Thread by @AlisonBlunt

1. Quote, 'So the R-I-G-H-T is kind of a substitute for the sacred R-I-T-E and becomes necessary, maybe only necessary, in the absence of sacred rites of initiation into society or into civility. That’s a really provocative idea because it then leads to the question: ..'

2. ..'In this time of disintegration of all of the social structures that allowed us to be initiated into something, how do we reconstruct a society that is civil in the sense that you’re talking about, in which we have something to be initiated into?'

3. Orland Bishop, 'So this is the framework. The civil rights movement had behind it a spiritual conception that they were not asking for something alone for themselves. They were also bringing something that was missing in the culture.' ..

4. ..'They were bringing civility to the culture which meant: can people acknowledge that power is not withholding, it’s actually sharing? If you want to develop power, you develop it in a collective sense, whereby the highest reaches of human aspiration ..' ..

5. ..'are in service to something that is sacred. So if I don’t make the other person’s needs sacred, I’m actually debilitating society. I’m creating frameworks of limitations, because the power that I see will remain political, but not become really social.' ..

6. ..'So the higher power in the culture is social. It’s not political or even economic.
So self-interest is actually a betrayal of the self at another level. When I take so much that my own potential gets underdeveloped. Greed is an underdevelopment of the human potential.' ..

7. ..'And in an intellectual society, in which the schooling of the intellect is for achievements for the self, it’s a critical danger when we do not have group aims as part of the exercise of education. Civics must be part of that education.' ..

8. ..'We must realize how to contribute to a greater societal good, in indigenous forms, and indigenous in this sense just means when people who are situated in the particular place realize that the ecology of that place gives each person a unique feeling ..' ..

9. ..'for what they can contribute to the emergence of what the place could inspire the group to share. An economy doesn’t have to be repressive.' ..

10. ..'There’s enough imagination in this framework for a deeper collaboration and abundance is possible in everything that a group of people can share.' ..

11. Quoting from a series of far-reaching recorded conversations between Charles Eisenstein and Orland Bishop soundcloud.com/charleseisenst…, soundcloud.com/charleseisenst… and soundcloud.com/charleseisenst…
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