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Gordon Kubanek | Beyond Denial – a Franciscan Perspective | 2023-08-02 CACOR Zoom
August 2, 2023 @ 13:30 - 16:00 EDT
Speaker: Gordon Kubanek
Topic: Beyond Denial – a Franciscan Perspective
Time: Aug 2, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary
We will explore how the path set by St. Francis can help us walk between the twin catastrophes of Denial & Doom, with the goal of once again becoming “Indigenous”. Most people are now in denial, but this only ensures collapse will happen but there is also a growing number of people who see collapse as inevitable and have become “Doomers” whose resignation only ensures that their belief becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. We will consider a third alternative belief that becoming “Indigenous” is really a “Homecoming” and is a path to a way of living that our current civilization needs to learn from so it can evolve into a life-sustaining culture. This presentation is part 2 of Social Density Stress from July 19 CACOR Zoom my wife & I did. In that presentation, we focused on our inner psychological life as an essential ingredient in our response to our life-threatening destruction of the Natural world and now go much deeper. Philosophical and Theological ideas from the Franciscan tradition are presented as one way that we can build a bridge to the kind of culture we need to survive, with the understanding that our current version of culture rooted in an industrial-capitalist paradigm cannot survive in its current form.
Bio
Gordon Kubanek is a long-term CACOR member and Chemical Engineer who spent most of his life as a High School Physics teacher. In 1999 he took a year-long distance course on System Dynamics modeling [the simulation method used in “Limits the Growth”] from MIT and used these skills as a consultant for the Department of National Defence. When he became very ill from a virus 20 years ago, and could barely walk for 2 years, he began exploring his “inner” life and what “really mattered”. After that “Dark Night of the Soul” he became a seven-time Green Party candidate, CACOR member, beekeeper, and Third Order Franciscan with the goal to try his best to preserve our Mother Earth so that his kids and grandchildren could live as rich a life as his. He lives with his wife in the countryside south of Ottawa.