THE HARMONY GAZE

One of the most touching testimonials about the impacts of the Harmony Education came from a retired primary school teacher Mgoma Faustine, from Bunda near Lake Victoria who told me:   " After joining Tuko Sawa Society of Harmony Practitioners in 2020, I began to see value in what I was doing in my life and it gave me confidence to continue appreciating what I had. More importantly, I was emboldened to address negative comments I was receiving on my social media posts, where people were literally laughing at my postings as they interpreted them as primitive, calling me an ignorant poor peasant.  The more I practiced what I learned from the the harmony education the more my ecological awareness increased, so too was my pride about the life I had created for my family.  We grow our own organic grains and vegetables. Our children are healthy. My goats and chickens roam free, and we are never short of food. These days, when I walk my land and hear the sounds of life arou...

In  Pale Blue Dot  (1994), Carl Sagan reflects upon the photograph of Earth taken from the edge of the Solar System and interprets its significance as extending beyond astronomical documentation into the domain of ethical and existential inquiry. From this distant vantage point, the planet appears as a minute and fragile presence suspended within an immeasurable cosmic expanse. This visual encounter performs an epistemic intervention upon entrenched human assumptions concerning scale, centrality, and consequence. Visiting the Moon? "Earthrise"  is a photograph of Earth and part of the Moon's surface that was taken from lunar orbit by astronaut William Anders on December 24, 1968 Sagan’s meditation situates the totality of human experience within the boundaries of this single, infinitesimal sphere. Every form of social organisation, emotional attachment, ideological construction, and historical conflict unfolds within the limits of this marginal fragment of matter. The acc...