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Excerpt from interview.....
Rhonda Anderson--- " I am so in love with Mother Earth,
the forests, the plants and the beautiful flowers."( as she gestures to the
vase of flowers between her and Ken)
Ken Carey --- "Grown in your own garden which is very
neat".
Rhonda--- "Yes, I think when we appreciate Mother
Earth she shows back to us…"
Ken---"Yes."
Rhonda---"she gives back to us"
Ken---"The earth has been longing for people like us .
The earth has been desiring people that can see her gifts, her beauty for what
they truly are; and when one comes along that can truly resonate with a
biosphere, a bio-region, an area of earth, there is a synthesis. We become like a
spokesperson, not only for that region, but for the many lifeforms that cannot speak for themselves. I think this
is one of our primary
human roles in the immediate future of earth's transition. We need to give voice to
the Redwoods, to the Brazilian Rainforest....."
Rhonda---"Yes, Indeed."
Ken---" to many of the endangered species that cannot
speak for themselves. Not just in a us/them way, but by literally becoming
them because we love them so fully and completely that we know that we are
fingers on the same hand. They're an expression of the same grounded being
expressing in us. To know another creature, another life form, a mineral, a
plant in that way...hmm is to know it from the inside. We do have the ability to
translate they're thoughts, they're awareness, they're perceptions,
they're unique gifts into human language This would make a case for why there
might be another use for the Amazon Basin than for toilet paper. I get
passionate about this!
Rhonda---"Well indeed you
should! I love the statement you made that your life changed when you began to
look at the planet as a single living organism. So indeed we should be
passionate about it because we are a single living organism"
Ken---"It is, but I would like to clarify that a little
bit. The intellectual concept is like accepting the idea as a sort of working
hypothesis that the earth is a single organism and that we are parts of
everything that we perceive, we are all connected..... ……pause…
That's nice,
it's like someone has the key, it opens your mind and your heart to the
experience but what is really Tran formative, what is revolutionary, what is going to make the third
millennium radically different from anything that has ever happened before is the
EXPERIENCE, the actual experience of knowing that everything you perceive is a
part of the same grounded being that is also manifested, that your
connected..... a part of a interwoven fabric of life. There are no
words for it! In my book the Flat Creek Journal I do my best to just hint at
what is the experience but that experience constantly changes! Talk about a sensual
universe…..when you look out…...I write in another book about experiencing a
river valley, the hills and the forest as if it were my own skin.
Rhonda----"Yes, yes please go
on.
Ken---"and the animals were,
like, walking along my skin, the river was the arteries and the blood. When you have that experience, it is not just an idea that
sounds good or some Ecology or Biology teacher has convinced you of its importance.. you don't go out clear cut the river valley. You treat it a little
differently."
Rhonda---"Oh, no, no. Absolutely!"
Ken---"It does not mean we can not use paper products but there has to
be a balance. Let us just say we are way out of balance now."
Rhonda---"But I do believe we are striving for the balance. Is there a
particular time in history or in one's evolution that is better to enter into a
higher state of consciousness?"
Ken---"There is only one time and that is now, there is not any other
time. We make excuses and I have been guilty of this too. We want to do this
first we want to get this together, we want to prepare a little better, but the
only time to make that leap in consciousness "the transformation" is
Now. The present moment contains all of eternity. The past and the future are
spin-offs of the now. There is no better time than now."
Rhonda---"How can we know God's love?"
Ken---"By being present, in the presence of God, which is the present
moment, which is now."
One of my favorite lines from The Third
Millennium" There is no place
where the presence of God is not; there are only people who are not fully
present. You only have to be fully present to know all you need to
know."
Rhonda---"That is beautiful!"
I want to thank you for joining us on A Different Perspective."
Ken---"My pleasure."
Rhonda---"It has been my pleasure, goodnight."
End of excerpt.
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