THE QUESTIONS WE CARRY

Eleven questions that started it all.

The Canadian Sacred Commons Foundation is born directly from a series of questions about Love, Fear, power, and the systems that shape our world.

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THE QUESTIONS ALONG THE WAY

1. 02 Why does Love feel taboo? Turn over 02In the most powerful and privileged systems and spaces that shape our world today—even in philanthropic and humanitarian systems designed to alleviate suffering—why does naming and applying Love as the organizing principle feel taboo?
2. 03 Fear, or Love? Turn over 03Why do we more naturally invest in institutions and policies organized around Fear (such as military departments, counterintelligence systems, and counterterrorism policies), while investments organized around Love (such as mindfulness departments, inner-work schools, and policies on compassion and abundance) are seen as unrealistic, naive, or of marginal benefit?
   
   Why is a Department of War "less cringey" than a Department of Love?
3. 04 Belonging to the Earth Turn over 04 How do we remember our belonging to the Earth, to help us restore, renew, and regenerate?
4. 05 The emergent edge Turn over 05 How do we move to the emergent edges of our own becoming, to untether from patterns of the past, and create a future from presence, awe and wonder, and courage?
5. 06 Play and failing forward Turn over 06 How do we liberate ourselves to invite play, adventure, and experimentation, and failing forward, to help radically new solutions come to life?
6. 07 Worlds in relationship Turn over 07 What might occur if the human, ecological, digital, and spirit worlds were held in relationship rather than in separation?
7. 08 Young people leading Turn over 08 What becomes possible when young people lead frontier inquiries into the most profound questions of self and the universe, and act from what they discover?
8. 09 Loving those we’ll never meet Turn over 09What does it mean to Love those we will never meet—human and more-than-human life?
9. 10 Love as action Turn over 10What kind of world do we build when Love is not viewed as passive, but active?