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The Pileated Woodpecker: Avian Divinity in a Time of Chaos

By Mark Wallace
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Assyian Bird God

At one time, God was a bird.  In ancient Egypt, Thoth was the Ibis-headed divinity of magic and wisdom. Winged divine beings – griffins and harpies – populated the pantheon of Greek antiquity, and Quetzalcoatl was the plumed serpent deity of the pre-Columbian Aztecs. As well, biblical religion includes portrayals of God as the beaked and feathered Holy Spirit who, alongside the Father and Son, is the winged God of historic Christian witness. Appearing as a dove at the time of Jesus’ baptism, the bird-God of the New Testament signals the deep grounding of biblical faith in the unity of all things: divine life and birdlife, divinity and animality, heaven and earth, spirit and flesh. This précis of divine avifauna in the world’s religions signals the continuity of biblical religion with the animistic beliefs of Indigenous communities. In animism, all things are alive with sacred personhood and worthy of human beings’ love and protection insofar as Spirit enfleshes itself in all things. In animism, all things are persons – we inhabit a world of bird people, tree people, river people, and human people – only some of whom are human. In my judgment, this is the worldview that is needed for our time. My suggestion, then, is that animism is both humankind’s primal orientation to reality and could be the baseline of our different attempts today to nurture communities of hope and resilience in an era of global dying.

This past Spring in the Crum Woods – on the western edge of the Delaware River Basin and just east of the city of Philadelphia and due south of the gas fields of the Marcellus Shale – I encountered a wide variety of birds in my morning walks. On one particular Spring morning, I came across a mallard duck, a flock of double-crested cormorants, one broad-winged hawk, a group of red-bellied woodpeckers, a gathering of white-throated sparrows, and a congregation of American robins, among other feathered visitors in the woods.

Amidst this display of avian biodiversity, I became especially intrigued with the growth and the life-cycle of a pileated woodpecker family. The pileated woodpecker is a strikingly beautiful winged creature. It is a large bird, about the size of a crow, mostly jet-black with slashing white stripes and a bright red crest on top of its head. I first saw one of the mature woodpeckers hammering out a nest hole in a dead tree on the banks of the Crum Creek. It cut wood chips out of the tree and then flicked them away from the newly excavated cavity with relish abandon, many of them splashing into the creek below. I watched this bird and its companion often feeding below the nest – pileated woodpeckers like ants and termites – by banging repeatedly into nearby trees.  is a loud, brash, in-your-face bird that lights up the forest with its soaring flight, screeching call, and head-bashing impact. After a couple of weeks of nest-building by the adults, wonderfully, two baby pileated woodpeckers appeared. They screeched and clattered around the nest just like the parents.  Another two weeks passed, and the babies fledged – effortlessly, it seemed, as they took flight through the forest echoing their parents’ wild energy and noisy calls.

But as inspiring as this tableau appeared to me, the question should be asked whether there was anything particularly spiritual about observing these birds’ activities. It was awe-inspiring to bear witness to the care and concern the adult woodpeckers showed their young. They built a nest cavity of perfect proportions, soaring through the forest and chopping into trees for grubs for their chicks, and then they would huddle with their hatchlings for feeding and nurture. But as impressive to me as were the woodpeckers’ rituals of hunting, gathering, and nest-building, one could query whether there was a distinctive religious dimension to all of this aerial activity.

Or to put it another way, Is God or Spirit in the face of the pileated woodpeckers I found overhead in the Crum Creek? In response, an historical note. In the past, the pileated woodpecker’s closest cousin was the ivorybill woodpecker. The two woodpeckers are almost indistinguishable, with the ivorybill being a bit larger than the pileated with an ivory-colored bill (so its name) as opposed to the pileated’s gray-and-whitish bill. But in spite of their almost identical appearance, the ivorybill is now considered a “ghost bird,” a bird that is most likely extinct, sadly, because its original pre-twentieth century habitat, the swampy primeval forests of the American Southeast, was largely cut down for timber production. However, its counterpart, the pileated woodpecker, is thriving in the ivorybill’s home range and beyond, in large part because of modern sustainable forestry practices, so much so that the pileated woodpecker now flourishes in a large woodland arc extending from the Eastern United States through Canada and into the Pacific Northwest, including Northern California.

