PodcastEpisode 7
Becoming Ancestors: What Will We Dream for Those Who Come After?
An invitation to sense what wants to be born beyond modernity's long night.
Each generation lives the dreams of those before. We enjoy rights and medicines our ancestors could only imagine. Now it’s our turn to dream. But what?
Moving from diagnosis to vision, Sylvie and Rufus engage in collective dreaming, sensing what wants to be born beyond modernity’s decline. Sylvie shares how observing wealthy but unhappy people, contrasted with her wise mother’s capacity for forgiveness and generosity, revealed that wisdom rather than wealth produces flourishing. Yet our culture rarely encourages its pursuit.
Key elements of the emerging paradigm include wisdom as a cultivated path, interbeingness extending to Earth and across generations, economy at the service of life, comfort with complexity and non-duality, return of the sacred in non-dogmatic forms, inner growth replacing material accumulation, integration of feminine power, and safeguards of non-dogmatism and non-oppression.
No perfect form exists. Every system has birth, growth, and decay. But dreaming is a muscle that shapes reality. These are the first rays of sun before full sunrise, an invitation to join the dreaming while remembering that pursuing tomorrow’s vision must not make today a nightmare.
Chapters
- 0:00:00Emerging Paradigms: The Second Renaissance
- 0:05:08The Role of Wisdom in Happiness
- 0:08:29Interbeingness: Connection to All Life
- 0:15:17Complexity and Non-Duality
- 0:28:34The Return of the Sacred
- 0:39:03Feminine Energy and Future Paradigms
Speakers
Sylvie Barbier is a co-founder of Life Itself, a performance artist, entrepreneur, and educator.
Rufus Pollock is a co-founder of Life Itself, an entrepreneur, activist, an author, as well as a long-term zen practitioner.
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