{"id":768,"date":"2015-04-08T01:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/?p=768"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:35:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T22:35:25","slug":"being-moved-from-entitlement-to-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/being-moved-from-entitlement-to-enlightenment\/","title":{"rendered":"Being moved from Entitlement to Enlightenment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-enlightened-consumer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-771 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-enlightened-consumer-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"2014 enlightened-consumer\" width=\"500\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-enlightened-consumer-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-enlightened-consumer-320x172.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-enlightened-consumer-145x78.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-enlightened-consumer-495x267.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-enlightened-consumer.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><strong><em>An article\u00a0by Jonathan Stein<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sadly, most people in the western world remain in denial of their inherent interconnection with all of life, merely through their avoidance of anything that remotely reminds them of their mortality (pain, discomfort, suffering, etc.), and they endure, much to the detriment of The Whole, self-selectively abdicating the responsibilities of their true nature as rescuers with a deep and powerful purpose. Instead, most wait, hoping that somebody or something \u201cout there\u201d will come and make everything all better again. \u00a0Awakening in this time of crisis requires a more courageous response. It involves choosing to become conscious of the deleterious effects of one\u2019s own sense of entitlement and how it is contributing to destroying life on planet Earth.&#8221; &#8211; <em>Jonathan Stein<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the article here &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/being-moved-from-entitlement-to-enlightenment.pdf\">being moved from entitlement to enlightenment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article\u00a0by Jonathan Stein &#8220;Sadly, most people in the western world remain in denial of their inherent interconnection &#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/being-moved-from-entitlement-to-enlightenment\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,172,4,221],"tags":[191,60,280,281],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-comment","category-links","category-reflection","tag-disconnection","tag-ecopsychology","tag-enlightenment","tag-holism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4azYr-co","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecopsychology.org\/gatherings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}