Cards On Table I: Connection

Basic Concepts of Global Dialog: Connection The awareness of connection is primary. 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, and even 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 cknowledge our connectivity and effect on others, we are missing the fact that they too affect us, feed back on 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. And in doing this, 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 Global Dialog: 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.

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