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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…

Strategic synergy between individual and collective

I just got off a conference call workshop in which the facilitator repeatedly maintained that “it all starts with the individual”, in the sense that an individual has to do their own developmental and “get your life together” work in order to be i…

Six Degrees of Separation from Reality

When you are standing on the edge of a cliff, a step forward is not progress. — Anonymous Juliet Eilperin’s 9/25/09 Washington Post article “New Analysis Brings Dire Forecast of 6.3-Degree Temperature Increase” http://bit.ly/6degreesWarmer descri…

A Movement of Social Evolutionaries?

I believe there is an emerging movement increasingly focused on the conscious evolution of social systems. It hasn’t landed on a broadly agreeable name or identity, but I see a number of trends converging toward a common ground from fields as dive…