A more beautiful society is possible! We need not accept what the rich and powerful peddle as the “natural order.” Hierarchy, inequality, supremacy, and class privilege are made possible by human design put in place and maintained as the “American Scheme.” This invention we can undo and replace to benefit all of us.
NATURE cradles every social system, which embeds economics and politics. In nature, there is music for those who listen, beauty for those who look for it, and belonging for those who choose to feel it. “We are nature” dispels the idea of separation from and being above it. Our inherent relationship in nature compels stewardship for our well-being.
AWE incites wonder of how our true nature has been distorted, disregarded, and distanced from who we are, blind to our own well-being and survival. What we do to Earth we do to ourselves is self-evident.
Extractive economics, exploitation of land, commodifying earthly gifts, human community, and labor without return, continues with reckless abandon.
BIOMIMICRY is the science of imitating natural designs, structures, and processes. Connectivity replaces separation, cyclical processes take over the linear, restorative, and regenerative practices supplant extraction, exploitation, and waste. Nature’s experience of 3.8 billion years holds solutions to human problems.
CREATIVITY is a gift of being human! Imagination breaks through predefined processes to arrive at novel solutions. Divergent thinking generates new ideas to create new possibilities. Convergent thinking focuses on problem-solving to find better outcomes. We have the power to redesign social organization for optimum benefit of everyone.
TRANSCENDENCE evokes awe and wonder in moving away from self and separation toward a deeper connection into wholeness of being, vast and magical. The fixed, physical, sensory, and sequential perception of the world dissolves into oneness of belonging with all other living entities, interdependent, interacting and flowing.
Harold Honkola
Stillwater