Benjamin Fulford - April 6th 2015: Chinese bid to take over the world fails despite support for Chinese development bank

By Benjamin Fulford

A meeting last week between a representative of the Chinese Communist Government and of the White Dragon Family ended badly after the Chinese stated their goal was to take over control of the planet. They were told the Chinese account for at most a fifth of the world’s population so the best they could hope for was one fifth of world power.

The meeting took place April 4th, 2015 a day of great occult significance. As widely reported, on that day there was a blood moon lunar eclipse that coincided with the Jewish Pass Over holy day and the Christian Easter day of rebirth. This is all seen as a good omen for the West. For the Chinese, however,the fourth day of the fourth month means double death and is highly inauspicious. The Chinese representative was also unable or unwilling to visit the shrine to the Dragon God King of the White Waterfall (白瀧龍王神) where the meeting was supposed to take place. He seemed scared of it so, the meeting took place about 200 yards away from the shrine. This seems symbolic of how the Chinese push for world dominance fell short of its goal.

For sure, the Chinese have been on a roll and their big push in February and March of this year produced big results. The most significant was the agreement by major European powers and US allies to join China’s proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite US opposition. What some Chinese failed to understand is that supporting a Chinese infrastructure initiative is not the same as voting to become Chinese serfs.





China has become the world’s biggest economy and has made huge accomplishments in the past decades. They have lifted a record number of people out of poverty, poured an awful lot of cement, built great infrastructure around the world and produced vast quantities of cheap but high quality knickknacks.

The West, by contrast, has seen its economic base badly damaged because the highest levels of its government institutions were taken over by vicious and incompetent gangsters. The West also does feel a bit down-trodden by the recent shift in economic and industrial power to the East.

However, the gangsters are now being systematically purged from governmental control and as result, the West is about to experience a renaissance that will by far outdo the original.

Furthermore, a little bit of perspective is needed here to explain why the West cannot be written off. Let us talk about science and technology for example. We all know the Chinese invented gun-powder, the printing press and paper etc. but can you think of any world changing Chinese invention within the past 600 years? Did they invent the steam engine? The industrial revolution? Automobiles? Airplanes? Radios? Television? Computers?

Semiconductors? The internet? Even the LED lights they are now mass producing were invented by the Japanese. We hope soon to be awestruck by new Chinese inventions but they ain’t here yet.

Another thing the Chinese need to keep in mind before they start talking about world domination is how much they owe the West. The West provided them with technical knowledge, education, financial assistance and more to modernize their economy. They did this not just out of the profit motive but out of a sincere desire to see China modernize and become prosperous.

The West, for its part, needs to be eternally grateful to China for its help in purging our leadership of Khazarain (Hyksos) Satanists. The West also needs to be grateful for all the financial assistance the Chinese have provided.

Both East and West now need to look back at when the Chinese secret societies made a deal with the White Dragon Society and its allies to join the fight against the Satanists. The Chinese said they wanted to once again be the center of the world and were told this would happen only on the condition that they ended poverty and stopped environmental destruction.

The Chinese have done a lot against poverty, especially in China, but they are some of the world’s worst polluters and have a hideous environmental record. There is also a lot of poverty that still needs to be dealt with. The West can take pride in its efforts to stop environmental destruction but, they certainly take a back seat to the Chinese when it comes fighting poverty.

That is why East and West need to stop thinking in terms of who is in charge and instead form a 50/50 win/win relationship for the sake of the planet as a whole. This is what the proposed world federation is supposed to accomplish.

On that front, despite the Chinese over-reach, progress continues to be made towards reaching a final deal.

The Pentagon has proposed dividing the world into 9 regions instead of 7 because South America and Russia respectively want independence from North America and Europe. This is an issue that is open to debate and can be settled once the more crucial financial architecture is worked out.

On that front, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter is visiting Japan, South Korea and Sinpapore this week. The US also deployed warplanes in Taiwan to coincide with this visit. The idea is to remind the Chinese that if it ever came to war the US still has an overwhelming military advantage. For example, the Americans have energy weapons that would allow them to hit China with micro-waves thus causing every head in China to burst like an egg would in a microwave oven. They also have the technology to neutralize Chinese nuclear weapons. Of course this technology would never be used but merely serves as a reminder the US military industrial complex is proposing an alliance with China, not subservience to China.