In the Crum Woods, I was spell-bound when the pileated woodpecker would leave the nest and soar through the trees, darkening the ground at my feet with its almost thirty-inch wingspan. Its head-banging sound would ricochet through the forest. Its flight through the leaves and sky overhead would root me in place, unbelieving that such a creature is still with us. Ornithologist Scott Weidensaul writes about the similar reactions local people have experienced over time when the ivorybill, in particular, and the pileated woodpecker as well have taken flight above their heads. Historically, this spectacle prompted observers to call these sensational creatures the “By-God, look at that bird” woodpeckers – or simply, in moments of gasping, exclamatory wonder, “the Lord God bird.” Weidensaul writes, “The names [country folk] used for the ivorybill reflected the dazzle of seeing one of these huge birds rowing through the light-splashed swamps on powerful wings. King of the Woodpeckers, they called it. King Woodchuck.  Giant woodpecker. Log God. Like the smaller but similar pileated woodpecker, it was sometimes called the Lord God bird, or the By-God, because that’s what a breathless greenhorn said when he first saw one:  By God, look at that bird.”

To be sure, such outbursts can be read simply as impulsive reactions to the sudden appearance of a large, multi-colored bird ripping apart old logs with its massive bill, or wildly flying and shrieking high above the forest floor, blotting out the sun’s light overhead. But could such outbursts at the sight of the ivorybill or pileated woodpecker also be read as a hint of something else? Is it possible such outbursts are a clue in our core psyches that we are aware of something awe-inspiring – even divine – at play in the enchanted forests that surround us? Could such outbursts signify a rumor within our deepest selves that we are being visited by powers greater than ourselves – powers that offer us meaning and courage in a world increasingly devoid of hope in the future wellbeing of the planet?

And so for me today, crying out “Lord God!” at the sight of a pileated woodpecker, as others did at the sight of an ivorybill or pileated in days gone by, is a shout-out to all of creation that here in this place and at this time I am encountering a visage of God that is not unlike, I suspect, the two-thousand-year-old reaction of Jesus’ onlookers to the beaked-and-feathered Spirit above them at the time of Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan Valley. This, then, is my heartfelt belief and my hope:  catching a site of the Lord God bird in the Crum Woods is to catch a site of God flying and rustling in my midst. In my “Lord God!” exclamation, my hope is that God is still active and alive in the woodlands and fields and rivers within all of this beauteous creation. My hope is that the winged God at Jesus’ baptism is once more taking flight as the Lord God bird in the Crum Woods, the avian divinity of the forest, the pileated woodpecker, who again calls to me and to all of us to find grace and pursue justice in our place and in our time as well. Could this animist expectation in Spirit as enfleshing itself within everything that grows, walks, flies, and swims in and over the Earth be the basis of our attempts today to forge communities of hope and resilience in a time of mass death? In my own life, let it be so, as I wager everything on the integrity of this hope and this prayer.

 

This is an excerpt from the book by Mark Wallace, When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World. It has been modified by the author. 

About Mark Wallace

Religion Professor Mark Wallace describes his research and writing as “an exercise in the emerging field of religion and ecology—a promising new line of inquiry in religious studies.” Mark Wallace is the author of  When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World, (Fordham University Press, 2018), Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature (Fortress, 2005), Fragments of the Spirit: Nature, Violence, and the Renewal of Creation (Continuum, 1996; Trinity, 2002), and The Second Naïveté: Barth, Ricoeur, and the New Yale Theology (Mercer University Press, 1990, 1995).

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Danilsa Figueroa
July 8, 2019

HOW BEAUTIFUL passages ..I REALLY HOPE EVERYONE READS THESE BOOKS AND LEARN AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT PRESERVING OUR FORESTS, OURS SPECIES, OUR WORLD, OUR UNIVERSE AND OUR HUMANITY AS WELL.

