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Humanity Rising Day 423 After Chat – Tuesday March 1, 2022
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Leo's notes from the Humanity Rising episode
From Alessandra Palange:
PRESS RELEASE: Green Letters to Imams: Mobilising Muslims around the World to Demand our World’s Leaders Take Real Action on Climate Change February 2022
THE NEW LAW WE NEED FOR CLIMATE & NATURE support The Climate and Ecological Emergency Bill (CEE)
Over the years, the Bahu Trust has developed a number of faith based resources for the Muslim community to inspire climate friendly and environmental behaviour. You can access those resources here.
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From Leo Jacoby:
- Signs on the Earth: Islam, modernity and the climate crisis. Kube Publishing Ltd.Nasr, S. H. (2019). ebook: ::https://book4you.org/book/17133494/09735a:: PDF, 1.95 MB DL In the same way that Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything presented the argument for environmental action in a Capitalist framework, Fazlun Khalid has written a book that demands action from those whose primary orientation is towards the Islamic faith.
- Religion and the Order of Nature. Oxford University Press (1996). ebook: ::https://book4you.org/book/965804/34d0f0:: PDF, 6.91 MB DL
1:26:33 Spirit & Nature June 5, 1991 Bill Moyers attends a conference at Vermont’s Middlebury College where voices from the world’s major religions address our responsibilities to the environment, the challenges of preserving it, and how to foster a greater understanding of spirit and nature.
This documentary weaves music, art, rituals and rich visuals with interviews and speeches from religious leaders including the Dalai Lama, feminist theologian Sallie McFague, Native American elder Audrey Shenandoah, Jewish historian Rabbi Ismar Schorsch, Islamic scholar Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr and ethicist Ronald Engle. We also hear from students and other conference participants.
Spirit and Nature Transcript excerpts:
SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR, Islamic Scholar: To be human, in a sense, is already to be semi-divine, in a sense, carrying the image of the divine. So whenever there's a great crisis afoot, whether there are comforts, where there are modes of knowing, man will always turn again to that treasure that is within himself.
SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR: Man cannot save the natural environment, except by rediscovering the nexus between the spirit and nature and becoming once again aware of the sacred quality of the works of the Supreme Artisan. And man cannot gain such an awareness of the sacred aspect of nature without discovering the sacred within himself or herself and ultimately to be sacred, as such.
SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR: In the name of God, the Most Merciful and Com-passionate--I've written a little meditation and two verses of Koran, which are as follows [reading] "It is true that we are travelers on this Earth, passing, like members of a caravan, for a few fleeting moments on this beautiful Earth, between the gates of life and death. But this enchanted nature which surrounds us in our earthly journey is not simply the background for the trajectory of our life. Nature is, above all, a reflection of the paradise whose memories we still bear in the depth of our soul and who beatitudes in Thy proximity we seek at the end of our journey of many days and nights. That is why only those of us whose inner being belongs to the paradisal abode can see Thy creation crowned in its paradisal aura, while those who have abandoned Thee and so reside in that hell which is none other than separation from Thee turn Thy creation into an inferno."
(For more excerpts see transcript at: ::https://billmoyers.com/content/spirit-nature/::)
End of Leo's Notes and the Begining of today's AfterChat
00:04:24 Kat: Have you done climate activations with Islamic teens?
00:06:06 Stanley Pokras: This is the AfterChat for Day 423
00:11:29 Shannon McArthur: Joanna Macy is wonderful!!
00:11:40 Shannon McArthur: Active Hope, by Joanna Macy
00:12:33 Brendan Keegan: yes it's Aasiya
00:16:57 Stanley Pokras: Are women more active in climate because women are the care givers of families and the world?
00:23:19 Leo Jacoby: Click above file to download (before chat closes) The 1991 conference with Bill Moyers is worth a look with quotes by Islamic scholar Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr.
00:23:41 Stanley Pokras: One of the most amazing presenters on Humanity Rising has been Anne Baring. In this talk, she describes the change in religious thinking that brought about the separation of the divine feminine from the masculine understanding of the cosmos… <nowiki>https://youtu.be/Cu2ZYsQcRh4?t=382::
00:32:12 Naseef Ahammed: Sorry, I need to leave now, but thank you so much for your beautiful thoughts and we have learned so much in the last two hours! God bless all of the beautiful minds here :)
00:33:45 Naseef Ahammed: muslimsdeclare@gmail.com
00:34:00 Aasiya Bora & Brendan Keegan: keegan.brendan@gmail.com
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