It is also worth noting the US military is clearly aligning itself with the Iranians as their preferred partner in the Middle East. During the negotiations on Iran’s nuclear program, the Pentagon released detailed intelligence about Israel’s nuclear program. The message was clear, the Pentagon views Israel and not Iran as the real rogue nuclear threat in the Middle East.

US Senator Robert Menendez, until recently head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was indicted on charges of accepting bribes because he was a key member of the Khazarian faction that wanted to start World War 3, according to Pentagon sources. Visible actions like this make the ongoing purge of the Khazarians impossible to deny.

There is a lot less visible stuff also going on. For example, there was a mysterious attack on a Rockefeller facility last week. At the link below you can see a Rockefeller General Electric plant burning after what could only have been some sort of military attack.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-03/caught-tape-raging-fire-kentucky-ge-plant

Also last week Turkey experienced a nation-wide power outage that was clearly part of the ongoing covert war against the last Khazarian strongholds. It is not clear though which side attacked which in that event though.

Otherwise, the proxy war between the Iran/Pentagon alliance and the Saudi/Israeli faction cooled down somewhat last week. That was because representatives of both the Saudi faction and the Iranians contacted the White Dragon Society and were told the long Sunni/Shia divide had to be ended once and for all. Doing so would release vast funds for both sides, they were told. The Saudis were also told they had to remove the misogynist and other globally unacceptable elements of the Wahhabi doctrine if they wished for their regime to survive.

In Europe meanwhile, the thing to watch for this week is the April 9th IMF payment date the Greeks are expected to miss. If they miss it and go back to the Drachma then the European financial house of cards will suffer a fatal blow as Italy follows Greece. The only people who have the money to help the Greeks pay their bills are the Chinese. That is one of the main reasons why the British, Germans, French, Italians etc. agreed to join the Chinese led AIIB.

The Chinese though, as noted above, are not the real solution either. For that reason, they will probably kick the Greek can down the road yet again as they wait for a final settlement of the financial war. That will depend on the Chinese and Japanese agreeing to a compromise on who will control the proposed economic planning agency. That is because the Pentagon, the Swiss, the Vatican, the British etc. have already agreed to create such an agency and it is only the Chinese/Japanese split now standing in the way. The WDS is doing its bit to help by removing Khazarians from power in Japan to make sure a genuine Japanese voice speaks for Japan. That would open the door to compromise. The WDS also suggests selecting somebody from Singapore as the first head of the agency. That is because of Singapore’s successful planned transition from being one of the poorest backwaters on earth to being one of the richest nations on earth in a very short time.

The solution to the financial crisis and the beginning of a new age also await the arrival of certain promised documents.

250 MILLION YEAR-OLD STONE WITH MICROCHIP DISCOVERED

April 6, 2015 - Researchers have made another incredible discovery in Labinsk, Russia. According to scholars this discovery marks the beginning of a completely new history, one that many ancient alien theorists have been talking about for years. The object that researchers have found is believed to be some sort of ancient microchip and according to researchers, this ancient microchips dates back millions of years. After countless tests, researchers have come to the conclusion that this antique piece was used as some sort of microchip in ancient times.

The problem is its age, according to tests, the artifact is believed to be between 225 and 250 million years old. Some researchers believe that the dating of the artifact is not entirely accurate given the fact that you cannot date rock, and the tests were based on traces of organic material found around the mystery “chip”.



The million dollar question is, who and what used a microchip that dates back 250 million years? Is there a possibility that this is in fact the remains of ancient technology? Technology that belonged to a highly advanced civilization that inhabited Earth millions of years ago? Or is there a possibility that this artifact did not originate from Earth, but on another planet, belonging to an extraterrestrial race.

Better yet, what makes Russia so unique that numerous artifacts, like the one we see here, have been discovered over the years.

This “ancient microchip” was discovered in the Krasnodar region, and ufologists have already tagged this discovery as a fragment of technology previously unknown to science. Like many other discoveries, this remarkable artifact was found by chance by a local fisherman by the name of Viktor Morozov who donated his curious finding to scholars from the University of Southern Polytechnic Nowoczerkaskiej who performed several tests and concluded that embedded into the rock, is a strange “device” which strangely resembles modern-day microchips. Researchers have not tried removing the alleged microchip from the rock in fear that the might damage it.

Geologists and researchers cannot explain the origin of this fantastic finding and there are numerous possibilities that explain what this object is. Extraterrestrial technology, evidence of sophisticated ancient societies, or just one of those strange rocks made by mother nature. Some researchers point out that this might actually be part of a stem plant, such as lillies, skeptics have already “debunked” this finding suggesting that it is noting worth the while, just like many other discoveries which couldn’t be explained, so the best guess was… “its nothing important”, however the origin of this artifact, and many others also discovered in Russia have not been explained.

