The coming fusion of science and religion, so deeply related to the sacred purpose of the human species, can also be understood in terms of the spirit of the gift.
If science is to seek the fulfillment of our role within a greater whole, then we must understand that within the question, “What have we to give to the world?” Ecology is a gift network, in which each organism and each species contributes to the environment. If we are no longer to see nature as an object, but to participate in it as ecological beings, then we must join that gift-giving network.
The gifts of mind and hand that make us human, the gift of life itself, enable us to participate in the ongoing process of creation. Whether you conceive of the Giver as God or the Universe our lives are a gift, and the way to pass on that gift is to live that life as beautifully as we are able.
To live in the gift means to approach each person and each choice with the attitude, "What can I create? What can I give?" The modern human, instilled with survival anxiety, protests, "What about me?" When we actually start living in the gift, we find that this protest is founded on an illusion.
"Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love." ~ Rumi
One Ledger, the foundation for an upcoming Currency of Cooperation, is a ledger of gifts that have been given in service to the One, Inc.co-op for co-creativity; a Potlatch of sorts.
Reflections
“Everything was always given to me and it made me a giver” ~ My Uber Driver
Context
Spirit of the Gift, The Ascent of Humanity by Charles Eisenstein
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