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Paramahansa Yogananda

Gallery

Climate
The Atlas of Disappearing Places
Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros
Birds
The World of Itō Jakuchū
Public Domain

Mixed Media

Video
Joanna Macy | Climate Crisis as Spiritual Path
Old Dog Documentaries
Video
The Moment | Alan Watts and the Eternal Now
T&H Inspiration

In Brief

Message from Haiti | Inspiration Between Two
Jerrice Baptiste and Roodly Laurore

Poetry

Lord of the Forest | Good Fences
Dana Sonnenschein
Bum’ma (Because I Couldn’t Say Grandma)
R. Shawntez Jackson
Text | Along the Willamette
Andrea Hollander
Calendula Seed | Spirit Rise
Debra Wöhrmann

Essays

New Paradigm
The Holomovement
Emanuel Kuntzelman and Jill Robinson
Interbeing
All Things Are a Commons
Phila Back
Awareness
The Indwelling Spirit
Eric Hutchins
Happiness
Toward a Global Wellbeing Mindset
Jürgen Nagler
Land
The Potential of Grassroots Environmental Stewardship
Bruce McLeod
from a Kosmos Reader
Meeting Mugwort
Tracy Wulfers
from a Kosmos Reader
Seeking “Ssshhh”
Laura A. Weber
from a Kosmos Reader
Humble Like the Earth
Melina Bondy
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Realigning withEarth Wisdom 

Introduction

Editorial
Realigning with Earth Wisdom
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Indigenous to Life
Daniel Christian Wahl

Articles

Ecological Civilization
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
David Korten
In Memoriam
The Big Ocean Cantata
Dr. Santiago Lusardi Girelli
How to Be a Soil Keeper
Kiley Arroyo
Beliefs
To Reason with a Madman
Charles Eisenstein
Unity
How Not to Lose the Elephant for All its Parts
Craig Holdrege
Awareness
Our Animal Bodies and the Unitive State
Susan Aposhyan

Conversations

Worldview
The Web of Meaning
Jeremy Lent and Nicholas Joyce
Cultural Memory
Trauma and Regeneration
Soul Shivers

Gallery

Consciousness
Emerging Renaissance | The Art and Wisdom of Leigh J McCloskey
Leigh J McCloskey
Archetypes
Hermetic Wisdom and the Attributes of Our Time
Leigh J McCloskey

Essays

Commons
Glacier, Elder, Teacher
Stephanie Krzywonos
Universe Story
The Wonder of It All
Peter Adair
Awe
Practicing the Art of Wonder through Radical Presence
K. Lauren de Boer
Between Prayer Mat and Smoke Hole
Martin Shaw
Childhood
Reconnecting Our Children to Nature
Darcia Narvaez
BLANK
Seeking the Honey of Life
Lory Widmer Hess

Poetry

Slant | Vernacular
Sarah Carleton
Today You Are a River in My Hands | Once Trees Grew Inside Me
Marianne Peel
Signposts and Hedges | Visiting My Brother’s Nebraska Farmstead On August 30th At Dusk
David Melville
Into the Riptide | The Best We Can Imagine Together
Bethany Lee

Mixed Media

Video
Storm
Thomas Lane
Song
Inhale Exhale
Jahnavi Pandya and Sam Guarnaccia
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Realigning withEarth Wisdom 

Introduction

Editorial
Realigning with Earth Wisdom
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Indigenous to Life
Daniel Christian Wahl

Articles

Ecological Civilization
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
David Korten
In Memoriam
The Big Ocean Cantata
Dr. Santiago Lusardi Girelli
How to Be a Soil Keeper
Kiley Arroyo
Beliefs
To Reason with a Madman
Charles Eisenstein
Unity
How Not to Lose the Elephant for All its Parts
Craig Holdrege
Awareness
Our Animal Bodies and the Unitive State
Susan Aposhyan

Conversations

Worldview
The Web of Meaning
Jeremy Lent and Nicholas Joyce
Cultural Memory
Trauma and Regeneration
Soul Shivers

Gallery

Consciousness
Emerging Renaissance | The Art and Wisdom of Leigh J McCloskey
Leigh J McCloskey
Archetypes
Hermetic Wisdom and the Attributes of Our Time
Leigh J McCloskey

Essays

Commons
Glacier, Elder, Teacher
Stephanie Krzywonos
Universe Story
The Wonder of It All
Peter Adair
Awe
Practicing the Art of Wonder through Radical Presence
K. Lauren de Boer
Between Prayer Mat and Smoke Hole
Martin Shaw
Childhood
Reconnecting Our Children to Nature
Darcia Narvaez
BLANK
Seeking the Honey of Life
Lory Widmer Hess