What do you believe this artifact is? Is it another rock, courtesy of mother nature? Or is this item, a microchip that belonged to an extraterrestrial race that visited Earth in the distant past?

http://www.disclose.tv/news/250_million_yearold_stone_with_microchip_discovered/116314#ixzz3WZ33WoEm

Iceland To Take Power To Create Money Away From Rothschild Cartel

http://www.conspiracyclub.co/2015/04/05/iceland-bank-rothschild/

Who knew that the revolution would start with those radical Icelanders? It does, though. One Frosti Sigurjonsson, a lawmaker from the ruling Progress Party, issued a report today that suggests taking the power to create money away from commercial banks, and hand it to the central bank and, ultimately, Parliament.

Can’t see commercial banks in the western world be too happy with this. They must be contemplating wiping the island nation off the map. If accepted in the Iceland parliament , the plan would change the game in a very radical way. It would be successful too, because there is no bigger scourge on our economies than commercial banks creating money and then securitizing and selling off the loans they just created the money (credit) with.

Everyone, with the possible exception of Paul Krugman, understands why this is a very sound idea. Agence France Presse reports:

Iceland Looks At Ending Boom And Bust With Radical Money Plan

Iceland’s government is considering a revolutionary monetary proposal – removing the power of commercial banks to create money and handing it to the central bank. The proposal, which would be a turnaround in the history of modern finance, was part of a report written by a lawmaker from the ruling centrist Progress Party, Frosti Sigurjonsson, entitled “A better monetary system for Iceland”.

“The findings will be an important contribution to the upcoming discussion, here and elsewhere, on money creation and monetary policy,” Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson said. The report, commissioned by the premier, is aimed at putting an end to a monetary system in place through a slew of financial crises, including the latest one in 2008.

According to a study by four central bankers, the country has had “over 20 instances of financial crises of different types” since 1875, with “six serious multiple financial crisis episodes occurring every 15 years on average”. Mr Sigurjonsson said the problem each time arose from ballooning credit during a strong economic cycle.

He argued the central bank was unable to contain the credit boom, allowing inflation to rise and sparking exaggerated risk-taking and speculation, the threat of bank collapse and costly state interventions. In Iceland, as in other modern market economies, the central bank controls the creation of banknotes and coins but not the creation of all money, which occurs as soon as a commercial bank offers a line of credit. The central bank can only try to influence the money supply with its monetary policy tools.

Under the so-called Sovereign Money proposal, the country’s central bank would become the only creator of money. “Crucially, the power to create money is kept separate from the power to decide how that new money is used,” Mr Sigurjonsson wrote in the proposal. “As with the state budget, the parliament will debate the government’s proposal for allocation of new money,” he wrote.

Banks would continue to manage accounts and payments, and would serve as intermediaries between savers and lenders. Mr Sigurjonsson, a businessman and economist, was one of the masterminds behind Iceland’s household debt relief programme launched in May 2014 and aimed at helping the many Icelanders whose finances were strangled by inflation-indexed mortgages signed before the 2008 financial crisis.

‘UFOs and Spirituality’ trailer (Part I): Behind the scenes with Japan’s Anemone magazine

By Jon Kelly
NewsInsideOut.com

Vancouver, B.C. – A new video trailer published to YouTube on April 5, 2015, offers viewers a tantalizing look behind the scenes with Japan’s Anemone magazine in the first of an exclusive two-part interview series featuring NewsInsideOut.com’s Jon Kelly. Part I of “UFOs and Spirituality” explores some of the people and issues behind the making of the mini-documentaries “UFO Mountain” and “Marfa Reflections,” released through NewsIO Plus earlier this year. During his wide-ranging interview the former CBS Radio feature producer and international clinician stated a belief that adventurers who cross the world to find UFO hotspots ultimately find themselves.

Topics covered in Part I of “UFOs and Spirituality” include meditation, journalism, Chinese internal energy arts, classical Yoga, the Yakima Lights, Mt. Adams and the ECETI Ranch, Sasquatch, Super Natural British Columbia, Canada’s Sonoran Desert, the Okanagan Lake Ogopogo cryptid, daylight UFOs over Dallas, the Marfa Lights, the 1974 Coyame, Mexico UFO crash incident and more. Part II of this series is scheduled for release later this month.

