I just re-read a book from college, but its impact on me was much greater the second time around. The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom Hartmann is an awakening to the destruction our Younger Culture is creating and how the devastating effects will happen in our lifetime. Hartman has sat with members of Older Cultures and learned about the disconnection humans have from themselves, one another and Nature.
One story he shared of his experience with a Northern Native American Healer was that in this village there was a cradle to grave security among all the people. This man would be judged by the outside world as “poor”. Our society and culture values things/goods/money as wealth. This belief in Older Cultures is viewed as insane. This man did not review his credit score, value his life by what he owned, or make his life quest about obtaining more. His wealth came from a core oneness with all the people around him. He cared for them and they cared for him. No one was diseased with insecurity. They all had an investment in one another’s well being.
Just that belief alone has the power to change the world.