Anodea Judith – The Global Heart Awakens
Yes. Many people in the progressive movement see power as a bad thing, and that’s where movements become ineffective. The structures of power that we have in this culture actually get a lot done. The corporation is a very effective structure for accomplishing certain tasks: making products, distributing information, conducting research, etc. The trouble is that it’s not dedicated to a higher purpose, to a more benevolent value. Its basic assumption is that its need to be efficient in order to produce more goods, reward the stockholders, even if it devalues the people or the environment, and then it is not sustainable.
Martin Luther King said, “Power without love is reckless and abusive, but love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
So we don’t give up our power to get to love, we stand in it, and then reach for a higher principle.
You begin the book with the statement, “Evolution is the Gods’ way of making more gods.” That’s a powerful statement. Are we becoming gods at this time? Or is that where we’re going?
If we think of the divine as all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere present, then we are certainly approaching that on this planet, at first gradually, now moving more exponentially. We have the power to change the climate planet wide, we have the power to change the gene-pool, the pinnacle of 4 billion years of life’s evolution. We have the power to radiate the whole planet with nuclear weapons. We have the power to transplant limbs and hearts, send spacecraft out through the solar system. We have a system of knowledge and information that is now spreading the globe and can be accessed almost anywhere. These are powers that, for better or worse, are approaching the scale of gods.