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"Being Free Together"

"When you regard disturbing emotions as emptiness, that becomes your path - on the other hand, if you indulge in disturbing emotions, it's like eating a poisonous plant. However, if you relax to your natural mind and look directly into the disturbing emotion, it can be liberating.

The more we live our lives tuning into dharma (the basic principles of cosmic or individual existence, divine law), we will find balance and spaciousness, letting go of thoughts until all that's left is awareness."

“Their Sky Has Changed!” Inuit elders sharing information with NASA regarding Earth’s “WOBBLE”

The Inuits are indigenous people that inhabit the arctic regions of Canada, the United States and Greenland and throughout history their very lives have been dependent on being able to correctly forecast weather.... and they are warning NASA and the world that global warming isn't the cause of what we are seeing with extreme weather, earthquakes and other events


The earth has shifted, tilted or as they put it, "wobbled" to the north and they all agree "Their sky has changed!"




The elders maintain the Sun doesn't rise where it used to, they have longer daylight to hunt and the Sun is higher than it used to be and warms up quicker than before. The elders who were interviewed across the north all said the same thing, their sky has changed.

The stars the Sun and the Moon have all changed affecting the temperature, even affecting the way the wind blows, it is becoming increasingly hard to predict the weather, something that is a must on the Arctic.

The elders all agree, they believe the Earth has shifted, wobbled or tilted to the North.

In an article in The Big Wobble Almanac, and in a video, we see some of the extreme weather events being attributed to this "wobble."

In the article it states that NASA scientists and experts are "worried" by the information the Inuit Elders are providing for them.


http://newspaper.indianlife.org/story/2015/01/05/News/%22Earth-has-shifted%22-Inuit-elders-issue-warning-to-NASA-and-the-world%C2%A0/582.html

Bigger Than Science, Bigger Than Religion

We’re closer to environmental disaster than ever before. We need a new story for our relationship with the Earth, one that goes beyond science and religion. 

The world as we know it is slipping away. At the current rate of destruction, tropical rainforest could be gone within as little as 40 years. The seas are being over fished to the point of exhaustion, and coral reefs are dying from ocean acidification. Biologists say that we are currently at the start of the largest mass extinction event since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. As greenhouse gases increasingly accumulate in the atmosphere, temperatures are likely to rise faster than our current ecological and agricultural systems can adapt.
  

It is no secret that the Earth is in trouble and that we humans are to blame. Just knowing these grim facts, however, won’t get us very far. We have to transform this knowledge into a deep passion to change course. But passion does not come primarily from the head; it is a product of the heart. And the heart is not aroused by the bare facts alone. It needs stories that weave those facts into a moving and meaningful narrative.

We need a powerful new story that we are a part of nature and not separate from it. We need a story that properly situates humans in the world—neither above it by virtue of our superior intellect, nor dwarfed by the universe into cosmic insignificance. We are equal partners with all that exists, co-creators with trees and galaxies and the microorganisms in our own gut, in a materially and spiritually evolving universe.

This was the breathtaking vision of the late Father Thomas Berry. Berry taught that humanity is presently at a critical decision point. Either we develop a more heart-full relationship with the Earth that sustains us, or we destroy ourselves and life on the planet. I interviewed the white-maned theologian (he preferred the term “geologian,” by which he meant “student of the Earth”) in 1997 at the Riverdale Center of Religious Research on the Hudson River north of New York City. Berry
spoke slowly and with the hint of a southern drawl, revealing his North Carolina upbringing.

"Every molecule in my body was birthed in a star hanging in space.”

“I say that my generation has been autistic,” he told me. “An autistic child is locked into themselves, they cannot get out and the outer world cannot get in. They cannot receive affection, cannot give affection. And this is, I think, a very appropriate way of identifying this generation in its relationship to the natural world.

“We have no feeling for the natural world. We’d as soon cut down our most beautiful tree, the most beautiful forest in the world. We cut it down for what? For timber, for board feet. We don’t see the tree, we only see it in terms of its commercial value.”



It is no accident that we have come to our current crisis, according to Berry. Rather, it is the natural consequence of certain core cultural beliefs that comprise what Berry called “the Old Story.” At the heart of the Old Story is the idea that we humans are set apart from nature and here to conquer it. Berry cited the teaching in Genesis that humans should “subdue the Earth … and have dominion over every living thing.”

