{"id":2006,"date":"2011-10-28T09:34:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2011-12-24T19:57:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-25T00:57:35","slug":"the-world-wide-sacred-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2006","title":{"rendered":"The World-wide Sacred Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImagine for a moment a world-wide sacred civilization.\u00a0 Imagine people living in harmony and goodwill with their neighbors, and in a state of material prosperity.\u00a0 Imagine people having satisfying work to do, and having time for artistic pursuits or games or sports or just interesting visits with each other.\u00a0 Imagine being able to travel anywhere on the planet, without passports and without fear, not\u00a0 because a homogeneous civilization has been imposed by a planetary state, but because people are in touch with their universal kinship.\u00a0 Imagine that when you went to different parts of the world you found people and clothing and food and music that were different from what you had at home.\u00a0 And imagine that all of this was founded on a sense of reverence and joy in living on the earth and sharing the cycles of the seasons.\u00a0 If this description touches a chord within you, if you find yourself saying \u201cYes, this is the way it\u2019s supposed to be,\u201d then you can attest to the archetype of the planetary sacred civilization as part of your own heritage.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beverlywoods.net\/fhmbook\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Feminine of History is Mystery<\/a>, p 122.<br \/>\n(That was written before 1984.\u00a0 If I were writing it now, I would add \u201cand dances\u201d to the list of things we\u2019d find in different places, and I would add \u201cbeing in nature\u201d to the list of what we\u2019d have time for.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cImagine for a moment a world-wide sacred civilization.\u00a0 Imagine people living in harmony and goodwill with their neighbors, and in a state of material prosperity.\u00a0 Imagine people having satisfying work to do, and having time for artistic pursuits or games &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=2006\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}