Poetry

Slant | Vernacular
Sarah Carleton
Today You Are a River in My Hands | Once Trees Grew Inside Me
Marianne Peel
Signposts and Hedges | Visiting My Brother’s Nebraska Farmstead On August 30th At Dusk
David Melville
Into the Riptide | The Best We Can Imagine Together
Bethany Lee

Mixed Media

Video
Storm
Thomas Lane
Song
Inhale Exhale
Jahnavi Pandya and Sam Guarnaccia
Credits

Staff and Advisors

The Century of Awakening 

Introduction

Editorial
Century of Awakening
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Awakening to Life
Jeremy Lent

Articles

Wholeness
The Ecozoans
Sam Guarnaccia
Faith
Global Challenges Are Directing Us Toward a Unity of Purpose
Kurt Johnson, Elena Mustakova, Robert Atkinson
Practice
Vow of 120,000 Actions
Hunter Liguore
Rebirth
The Descent to Soul
Bill Plotkin
Shift
Gravity and Allurement
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Technology
The Two Faces of Digital Spirituality
Don Iannone
Connection
Sacramental Conversation
Christopher Schaefer
Sacred Feminine
Reclaiming Spiritual Wholeness
Riane Eisler

Conversations

Framing
Can We Measure Culture and Consciousness?
Phil Clothier and Tor Eneroth
Psyche
Dismantling the Patriarchy Within
Anne Baring and Faranak Mirjalili

Essays

Community
Living Communally
Graham Meltzer
Encounter
Scent
Regina O'Melveny
Religion
Prayers in the Dark
Rebecca Wildbear
Unity
The Unchaining and The Unveiling
Mino Akhtar
Education
Scaffolding for a Thrivable Planet
Annie Spade
Education
Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence
Dr Gianni Zappalà
Transformation
The Age of Freedom
Robert Cobbold
Unlearning
The Joy of Living and Learning Interconnectedly
Abbey Joy Cmiel

Mixed Media

Film
Remembering Nature
Ross Harrison
Song
‘Uncomfortable’
Simon Spire
Gallery
Master Sha | Tao Calligraphy
Master Zhi Gang Sha
Readings
Poems for the Solar Age
Hazel Henderson

Poetry

Butterfly Effect
Louise Cary Barden
Topophilia | Thicket
Ann E. Michael
Unexpected Grace | Love Poem with Accolades
Constance Brewer
How Quickly the Light Changes | Before You Set Your Table
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
Credits

Staff and Advisors

The Century of Awakening 

Introduction

Editorial
Century of Awakening
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Awakening to Life
Jeremy Lent

Articles

Wholeness
The Ecozoans
Sam Guarnaccia
Faith
Global Challenges Are Directing Us Toward a Unity of Purpose
Kurt Johnson, Elena Mustakova, Robert Atkinson
Practice
Vow of 120,000 Actions
Hunter Liguore
Rebirth
The Descent to Soul
Bill Plotkin
Shift
Gravity and Allurement
Glenn Aparicio Parry
Technology
The Two Faces of Digital Spirituality
Don Iannone
Connection
Sacramental Conversation
Christopher Schaefer
Sacred Feminine
Reclaiming Spiritual Wholeness
Riane Eisler

Conversations

Framing
Can We Measure Culture and Consciousness?
Phil Clothier and Tor Eneroth
Psyche
Dismantling the Patriarchy Within
Anne Baring and Faranak Mirjalili

Essays

Community
Living Communally
Graham Meltzer
Encounter
Scent
Regina O'Melveny
Religion
Prayers in the Dark
Rebecca Wildbear
Unity
The Unchaining and The Unveiling
Mino Akhtar
Education
Scaffolding for a Thrivable Planet
Annie Spade
Education
Cultivating Spiritual Intelligence
Dr Gianni Zappalà
Transformation
The Age of Freedom
Robert Cobbold
Unlearning
The Joy of Living and Learning Interconnectedly
Abbey Joy Cmiel

Mixed Media

Film
Remembering Nature
Ross Harrison
Song
‘Uncomfortable’
Simon Spire
Gallery
Master Sha | Tao Calligraphy
Master Zhi Gang Sha
Readings
Poems for the Solar Age
Hazel Henderson

