Surveillance and parasitism harm society’s collective intelligence
What this post is about: Society’s collective intelligence needs to be able to see clearly what’s going on and take action about …
The Conversion Of The American Dream
This article is about breaking out of robotic patterns of consumption to re-engage with life and the high adventure of a new economy and …
Pattern Languages: Social DNA for conscious evolution of social systems
More and more I think of my transformational work as a DNA-modifying RNA molecule, tweaking the changes needed for conscious evolution. The dominant social DNA – the society-shaping designs and dynamic patterns that replicate and evolve – are all …
Integral Politics article and journal
The most comprehensive essay I have so far written on the underlying theory of co-intelligent, holistic politics has just been published (two years since I wrote it) in a special edition of Integral Review about integral politics. It starts on pag…
Tom Atlee live interview Mar 11 on evolutionary activism
This Thursday March 11, 2010, Craig Hamilton will interview me about evolutionary activism on his “Awakening the Impulse to Evolve” series. Tens of thousands of people participate in his free conference call programs which are archived at http://e…
Learning from Haiti: Seven Ways to Respond to Crises
This article was written for a progressive magazine which asked for an updated version of my earlier essay on the Haitian crisis. http://bit.ly/7pJ0iF I decided that rather than updating it I would reorganize it to reflect some deeper dynamics I s…
Evolutionary Open Source Religion
EVOLUTIONARY OPEN SOURCE RELIGION I highly recommend this great article on Open Source Religion. http://www.searchmagazine.org/May-June%202009/full-opensource.html Evolutionary spirituality is not an open source religion, as such, but it provides …
Reflections on Evolutionary Activism – my new book
My book Reflections on Evolutionary Activism: Essays, poems and prayers from an emerging field of sacred social change is now available in paperback for $15 at http://evolutionaryactivism.com/Buy_the_book(where you’ll find some discounts) as well …
my new book on evolutionary activism
I hope within the week to announce the availability of my new book REFLECTIONS ON EVOLUTIONARY ACTIVISM: Essays, poems, and prayers from an emerging field of sacred social change. It reframes activism as a conscious evolutionary undertaking and th…
Some evolutionary/systemic definitions
I find this set of definitions presents a guidance-laden worldview based on an expanded application of the evolutionary principle of “fit”. Fit – having qualities that match the realities and demands of a context (situation, environment) — usuall…