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SPIRITUAL

The Spiritual Dimension of Save our World

Simply stated, the spiritual dimension is about what anything is, who we are - and our awareness of who we are. It is concerned with identity, and the perennial questions of: why are we here, on this Earth at this time, and what is the purpose of our lives, individually and collectively. We cannot avoid having mental concepts about our identity, and predominantly identify ourselves, in our minds, to the confines of our bodies, at any rate throughout Western cultures.

However, Eastern philosophy teaches that this limited view of the self is an illusion, and that we are really one with, and so actually, everything. In Save our World, we consider this second understanding to be vitally important to developing all-inclusive values at the present time, to succeed that of exclusive, limited, self-interest. For this limited view lies at the root of the environmental and related crises that are breaking out all around us, and threatening the survival of human and many other life forms.

When the inclusive perspective is applied to the Principles on our fliers and web-site, the significance of ‘stating our truth’ is grounded in the intuitive certainty of acting from the state of the expanded Self, as just described. To state with awareness one’s dissent from political expediency, half-truths and ‘spin’ is considered to be a compassionate spiritual activity. So also is ‘standing one’s ground’ when, for example, ‘pressing the government to halt exploitation of the environment in the pursuit of profit, corporate power and international trade’.

Under Increasing Awareness and Compassion, the act of regarding ‘our world as our larger body and our home’ implies the holistic vision of being ‘one with everything’. When a spiritual Master’s blessings were sought on the formation of Save our World in meditative visualisation, her action was simply to look out of her window at nature and say: ‘Just love it!’ - and this is the only instruction she has given to date. In a public talk, in response to someone who sought her blessings on protecting a particular endangered species, she said: ‘The heart is an endangered species’.

We interpret this to mean that no amount of technique, strategy, change in political structure or reasoning will achieve anything without deep and loving caring. Andrew Harvey stresses this message over and over again in his book The Way of Passion. So, too, did Saint Paul in his famous passage in The Letter to the Corinthians.

The same theme is developed in ‘celebrating and cherishing our World’s beauty, diversity and radiance’. It also underlies our on-line campaign to Value Life Itself Above All Else !!!

The focus on creating and performing on the highest possible level of love and consciousness, and raising the recipients’ state of being thereby, is sought in everything we do.
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