Poetry

Butterfly Effect
Louise Cary Barden
Topophilia | Thicket
Ann E. Michael
Unexpected Grace | Love Poem with Accolades
Constance Brewer
How Quickly the Light Changes | Before You Set Your Table
Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Visionary Spirit Transition and Transformation

Introduction

Editorial
The Role of the Visionary
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Unlocking a Fresh Vision for the World
Thomas Hübl

Articles

Ritual
Rough Initiations
Francis Weller
Rebirth
Dying Into the Creative
Paul Levy
Values
A Global Governance Paradigm Shift | First Principles First
Joni Carley
Learning
What Is Global Education and Why Does It Matter?  
Fernando M. Reimers
Transforming
Vision and Change | Fermentation as Metaphor
Sandor Ellix Katz
Esoteric
Thoughtforms | The materialization of sustained ideas
Pamela Boyce Simms
Subtle Realms
Across the Creek
Helen Russ
Memory
Looking Back | The Visionary Spirit of Resilience
Jamie K. Reaser, PhD

Conversations

Culture
Deschooling Dialogues: On Initiation, Trauma and Ritual with Francis Weller
Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha
Transformation
Choosing Earth | with Duane and Coleen Elgin
Duane Elgin and Coleen LeDrew Elgin

Galleries

Improvisation
Reilly Dow | Art of the Scribe
Reilly Dow
Unity
New Visions Give Hope in Dire Times
Nancy Earle

Media

Songs
David Berkeley | Oh Quiet World
Kari Auerbach
Short Film
“Dear Darkening Ground”
Daniel Christian Wahl

Essays

Living Earth
Death and Rebirth
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Commons
Headwater
Jack Slocomb
Evolution
It Couldn’t Be Clearer
Betsey Crawford
Localization
Birdsong as a Compass
Henry Coleman
From a Kosmos Reader
The Power of Pausing
Don Salmon
From a Kosmos Reader
We Are All Radical
Shannon M. Wills
Black Lives Matter
Dismantling Solid Bricks
Jerrice Baptiste
Archetypes
Cinderella Story
Mike Steward

Poetry

Kitchened | Postcard from the Mother Ghost
Annette Sisson
Ocean Breeze
Mike Steward
A Poem for My Students
Wayne-Daniel Berard
Into the Morphic | Reality Ritual
Climbing Sun
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Visionary Spirit Transition and Transformation

Introduction

Editorial
The Role of the Visionary
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Unlocking a Fresh Vision for the World
Thomas Hübl

Articles

Ritual
Rough Initiations
Francis Weller
Rebirth
Dying Into the Creative
Paul Levy
Values
A Global Governance Paradigm Shift | First Principles First
Joni Carley
Learning
What Is Global Education and Why Does It Matter?  
Fernando M. Reimers
Transforming
Vision and Change | Fermentation as Metaphor
Sandor Ellix Katz
Esoteric
Thoughtforms | The materialization of sustained ideas
Pamela Boyce Simms
Subtle Realms
Across the Creek
Helen Russ
Memory
Looking Back | The Visionary Spirit of Resilience
Jamie K. Reaser, PhD

Conversations

Culture
Deschooling Dialogues: On Initiation, Trauma and Ritual with Francis Weller
Francis Weller and Alnoor Ladha
Transformation
Choosing Earth | with Duane and Coleen Elgin
Duane Elgin and Coleen LeDrew Elgin

Galleries

Improvisation
Reilly Dow | Art of the Scribe
Reilly Dow
Unity
New Visions Give Hope in Dire Times
Nancy Earle

Media

Songs
David Berkeley | Oh Quiet World
Kari Auerbach
Short Film
“Dear Darkening Ground”
Daniel Christian Wahl

Essays

Living Earth
Death and Rebirth
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Commons
Headwater
Jack Slocomb
Evolution
It Couldn’t Be Clearer
Betsey Crawford
Localization
Birdsong as a Compass
Henry Coleman
From a Kosmos Reader
The Power of Pausing
Don Salmon
From a Kosmos Reader
We Are All Radical
Shannon M. Wills
Black Lives Matter
Dismantling Solid Bricks
Jerrice Baptiste
Archetypes
Cinderella Story
Mike Steward

