Darkness and light intermingle as we enter RadJoy

The future will require heroes and heroines who can cross willingly into challenging and unfamiliar places and get passionately involved with them.

These people will need to be modern shamans, those risk-takers in traditional cultures who leave the world of the everyday and enter the world of spirit, where they negotiate with illness and suffering and bring back answers, gifts, and healing to the village.

In a world that is likely to be slammed with weather of increasing ferocity, increased mining and drilling even as carbon dioxide suffuses the air, diminishing wilderness and vanishing species, and decreased access to clean water, individuals and communities will need help coping with the new reality. They'll need ways to discover meaning in the present, to love, to help others who are suffering even as they suffer themselves.

Crossing the boundary from an attitude of indifference, dislike, fear, or revulsion about wounded places and actually seeking those places out, getting reacquainted with them, and giving them beauty and attention is a way to begin making that shift.