What is the Rainsnow Project?
The Rainsnow Project is a spiritual, social and cultural project which aspires to play an important role in the transformation of the earth.
It is a project whose starting point is the premise that our lives, our freedom, our dignity, our meaning and our promise as human beings, are all in danger of being stripped from us, as the dynamics of our civilization lead us towards emergencies of unparalleled magnitude in the not so very distant future.
It is a project which agrees with many of our world’s most alert and responsible observers, who have identified a plethora of dangers which could afflict us in days to come - dangers which could include: the threat of nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare; the threat of terrorism, and with it, the potential collapse of democracy; widening poverty; deepening divisions between classes and nations; growing political and economic instability; and ecological catastrophe.
It is a project which sees not only future threats to the survival of our civilization and way of life, but threats inherent in the survival of our civilization and way of life!
It is a project which considers our civilization to be driven by a set of social, psychological, and economic dynamics which have but a limited framework of operability, before the process of growth which they have unleashed reaches its emotional and material limits, engendering consequences which must seriously degrade, if not utterly overwhelm it.
It is a project which also considers our civilization - even at its zenith, before wounds of future disasters diminish it - to be a disaster, in and of itself. For the deepest needs of the human soul are starved here; and infinite varieties of injustice, solitude, and cruelty lurk within the texture of its triumphs.
This project, therefore, seeks to transform our civilization - to rescue that part of it that is life-giving, and to rescue ourselves from that part of it which is life-taking, and life-threatening. To create a survivable, sustainable, and moral civilization that is in harmony with our awakening spirits and our opening hearts: a civilization that does not undermine itself with self-destructive tendencies; a civilization that does not crush others in order to spoil itself; a civilization in which human beings are restored to the center, becoming not merely tools to build it up, but its principal reason for being.
The Rainsnow Project aims to grow where the individual search for truth, understanding, and spiritual discipline intersects the potential of collective effort. It aims to politicize and organize compatible elements of the New Age; and to personalize and spiritualize the realm of politics and social movements.
The Rainsnow Project seeks, as its first step, to identify, connect, and promote the development of THE PEOPLE who will lead the earth through the positive transformative process that, in one of its possible forms, is the only alternative to collapse and despair.
The Rainsnow Project is visionary, not locked into one time or place. Seeing beyond the day, it sees the need to act. And makes itself capable of acting.
Explained in more detail in The Message of Rainsnow - after its initial spiritual preparation in The Journey of Rainsnow - the Rainsnow Project philosophy is based upon principles of compassion, awareness and action; humility, and the development of the inner strength, and social solidarity, needed to meet the formidable challenges of the future.
The name for the Rainsnow Project comes not so much from my "spirit name" (see "The Rainsnow Books"/"More about the author of the Rainsnow Books"), as from the nature of the work to be done: for this is a world that needs us to find each other, to put our paths together into one great path, to become collectively alive; and then, to come into the world together, like raindrops, like snowflakes, which are nothing when they fall alone, yet change the earth when they fall together.
If you would like to play a part in the transformation and healing of our endangered world, through the work of the Rainsnow Project, please read on!