Spring | Summer 2017
Silence is Not an Option
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Silence is not an option! In addition to examining and changing our personal inner lives and our cultural values, the conscious activist is challenged to apply this wisdom to strategies that affect the manifest world.
Dealing With the Darkness of What Humans Do to Humans
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This article shows how in response to thuggish forces the qualities of feminine intelligence—available to men as to women—can enable us to take a significant leap in consciousness and demonstrate what anyone can do to build a beautiful future.
New Approaches to Healing Collective Conflict and Trauma: Our Responsibility as Global Citizens*
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Thomas Hübl and William Ury "This is the beginning of what we need, a vocabulary for how we talk about a process that we don’t even have words yet to describe—what actually is happening at the biochemical, genetic, psychological, and spiritual levels as the process of peace is being made." -Ury
Thomas Hübl’s The Pocket Project: Facilitating the Integration of Collective Trauma
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Where economists seek to understand repeating cycles of financial and political unrest, Thomas Hübl sees simply “collective chunks of shadow trying to process themselves.” Inspired by his discoveries, he founded The Pocket Project, whose subject of care is ‘one client,’ or humanity as a whole.
Pilgrimage: A Path of Practice for the New Activism
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To be a pilgrim is to be committed to a vision that is truly your own, to a vision that may not necessarily be defined by external values of society but by a deep and tenacious, close-to-the-core belief in yourself and in living your values in the world, to make a better world possible.
The Future of Activism
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If we want to craft a form of activism that has a chance of engaging at the level of root ideology and worldview, it will need to have both the clarity of understanding and the tools to target far more of its firepower at the true root cause of our poly-crises: global capitalism.
An Interview with Deepak Chopra: You Are the Universe
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I felt it was incumbent upon me—along with the help of physicists, cosmologists, and quantum physicists including my co-author, Menas Kafatos—to really look at these two very fundamental questions. What is reality? What is existence? And how come we have awareness of that existence?
Entangled with the World
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The questions we ask trigger the entire world. They are the world examining itself. Even more, the space between a question and an answer is not empty and void. It is troubled and littered with many obstacles, many beings, and many forces we are called to engage with but often avoid in our rush for answers.
Subtle Activism: A Way Forward through Chaotic Times
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Subtle activism is a concept I have introduced to describe the potentially crucial role that consciousness-based practices like meditation, prayer, and ritual may play in supporting change in the world. Although in our modern Western culture these practices have more typically been used to support individual growth, they can also be harnessed for the purposes of social and collective transformation.
An Interview with Sister Miriam Therese MacGillis at Genesis Farm
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The only way we can really be effective is to come home and understand our own ecosystems. This sequential process is the most fundamental learning we should be given. Only then we can ask: is our behavior enhancing what the natural world is doing, or is it the cause of the disease and the sickness? That is why our energies at Genesis Farm have been so focused on bioregionalism.
Returning Home to Our Place in the Cosmos
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This has been perhaps the essential lesson I’ve taken from my time at Genesis Farm: that we humans have the possibility to awaken from what Berry deemed the ‘technological trance,’ a deep fixation and obsession for progress through technological development and unlimited economic growth.