So what then might the opposite of consume be? I might have suggested, fasting, ‘getting rid of’, or a form of austerity. But the definition, “destruction by separating into parts”, is all too appropriate, so the opposite must be something like ‘reassembling toward life.’ – Nora Bateson

Article Keynote

un-pick-apart-able

By Nora Bateson

Bringing a morsel of food to your lips or to the lips of another is an act of intimacy. It is a personal contact point with the seasons and the generations...It is in this intimacy that I suggest a possibility for system change lies.

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Article Living Earth

Tending the Wild

By Charles Eisenstein

What looked to European settlers like untamed wilderness was actually the product of millennia of intentional human influence. Calling it wilderness, or “virgin territory,” gave them license to occupy it, cultivate it, “develop” it, and “improve” it.

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Article Theology

The Problem with “More”

By Mark Longhurst

Our globalized world lures us to crave more. The culture of “more” is a culture of not enough, accumulation and conquest, and sought but constantly deferred satiety. Every time we text message or update Instagram, researchers tell us that our brains loop in a dopamine cycle of neurological yearning.

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Conversation Consciousness

The Deschooling Dialogues | Ayahuasca and Other Pathways of Perception

By Alnoor Ladha, Daniel Pinchbeck, Rhonda Fabian

Daniel | Since I started this whole journey...it's felt to me that there is the potential that we, in this lifetime, can somehow make a kind of quantum, mutational leap into another dimensional realization.

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Gallery Waste and Beauty

The Prophecy

By Fabrice Monteiro

Through his stunning work, Belgian-Beninese photographer Fabrice Monteiro challenges us to examine issues of fashion, race, consumerism and exploitation.

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Gallery Forests

Green Medicine

By Michael O’Brien

I use photography as a tool to explore the raw elemental power of the natural world by visiting and re-visiting places I’m drawn to in order to be touched by their spiritual essence.

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Credits

Staff and Advisors

Fall 2018 All Consuming!

Editorial

The Four Nutriments
Rhonda Fabian

Articles

Keynote
un-pick-apart-able
Nora Bateson
Living Earth
Tending the Wild
Charles Eisenstein
Governance
Making Politics Sacred Again
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Media Literacy
From the Unreal to the Real
World Goodwill
Theology
The Problem with “More”
Mark Longhurst
Worldview
The Galileo Project
David Lorimer
Joyfulness
Do We Really Want to Be Happy?
Pamela Boyce Simms

Conversations

Consciousness
The Deschooling Dialogues | Plant Medicine and the Coming Transition
Alnoor Ladha, Daniel Pinchbeck, Rhonda Fabian
Archetypes
Eldering in the Age of Consumption
Sharon Blackie and Stephen Jenkinson
Activism
Water and the Rising Feminine 
Judy Wicks, Pat McCabe, Li An Phoa, Eve Miari
Case Study
A Tale of Two Pipelines
Victoria Price

Essays

Oneness
Unity and the Power of Love
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Nonduality
Between the Inner and Outer Worlds
Michael Gray
Travels
Wind | A Letter to My Daughters
Theodore Richards
Higher Power
Healing the Hunger
Lyla June
Book
The Selling of the Soul
Rick Haltermann
Book
Nourishment
Fred Provenza
Reader's Essay
Are We Addicted to Fear?
Victoria Hanchin
Reader's Essay
What the Wind Taught
JoAnne O'Brien-Levin

Galleries

Waste and Beauty
The Prophecy
Fabrice Monteiro
Forests
Green Medicine
Michael O’Brien

Poetry

Three Poems
Annie Lighthart
Three Poems
John E. Vérin
finals time
Climbing Sun
How Love Builds a Home
Shawn Aveningo Sanders
May Everything Flower
Liliana Torpey

Music

Art Activism
Healing Sound with Jesse Paris Smith
Kari Auerbach
Meditation
Consumption As The Path
Jeff Finlin

In Brief

Essential Reading
Books in Brief
David Lorimer
Anthropocene
Climate News
Victoria Price