There is no other way. We can no longer speak of activism without understanding that true activism arises from the sacred heart of the Earth, the soul of nature, and the consciousness of the planet as Self.

– Gary Horvitz, Keynote

Article Interbeing

Fourteen Recommendations When Facing Climate Tragedy

By Jem Bendell

How might interbeing raise you from the threat of depression if you sense the end of everything one can contribute to due to near-term extinction of the human race and the majority of species?

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Article Grass Roots

Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance

By Lisa Fithian

Conscious organizing addresses the most fundamental need we have as humans to belong to a community.

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Article Mindfulness

Thich Nhat Hanh’s Code of Global Ethics

By Gary Gach

At the turning of the Millennium, the United Nations chose Thich Nhat Hanh's code of global ethics, the Five Mindfulness Trainings, as the foundation for a non-sectarian ethical path for humanity.

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Article Simulacrum

The Sun of Darkness

By Daniel Pinchbeck

The center and the periphery are changing places. This is part of a larger epochal shift that we can best understand through a mythological and cosmological lens.

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Gallery Culture

Burning Man | What We’ve Learned

By Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London

"We don’t need a blueprint, we don’t want a master plan, we just need to practice the skills and create the kind of spaces we want to live in, and share them."

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Music Off-Grid

Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living

By Kari Auerbach

As a reclusive artist, she’s a mysterious figure, revered, mythologized, and missed with a fervor that most artists would marvel at.  

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Credits

Staff and Advisors

New Spirit, Wise Action 

Introduction

Editorial
New Spirit, Wise Action
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Beyond ‘Sacred Activism’
Gary Horvitz

Articles

Stewardship
Restoring the Housatonic River Walk
Suzanne Fowle
Intention
Every Act a Ceremony
Charles Eisenstein
The Simulacrum
The Sun of Darkness
Daniel Pinchbeck
RECONCILIATION
White Men and Native America
Lev Natan

Galleries

Culture
Burning Man | What We’ve Learned
Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London
Expression
Kathy Thaden | An Inner Fire
Kathy Thaden

Music

Soundscape
Big Lazy | Music for Unsettling Times
Kari Auerbach

Conversations

Group Work
Holacracy | an Emergent Order System
Brian Robertson
Mind
The Practice of Liminal Dreaming
Jennifer Dumpert

Poetry

God Becomes a Hairdresser
Penelope Scambly Schott
A Long Convalescence
Judith Skillman

Essays

Media Literacy
Decoding the Trump Virus
Christopher Schaefer
Oneness
Including the Earth in Our Prayers
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Radical Hope
The Paradox of Wise Activism
Jennifer Browdy
Openness
Living In Flow
Sky Nelson-Isaacs
From a Kosmos Reader
Fluency in the Language of Stillness
Diana Turner-Forte
From a Kosmos Reader
Values as a Means to Invite Greater Depth
Christine Locher