What Breaks Your Heart?
My brand new computer crashed! I am writing this on Lou Ann’s. We had another wonderful day of conscious cinema at the Illuminate film festival. The films were excellent and the filmmakers shared in question and answer sessions as well as reel healings. We had a program of conscious short films this morning. The first was Black Star which is a movie about the premature deaths of many entertainers. The filmmakers have formed a healing consortium of different facets to help artists with addictions. The second was Vision: Seeing is believing about a legally blind artist who has awesome talent and even more persistence. The third was about a fabulous fiddler/singer who has worked through physical handicaps using mindfulness.
Tonight we watched the inspiring movie, Live Your Quest. Then we were treated to a healing discussion with Tom Chi. He is a brilliant scientist and futurist. He said one way of approaching our current planetary dilemmas is to ask “What breaks Your Heart” Mine are: the disappearing rain forest and ocean coral. He said when he was born forty years ago the coral was at one hundred per cent and now it is at forty per cent. Others on my list, is the world’s poverty level, with most inhabitants living on a dollar a day. Then there is climate change and disappearance of the polar ice cap. Next is the slaughter of innocent animals both for sport and for food. The world’s water ways are polluted. Five hundred million straws are thrown away each day and the are filling up the oceans and harming ocean life. The opiod crises her in the United States. Our continued dependence on fossil fuels and stubborn resistance to using green energy like wind and solar and geothermal. Our general unconsciousness about all of this.
Let us all think about what breaks our hearts and get involved and create the most beautiful Earth possible for all of it’s inhabitants. Even if we all take the smallest steps in our own homes or communities. This will be our quest! That we cared enough to heal our fragile spacecraft for all generations to come! From my concerned heart to yours, Thomas