“ We are at the terminal phase of the Cenozoic – the last 65 million years

We are not just passing into another historical period or another cultural modification

We are changing the chemistry of the planet

We are changing the bio-systems

We are changing the geo-systems of the planet on a scale of millions of years

But more specifically we are terminating the last 65 million years of life development

Now a person would say – Well where do we go from here?

To my mind we go from the terminal phase – if we survive it – into a really sustainable world

We will be passing from the terminal Cenozoic into what I call the Ecozoic

And the primary principle of the Ecozoic is that the Universe - and in particular planet Earth – is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects

If we don’t learn that – nothing is going to work

Whereas all this beauty of the universe that we see about us came into being without human consultation

From here on the universe will never function that way again.”

Edited Interview clip from video recording by writer and teacher Ram Dass (Richard Alpert) in 1991

Of one thing we can be sure: our own future is inseparable from the larger community that brought us into being and which sustains us in every expression of our human quality of life, in our aesthetic and emotional sensitivities, our intellectual perceptions, our sense of the divine, as well as in our physical nourishment and bodily healing.

The Great Work - p. 162

The Great Work - p. 200

The Great Work - p. 200

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