Nonviolence Radio, A Door Into Ocean
Channel: MettaCenter
Date: 2022-01-07

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Originally published 04/20/2021

0:00:00 Share the Day
0:03:33 Connections to Gene Sharp
0:06:12 Two Worlds in Conflict
0:09:00 Shora and Valan
0:12:03 What Does it Mean to be Human?
0:19:16 Self-Naming and the Language of Shora
0:21:36 A Door Into Ocean - Excerpt
0:23:53 Physics, Language, and Nonviolence
0:30:59 Complexity of Conflicts
0:36:02 Different Approaches to God and Spirituality
0:39:15 Nonviolence Report

“Share the Day” — this is a translation of a greeting from the ocean world of Shora, which was a world created by Joan Slonczewski. She’s a science fiction writer and professor at Kenyon College. This is from her 1986 novel “A Door into Ocean.” The book describes a society of people who are committed to nonviolence at a very, very deep level — and not just an emotional, sentimental kind of “do no harm” nonviolence, but one that is a really deeply transformed view of what it means to be human. And with that, what’s really at stake when we turn to or away from the nonviolent path.