{"id":1986,"date":"2023-11-13T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2023-12-03T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T16:58:41","slug":"seeking-higher-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=1986","title":{"rendered":"Seeking &#8220;Higher Ground&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan S: Stevie Wonder&#8217;s &#8220;Higher Ground&#8221; speaks to me as I find myself reacting to information and opinions to justify whatever side people want to sympathize with.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1997\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1997\" src=\"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Israel-and-Palestine-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Israel-and-Palestine-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Israel-and-Palestine-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Israel-and-Palestine-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Israel-and-Palestine.jpg 799w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banksy graffiti in Bethlehem(Flickr\/Gwen Fran)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Information, especially that which helps people see outside the bubbles they find themselves in, has its place. But Charles Eisenstein&#8217;s invitation to use COURAGE (the capacity of the heart) feels like &#8220;higher ground&#8221; to me. <a href=\"https:\/\/charleseisenstein.substack.com\/p\/whose-reality-is-it\">https:\/\/charleseisenstein.substack.com\/p\/whose-reality-is-it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hence my invitation to learn about the ongoing work to build bridges, to find better ways. One great source is this: <a href=\"https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/\" data-wplink-edit=\"true\">https:\/\/wagingnonviolence.org\/<\/a> . Let&#8217;s &#8220;keep on tryin&#8217; till [we] reach [our] highest ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan S: Stevie Wonder&#8217;s &#8220;Higher Ground&#8221; speaks to me as I find myself reacting to information and opinions to justify whatever side people want to sympathize with. Information, especially that which helps people see outside the bubbles they find themselves in, has its place. But Charles Eisenstein&#8217;s invitation to use COURAGE (the capacity of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-promote-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}