But if religion provided the outline for the story, science wrote it large—developing a mind-boggling mastery of the natural world. Indeed, science over time became the new religion, said Berry, an idolatrous worship of our own human prowess. Like true believers, many today are convinced that, however bad things might seem, science and technology will eventually solve all of our problems and fulfill all of our needs.

Berry acknowledged that this naive belief in science served a useful purpose during the formative era when we were still building the modern world and becoming aware of our immense power to transform things.

Like adolescents staking out their own place in the world, we asserted our independence from nature and the greater family of life. But over time, this self-assertion became unbalanced, pushing the Earth to the brink of environmental cataclysm. The time has come to leave this adolescent stage behind, said Berry, and develop a new, mature relationship with the Earth and its inhabitants.

We’ll need to approach this crucial transition on many different fronts. Scientific research has too frequently become the willing handmaiden of what Berry called “the extractive economy,” an economic system that treats our fellow creatures as objects to be exploited rather than as living beings with their own awareness and rights. Moreover, technology, in Berry’s view, potentially separates us from intimacy with life. We flee into “cyberspace”— spending more time on smart phones, iPods, and video games than communing with the real world.

"A little god locked within the gated community of his or her own skull won’t feel much responsibility for what goes on outside.”

Science and technology are not the problem. Our misuse of them is. Berry said that science needs to acknowledge that the universe is not a random assemblage of dead matter and empty space, but is alive, intelligent, and continually evolving. And it needs to recognize that not only is the world alive, it is alive in us. “We bear the universe in our beings,” Berry reflected, “as the universe bears us in its being.” In Berry’s view, our human lives are no accident. We are the eyes, the minds, and the hearts that the cosmos is evolving so that it can come to know itself ever more perfectly through us.

It’s a view that has been winning some surprising adherents. Several years ago, I had dinner with Edgar Mitchell, one of only a dozen humans who have walked upon the lunar surface. Mitchell, the descendant of New Mexico pioneers and an aeronautical engineer by training, spoke precisely and almost clinically—until he related an experience that happened on his way back to Earth during the Apollo 14 mission. At that point, his voice brightened with awe.

“I was gazing out of the window, at the Earth, moon, sun, and star-studded blackness of space in turn as our capsule slowly rotated,” he said. “Gradually, I was flooded with the ecstatic awareness that I was a part of what I was observing. Every molecule in my body was birthed in a star hanging in space. I became aware that everything that exists is part of one intricately interconnected whole.”

Genesis Farm founder, Sister Miriam MacGillis: “We need to realize that we are the universe in the form of the human.”
Photo by Stephen O'Byrne / YES!

The Overview Effect

In a recent phone chat, Mitchell called this realization “the Overview Effect,” and he said that virtually all of the moon astronauts experienced it during their flights. In his case, it changed the direction of his life: “I realized that the story of ourselves as told by our scientific cosmology and our religion was incomplete and likely flawed. I saw that the Newtonian idea of separate, independent, discrete things in the universe wasn’t a fully accurate description.”

In pursuit of a holistic understanding, Mitchell founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) to explore the nature of human consciousness. The question of consciousness might seem remote from issues like climate change. But it is central to the question of how we treat the world. At the core of our abuse of nature is the belief that we humans are essentially islands unto ourselves, alienated from the world beyond our skins. A little god locked within the gated community of his or her own skull won’t feel much responsibility for what goes on outside.

“The classical scientific approach says that observation and consciousness are completely independent of the way the world works,” IONS Chief Scientist Dean Radin told me. But physics has known for decades that mind and matter are not as separable as we once supposed. Radin cites as an example Heisenberg’s discovery that the act of observation changes the phenomenon that is being observed.

Moreover, quantum physics has shown that subatomic particles that are separated in space are nevertheless responsive to one another in ways that are not yet fully understood. We are discovering that there is “some underlying form of connection in which literally everything is connected to everything else all of the time,” asserts Radin. “The universe is less a collection of objects than a web of interrelationships.”

As we come to grasp how inextricably embedded in this vast web of cosmic life we are, Radin hopes that humans will be persuaded to move beyond the idea of ourselves as masters and the world as slave to embrace an equal and mutually beneficial partnership.

Another prophet of a new scientific paradigm is renowned Harvard biologist Edward (E.O.) Wilson. Wilson is best known for his biophilia hypothesis, which says there is an instinctive emotional bond between humans and other life forms. Evolution has fostered in us the drive to love and care for other living beings, Wilson says, as a way to promote the survival not just of our own kind but of life as a whole.

