Archive for August 2020
Making the Evolutionary Leap
It’s the end of August 2020 in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic. Last week in the U.S. was the online Democratic National Convention, and this week is the Republican Convention. The difference between the narratives of the two parties is astounding, as different as night and day. The differences of belief people hold around…
Read MoreControl
I believe we’re seeing in the world the inevitable effects of the temptation for us humans to use our intelligence to control – Nature, people, groups, nations, ourselves — and control so easily slides into domination, oppression, and exploitation. It’s inevitable what happens in the paradigm of separation and materialism in which we live. Control…
Read MoreOutrage
I want to write about outrage, the way my mind and heart and belly can flare at the wrongness I see in the world, especially at the people who I see as thinking and acting wrongly. The impulse is so compelling, so visceral, primal. They’re destroying the country, and the whole world! If they would…
Read MoreIn Conversation with the Great Transition of our Time — In our Lives, and In the World
It seems we have entered the time of The Great Transition.Our ancestors have spoken of this time.Earth’s ecosystems have been giving us her soft messages for a while now, gracefully collapsing under our dedication to consumption and domination. We’re starting to see this great conversation of epic forces more clearly now on societal levels, all…
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