| At one level, 'The New Greening' is the title of my forthcoming book. It's also an organizing-title for an emerging project and body of work, as part of The Sophialon.
At a deeper level, it's a remembrance, a restoration of a Wholeness that we've known and yearned for, but that we've forgotten. It's a way of being at our most natural and whole state. It's who, and how, we truly are.
In our pervasive Western culture, 'green', like 'value' and 'worth', has become associated with money, and the power that we've associated as coming from it. So 'green' in this context becomes associated with envy, as in 'green with envy'.
The New Greening goes beyond what we've come to know as 'going green' or 'being green', as it relates to adopting eco-friendly or environmentally friendly practices like recycling, repurposing, and reusing, though those are certainly practices that correlate to The New Greening. This is a much bigger reclamation project!
The New Greening is very much about human beings reclaiming our humanity, our wholeness, our connection to others and the true source of real power, and bringing that through us into the world in various ways.
It's about allowing the waters of spirit and wisdom to moisten, fertilize and make green once more those areas within us -- and thus around us -- that have become barren, dry, brittle, and hard through imbalance. The New Greening is about those deserts being moistened so that they bloom once more.
From ancient wisdom, applied anew from our times, we remember the ways to 'green' ourselves, and we take that 'greening' into all that we do. We reclaim our own magic and power that we've given to False Gods that operate through fear to distance us from our authentic selves, our wholeness, our creativeness.
With a new greening, we reclaim the gifts of wholeness, compassion, focused intention, vision, imagination, and other co-creative powers to create that which is Life-affirming, beauty and joy supporting. We reclaim the wholeness that we are.
As Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th century Abbess who wrote and taught about Viriditas -- greening -- said, "Part of the terror is to take back our own listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light."
Once newly greened and standing in our own light, we're able to come into truly conscious relationship, communication, creation, 'holographic' business, and the use of power that operates with, not against or at the expense of, other people, beings, and the environment.
Who knows where this work will lead? It builds on the foundation of eons of wisdom and those who held and carried and shared that wisdom. It begins with, and within, each of us taking back our listening, using our voice, seeing our light.
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