Rob Brezsny with his wife, Ro Loughran

I often turn to Rob Brezsny for a spiritual perspective on this experiment we've named humanity. Last week he voiced a question I am asking:

"Do we dare celebrate anything at all in the face of the teeming mobs that proudly proclaim their support for the ever-more bloated malfeasance of misogynistic patriarchy and plutocracy and militarism and racism and bigotry?"

His answer to himself was very reassuring.

"After much meditation, here's what I concluded: No matter what the state of the world might be, it's my pragmatic job and my soul task to perpetrate regeneration and awakening and inspiration and liberation."

This article comes in two parts, a poem that declares that "overthrowing the psychopathic leaders is not enough. Protesting the well-dressed planet-rapers is not enough. We cannot afford to be consumed with our anger; cannot be obsessed and possessed by their danger."

The second is an essay, Subversive, Transformative, Liberational Hope, that articulates why it makes "logical or soulful sense to embrace crafty optimism and radical hope now."

ARTICLE: This is Perfect Moment