by Angeles Arrien What are the perennial Wisdoms? What are the roots beyond our cultural imprinting or family conditioning? What is the glue? What are the global “10 commandments”–the Universal Values? I have “uncovered” or “recovered” or “discovered” (from the vast pool of everything that has always been there, just waiting to be “remembered”), four global Universal Values: 1. Universal Value of a deep regard for life. (Thou shalt not murder.) 2. Universal Value to honor and respect what one has created for themselves. (Thou shalt not steal.) 3. Universal Value for Truth. (Thou shalt not lie.) 4. Universal Value for honoring established emotional relationship lines. (Thou shalt not rape.) Among the Basque people and among the majority of Native People of this land there […] Read More
