Connecting-Intro

> Connecting: a primary catalyst for change
> The awareness of connection is primary.
> We all exist in an interconnected web - of information and
> energy, of resources and trade, of cultural exchange and human interaction,
> of feedback and interdependencies.
> Most deeply, we are connected by the planetary web of All
> My Relations - the ecological and energetic interactions which bind us and
> bond us to all other creatures and beings, to the natural processes and flows,
> on this our home planet.
> As the Navaho medicine man said when told about the Internet:
> 'Ah, I see, you are making an external network that will help you see the
> invisible network that has always existed.'
> Making the invisible connections visible is part of the task of the
> Global Dialog Project. In assuming we are not interdependent,
> in refusing to acknowledge our connectivity and effect on others, we are
> missing the fact that they too feed back upon and affect us. It is possible
> therefore for us to destroy our system, not knowing that we have set the
> destructive events in motion. By simply not "getting" our connection in
> this web, we short-circuit our ability to prevent our own destruction and the
> destruction of the planet's ecological network. Further, we prevent our own
> evolution into a form of system beneficial for us all, that will enable us as
> individuals or cultures to express our true potential.
> This, then, is a primary goal of GlobalDialog: to understand the nature and
> importance of our connection to all on this planet, and thus choose our actions
> with that understanding in mind. It is time to dispel the illusion of separation
> that constrains our realization, and our compassionate and evolutionary actions.