Poetry

Kitchened | Postcard from the Mother Ghost
Annette Sisson
Ocean Breeze
Mike Steward
A Poem for My Students
Wayne-Daniel Berard
Into the Morphic | Reality Ritual
Climbing Sun
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Rapids of Change Our Collective Journey

Introduction

Editorial
Our Collective Journey
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
What is Solidarity?
Alnoor Ladha

Articles

Activism
The Tree Saviors of Chipko Andolan | A Woman-led Movement in India
Vandana Shiva
Living Earth
Salmon Migration as Earth Expression
David Abram
Resilience
Making the Case for a Small Farm Future
Chris Smaje
Sacred Space
What Would Hagia Sophia Say?
Marian Brehmer
New Cosmology
An Evolutionary Transition Is Coming—Are You Ready?
Robert Cobbold
#CuraDaTerra
What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Wellness
Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
Staci K. Haines
Archetypes
Recovering the Divine Feminine
Anne Baring

Conversations

#Curadaterra
Oppression, Interconnection, and Healing
Charles Eisenstein and Alnoor Ladha
Biology
Humanity and the Microbe: A Soul Agreement?
Elisabet Sahtouris and Jim Garrison

Galleries

Mind
CRAZYWISE | Shamanic Mysticism and Mental Wellness
Phil Borges
Biodiversity
Venerating the Sacred | Art as Cultural Therapy
Angela Manno

Essays

UN2020
We The “Peoples” | The UN at 75
Daniel Perell
UN2020
The Sustainable Development Goals Begin with Mindset
Jürgen Nagler
#Curadaterra
Decolonization Matters
Yogi Hale Hendlin
#CuraDaTerra
Five Centuries of Self-Quarantine
Michael Gray
Emergence
Living Radical Impermanence
Gary Horvitz
Consciousness
Turning Our Crises Around from the Inside Out
Kavita Byrd
from a Kosmos Reader
A Universal Congress
Bruce Schuman
from a Kosmos Reader
Horizontal Governance
Tom Osher

Poetry

Mercy
Okeke Onyedika
#Curadaterra
Epiphany | In the Know | Mapping
Colin Greer
#CuraDaTerra
Power Colours Memories Identity Fighting
Célia Xakriabá
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Rapids of Change Our Collective Journey

Introduction

Editorial
Our Collective Journey
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
What is Solidarity?
Alnoor Ladha

Articles

Activism
The Tree Saviors of Chipko Andolan | A Woman-led Movement in India
Vandana Shiva
Living Earth
Salmon Migration as Earth Expression
David Abram
Resilience
Making the Case for a Small Farm Future
Chris Smaje
Sacred Space
What Would Hagia Sophia Say?
Marian Brehmer
New Cosmology
An Evolutionary Transition Is Coming—Are You Ready?
Robert Cobbold
#CuraDaTerra
What Indigenous Wisdom Can Teach Us About Economics
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Wellness
Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
Staci K. Haines
Archetypes
Recovering the Divine Feminine
Anne Baring

Conversations

#Curadaterra
Oppression, Interconnection, and Healing
Charles Eisenstein and Alnoor Ladha
Biology
Humanity and the Microbe: A Soul Agreement?
Elisabet Sahtouris and Jim Garrison

Galleries

Mind
CRAZYWISE | Shamanic Mysticism and Mental Wellness
Phil Borges
Biodiversity
Venerating the Sacred | Art as Cultural Therapy
Angela Manno

Essays

UN2020
We The “Peoples” | The UN at 75
Daniel Perell
UN2020
The Sustainable Development Goals Begin with Mindset
Jürgen Nagler
#Curadaterra
Decolonization Matters
Yogi Hale Hendlin
#CuraDaTerra
Five Centuries of Self-Quarantine
Michael Gray
Emergence
Living Radical Impermanence
Gary Horvitz
Consciousness
Turning Our Crises Around from the Inside Out
Kavita Byrd
from a Kosmos Reader
A Universal Congress
Bruce Schuman
from a Kosmos Reader
Horizontal Governance
Tom Osher

