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Freelance writer April Thompson covers environmental and community issues, travel, and spirituality. Her work has appeared in Hope, Natural Home, Via, and many other magazines. She also mentors young writers through a literary website developed by San Francisco teens. When it comes to her own spirituality, she has sampled everything from Native American sweat lodges to Southern Pentecostal revivals, but always finds herself returning to the simple breath of Buddhism. She lives in San Francisco.
It’s always a good time to ask ourselves what kind of world we want to live in. There is a future clearly laid out for us in which decision-making power belongs to those who have the money, and their decisions will support short-term profit value, making every other human and natural value subordinate to it. We will have less and less freedom, less and less of the services we need to sustain life and community, less and less of all the things people really care about and love.
March 2003Undoubtedly, the transcendent experience — whatever its source — is the most important experience that a human being can have, because it opens up the certainty that the other world is more real than our quotidian world, in the same way that sunlight is more fundamental than the shadows it casts.
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