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Cultivating political renewal - by Michael Draskovic

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The same rigorous honesty that freed me from addiction is the very same Sankofa that can free a nation from its original sin. This is the purpose of spiritual initiation—to move from being a shell of a person, or the shell of a civilized nation, to becoming a real human, a real community bound by the unbreakable truth of Ubuntu—I am because we are. I’ve just started Judith von Halle’s autobiography Swan Wings and it’s a remarkable exploration of phenomenological experiences of consciousness. Judith had her spiritual awakening at the age of two, and she documents her experience growing up consciously developing both sensory and super-sensory capacities side-by-side, each in light of the other. It’s an excellent complement to accounts of blind children having their sight restored (learning sensory capacities out of waking consciousness) and p… “Every person’s history should be a Bible – will be a Bible.” —Novalis “Don’t judge the possibilities of what can be based on circumstances.” —Aqu

If politics had become a source of harmony among people, flourishing cultures, and ecological health, how would this metamorphosis have likely taken place? This question prompts us to imagine a process of positive political transformation, of changing people, nations, cultures, and ecosystems, developing from one state into another. How we imagine this process, and whether we even believe in its possibility, reveals our capacity to perceive transformations, and with it, our capacity to contribute to them. These two capacities, which may initially appear unrelated, are in fact one and the…

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