Darwin’s theory of natural selection is invoked to argue that we humans are conditioned by nature to struggle tooth and nail for access to limited resources. But Wilson contends that evolution does not just promote violent competition but also favors the development of compassion and cooperation—traits that serve the interests of the group as a whole.

He calls this radical new idea “group selection.” Groups of altruistically inclined individuals have an evolutionary advantage over groups that are composed of members pursuing only their own survival needs. This collective advantage, he argues, has helped to promote powerful social bonds and cooperative behaviors in species as diverse as ants, geese, elk, and human beings.

“We need to realize that ... we are not just on Earth to do good ecological things."

In championing the evolutionary importance of love and cooperation in the flourishing of life, Wilson is not just revolutionizing biology. He is also venturing into territory usually occupied by religion. But, like Berry, Wilson argues that we need a story that cuts across traditional boundaries between fields to present a new, integral vision. “Science and religion are two of the most potent forces on Earth,” Wilson asserts, “and they should come together to save the Creation.”

A thousand-year worldview

At its heart, the new story that Wilson and Berry advocate is actually a very old one. Indigenous spiritual traditions taught that all beings are our relatives long before the science of ecology “discovered” the seamless web of life that binds humans to other creatures. “The world is alive, everything has spirit, has standing, has the right to be recognized,” proclaims Anishinaabe activist and former Green Party candidate for vice president Winona LaDuke.

“One of our fundamental teachings is that in all our actions we consider the impact it will have on seven generations,” LaDuke told an audience at the University of Ottawa in 2012. “Think about what it would mean to have a worldview that could last a thousand years, instead of the current corporate mindset that can’t see beyond the next quarterly earnings statement.”

When LaDuke speaks of Native values, people sometimes ask her what relevance these have for us today. She answers that the respect for the sacredness of nature that inspired people to live in harmony with their environment for millennia is not a relic of the past. It is a roadmap for living lightly on the Earth that we desperately need in a time of climate change.

This ethic has spread beyond the reservation into religiously inspired communities, like Genesis Farm, founded by the Dominican Sisters of Caldwell, New Jersey. Set on ancestral Lenape lands amidst wooded hills and wetlands and within view of the Delaware Water Gap, Genesis has served for the last quarter century as an environmental learning center and working biodynamic farm grounded in Berry’s vision.

I spoke to the community’s founder Sister Miriam MacGillis, a friend and student of Berry, in a room studded with satellite images of the farm and its bioregion. MacGillis told me that she underwent decades of struggle trying to reconcile Berry’s 13-billion-year vision of an evolutionary cosmos with the ultimately incompatible biblical teachings that “creation is finished: Humans were made, history began, there was the fall, and history will end with the apocalypse.” She says, “The pictures I had of God were too small, too parochial, too much a reflection of the ways humans think. We made God in our image!”

Taking the long view fundamentally transforms the basis for environmental action, says MacGillis: “We need to realize that we are the universe in the form of the human. We are not just on Earth to do good ecological things. That is where the religious perspective takes us with the stewardship model—take care of it; it’s holy because God made it. That hasn’t worked real well … The idea of stewardship is too small, it’s too human-centered, like we can do that. It’s really the opposite. Earth is taking total care of us.”

Genesis Farm has propagated these ideas through its Earth Literacy training, which has now spread to many places throughout the world. Their work is a small part of a larger greening of religion, says Yale religious scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-creator with Brian Swimme of Journey of the Universe, an exhilarating trek through time and space portraying an evolutionary universe.

Tucker expects that the upcoming encyclical on climate change and the environment that Pope Francis will issue in early 2015 will be “a game changer” for Catholics. She adds that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has also been outspoken, labeling crimes against the natural world “a sin.” The Dalai Lama, for his part, has been speaking about the importance of safeguarding the environment based on Buddhism’s sense of the profound interdependence of all life. China has recently enshrined in its constitution the need for a new ecological civilization rooted in Confucian values, which preach the harmony between humans, Earth, and Heaven.

“All civilizations have drawn on the wisdom traditions that have gotten people through death, tragedy, destruction, immense despair,” says Tucker, adding that we are currently in a perilous rite of passage. “We will need all of the world’s religions to help as well as a shared sense of an evolutionary story to get us through this.”

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Richard Schiffman wrote this for Together, With Earth, the Spring 2015 issue of YES! Magazine. Richard is an environmental journalist whose work has been featured on National Public Radio, in The Guardian, The Atlantic, and many other publications. He is the author of two biographies, and a poet whose collection What the Dust Doesn’t Know is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry.