One of my favorite all time movies is Dances With Wolves. In it, there is a scene where a grieving woman whose husband was killed is told by the tribe Shaman/Elder "Your time for mourning is over", which signifies the time for her new life to begin. It is a profound moment in the film, and has stuck with me ever since I first saw it decades ago.
The collapse "movement" is rife with grieving, which is fair. Coming to grips with the collapse of global industrial civilization and the biosphere we all depend on for life is by no means child's play. It is intensely grief soaked to come to terms with. There is an unavoidable requirement to grieve. And yet, there is a time where the wise Shaman steps in and says, "The time for mourning is over." And new life begins.
That is Collapse Acceptance. That is the open door to the benefits that lead to wise responses to our predicament. That is enlightenment shining through these grief soaked times. To ignore it, is to miss the entire point of being here now.
Let go or be dragged.
Does letting go of grief mean no more sadness? No. Does it mean no longer caring about the tragedies unfolding everywhere? Nope. Does it mean not being loving enough if not grieving enough? Absolutely not.
What it does mean is that now there is a new way to live with it all. The work has been done to get comfortable with how uncomfortable it all is.
Like a rock carried in my backpack everyday, I feel it. But it doesn’t define my life.
Your time for mourning is over.
Now how shall you live?
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