Empathy notes #4: Toward an era of wise caring
Reason and feeling each have gifts and limitations. Used well together they generate wise caring. There are examples of wise caring in …
Empathy Notes #3: Empathy versus rationality?
Recent cogent critiques of empathy promote rationality as its antidote. But each of these powerful capacities has gifts and limitations. We need …
#Occupy Weekly Sparks = We Can Do It All
Much has been said about the Occupy movement’s lack of demands and vision. Some say it will have no impact unless it makes demands and organizes to make sure those demands are met. Others respond that the People should just take charge of their de…
Free teleseminar “Evolutionize Your Life” – Weds May 18th 5:30pm Pacific
I’m excited to let you know about an upcoming free teleseminar by colleagues of mine, Michael Dowd and Connie Barlow. This couple is well known for their work in translating the various evolutionary sciences into practical wisdom for meeting the c…
Another remarkable evolutionary voice
As many of you know, I find the evolutionary perspective to be one of the most meaningful, powerful, and instructive worldviews I’ve ever encountered. I find fascinating efforts to bring science, spirit, and everyday life together into a coherent …
Does Compassion Need to Evolve?
I introduce the issue of compassion needing to evolve to embrace the larger causes of human suffering and degradation of nature in the short article “Does Compassion Need to Evolve” on the Co-Intelligence Institute website at http://co-intelligenc…
New Pragmatism, New “Success”
Howard Silverman’s excellent “Pragmatism in the Age of Social-Ecological Truths” http://bit.ly/cChKjn notes that pragmatism must take on a new aura in the 21st century. Silverman quotes numerous environmental philosophers about what the new pragma…
got a dictionary?
Thanks Mike. My perspective is that jargon is the leading edge of the evolution of language (and to a certain extent culture). As with most emerging species, most jargon does not survive or spread very far outside its original environment. Some of…
Complexifying Our Evolutionary Understanding
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…
Can we integrate Systems Thinking for social transformation?
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 …