invitation of our times is to live in that space again. Even in modern society with technology and buildings and plastics that don’t biodegrade, and environmental degradation, and deforestation, and pollution, etc. it is possible to live from a space of "more than enough." It is a state that can be reached unconditionally, not dependent on any external circumstances. Even in a wasteland can abundance be found.

A first step is to refuse to see ourselves as lacking, and then to extend that same favor to the earth. To believe that we and all of creation are bountiful, and to start living and making choices from that place of enough...and then the bounty will come; bounty in the form of new ideas and perspectives, and new way of of working with the earth that naturally solve our most dire problems by the grace of her magnificent processes. This is the invitation for you and I and each of the 8 billion people who call this place and time home.