Reimagining Deliberative Democracy to Meet the Metacrisis
My quiet summer fundraiser continues. So far we’ve received $1453 from 15 people. If you find my work meaningful, please send me …
My conversation with an Indigenous/metacrisis-educated AI (AI Meets Wisdom Series – Part 6)
Dear friends, For many months I’ve been exploring connections between my work, the metacrisis, and Indigenous worldviews and wisdom. Last week I …
My search for life-serving transformational directions in these times
Dear friends, We are certainly in a time of profound transformation. The competition between worldviews is heating up and the field of ideological …
The prospect of wise public policy (AI – A Partner in Wise Democracy? #7)
I had a conversation with Claude, one of my AI colleagues, which I share here. Starting with a prompt about wise public …
Individualism, Collectivism, Metabolism (Hospicing Modernity, Part 1)
Shifting our fundamental identity from being separate individuals and groups to being facets of the dynamic metabolism of nature – as strange …
Focusing on the Throughline
Here you’ll find a vivid narrative metaphor about attending to what’s most important in times of rapid change and challenge… where the flow …
Engaging with the Evolving Whole
What this message is about: Everything in the world is part of an evolving whole. Learning – once again, newly – how …
Truth and the dance of fact and story (Sense-Making Part 7)
Facts ground us in reality. Stories ground us in meaning. The two together can produce powerful guidance, what we call “truth”. But …
Earth will survive. Shall we? – Some Science, Spirit and Song
This morning an astrophysicist’s essay brought up for me my long-time suspicion that “saving the world” is more about saving ourselves than …