A group of evolutionary psychologists has replaced the top layer of Abraham Maslow’s influential “Pyramid of Needs” — “self-actualization” — with parenting and mate selection. I just read an article describing the debate surrounding this develop…
In his closing essay for his April 2, 2010 JOURNAL, Bill Moyers references several works on inequality in America. Among these is THE SPIRIT LEVEL: WHY GREATER EQUALITY MAKES SOCIETIES STRONGER by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, who together h…
FourYearsGo (4YG) is a planetary effort to draw together people and organizations working to shift civilization in positive directions, with the intention to make clear progress by 2014. Their view is that the next four years will determine the qu…
There are many diverse approaches to systems thinking and, among them, many systemic approaches to furthering healthy changes in society. Within this category we can include such diverse resources as (just for example): A. Donella Meadows’ Twelve …
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…
The ACLU is considering reversing its support of the Supreme Court Ruling allowing unlimited campaign contributions by corporations. It has long maintained that government regulation of campaign contributions violates the free speech guarantees of…
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…
A reader from South Africa, Pam Sykes, alerted me to an absolutely fascinating and devastating review of Avatar, in which there is much truth and a wealth of sci-fi and fantasy background information. http://asubtleknife.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/l…
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…
I want to highlight new developments that have come to light concerning one part of my Jan 27 piece “Avatar is stimulating some very juicy conversation…” http://bit.ly/AvatarJuicy which, it turns out, was read by leaders of the Pachamama* Allian…