The history that we’ve been taught in our Western culture shows human beings to be basically bad. We do really lots of bad things, and our history is about all the bad things that we’ve done. What if, instead, from day one of our lives, every single one of us was taught that human beings are basically good because we are part of creation itself, but that it’s really easy for our concepts to go unharmonious and then then start destroying things around us? The history would be showing how to prevent ourselves from doing that… rather than what happens when we do go out of harmony.
– Telling a Longer Story –
It’s easy to rewrite human history, to rewrite the way we look at human history, to rewrite the stories we’ve been told, simply by putting ourselves into a longer timeline. When you really look at what we’ve learned from anthropology we see that human beings have been around 60,000 years. We’ve been almost evolved into what we are now for million years. During all that time, human beings lived harmoniously on the world and with each other. It’s only in this little tiny sliver of a few thousand years that we’ve turned very, very difficult. One of the easiest ways to reform the way we see ourselves is to start telling this longer story.