Introduction

Editorial

Unlearning Together

For the first time, we have the scientific tools to look inward at the genetic and atomic structures that underlie all Life, Nature's Code unwinding its great story across space and time. For the first time, we understand that Earth is a single great living, breathing ecosystem; humans are but one part. Finally, we are beginning to see that the theories, ideologies, and wars we create are the output of our collective dream—habits of mind.

All Consuming!

One way to think about our fall theme, All Consuming!, is to remember that all living beings consume. Plants consume water, sunlight, and nutrients in the soil and convert these into food energy that other beings require to live. Ponder that last sentence. We forget photosynthesis is a true miracle. We, and all our ancestors, are the products of water, sunlight, and soil.

Rising Earth Awareness

When did you first feel 'at one' with nature's penetrating presence and mystery? Were you a child, enmeshed in the strange drone of cicadas on a warm summer day? Was it the first time you witnessed the glittering ocean or the arc of a shooting star? That expansion that suddenly bloomed in your chest revealed your true nature as an essential note in the symphony of creation—not just a drop of water in the ocean, but ocean-water itself.