The essay below is from Paul Krafel, one of my teachers about systems and nature. Paul, author of SEEING NATURE, one of the more influential books in my life, runs Chrysalis, a nature-based charter school in northern California http://www.chrysali…
The response to my Avatar essay has intrigued me and encouraged me to look wider and deeper at the conversation swirling around this remarkable film. Several people wrote me about the White Savior myth popular in Western cultures — notably embodi…
“Embrace the movie — surely the most vivid and convincing creation of a fantasy world ever seen in the history of moving pictures.” — Richard Corliss, Time Magazine “Avatar asks us to see that everything is connected, all human beings to each oth…
I’ll talk about democracy in a minute. But first a note about crises and evolution.Evolutionary science tells us that crises and catastrophes are cauldrons of co-creativity, generating new forms.Perhaps the most dramatic example is how the 70 heav…
The story about the Haiti earthquake is pretty clear: A horrible thing has happened to a lot of people. They need help, and the world is moving to help them. True enough, as far as it goes. But there is more to it than that, almost overwhelmingly …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
It seems the there’s a hot proposal in California to convene a constitutional convention in the form of a randomly selected citizen deliberative council — and to make the ability to do that, as needed, part of the law of the State. This would be …