Poetry

Mercy
Okeke Onyedika
#Curadaterra
Epiphany | In the Know | Mapping
Colin Greer
#CuraDaTerra
Power Colours Memories Identity Fighting
Célia Xakriabá
Credits

Staff and Advisors

True Wealth 

Introduction

Editorial
The Evolutionary Potential of Wealth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
True Health | What if the Virus is the Medicine?
Julia Hartsell and Jonathan Hadas Edwards

Articles

Commons
The Treasure of Our Living, Relational Commons
David Bollier
Investment
Soil Wealth and a Regenerative Green New Deal
Ronnie Cummins
Cosmology
The Power of Allurement
Betsey Crawford
activism
How We Win | Divestment and Nonviolent Direct Action
George Lakey
Economy
Advertising and Trading | The Markets’ Problem Twins
Hazel Henderson
Peacebuilding
Vision for a City of Hope Near Auschwitz
Nina Meyerhof

Conversations

Whole Systems
Bioregions and Regeneration | Honoring the Places Where We Live
Daniel Wahl and Kosha Joubert
Revolution
Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography
Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

Essays

Civilization
Economic Justice and Ecological Regeneration
Jeremy Lent
Inheritance
Wrestling with Wealth and Class
Simon Mont
Bioregions
Joy and Value of Connection to Place and Community
Malinda Clatterbuck
Mindfulness
Breakfast Table Revelation
Hai-An (Sister Ocean)
From a Kosmos Reader
Safe Houses | Giving Refuge
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
From a Kosmos Reader
Good Fortune
Marilyn DuHamel

Poetry

Two Poems by Joy McDowell
Joy McDowell
Two Poems by Diane Kendig
Diane Kendig
Blaxit
Joanne Godley
Two Poems by Ellen Waterson
Ellen Waterston

Galleries

Interbeing
Love Letters from Seaweed
Katherine Minott
Identity
In the Hands of Alchemy
Jerry Wennstrom

Mixed Media

Podcasts
greenplanet-blueplanet | Sacred Economy and Caring
Julian Guderley
New Cosmology
Fragile Gold
Sam Guarnaccia
Credits

Staff and Advisors

In the Labyrinth Pathways to Healing

Introduction

Editorial
Walking the Labyrinth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
The Labyrinth and the Black Madonna
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Habitat
Rebuilding Earth’s Forest Corridors
Teresa Coady
Communication
Civility and its Discontents
Erica Etelson
Social Justice
Freedom and Energy from Healing White Racism
John Bell
Nature
Howling in Place
Amy Logan
Economy
Wall Street to Main Street to World Street
Lilia C. Clemente
Quantum
The Science of Oneness
Loren Swift
Mind
Covid-19 is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection
Paul Levy
Leadership
Our Finest Hour, If We Choose
Joshua Spodek

Conversations

Trust
Hitching for Hope, with Ruairí McKiernan
Julian Guderley
Regenerative Economy
John Fullerton on the Qualities of a Regenerative Economy
John Fullerton and Daniel Christian Wahl

Galleries

Beauty
Gazing Into the Heart of Perfection
Harold Feinstein
Homelessness
Shelterless in the Time of COVID-19
Keith Smith

Poetry

Taking Turns
Ann Farley
Weeding the Labyrinth
Margaret Chula
In the Garden
Michele Belluomini
WYSIWYG
Catriona McAlister

Essays

Freedom
Biracial Identity | Seeking to Be Unconditioned
Renée Rolle-Whatley and Ramona Rolle-Berg
Vitality
A Letter to Herman Creek Canyon
Ruth Lizotte
Indigenous
Becoming Medicine
David R. Kopacz, MD and Joseph E. Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)
Youth Voices
Mind Matters Most
Tara Pinheiro Gibsone
READER's Essay
The Vitality of Paradox
Jamie K. Reaser, PhD
Reader's Essay
Ordinary Grace
O. Fred Donaldson
Leadership
Leading In Unknown Terrain
Audrey Eger Thompson and Jakob van Wielink
A Memory
Wisdom from the Flood
Alain Ruche
Credits

Staff and Advisors

In the Labyrinth Pathways to Healing

Introduction

Editorial
Walking the Labyrinth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
The Labyrinth and the Black Madonna
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Habitat
Rebuilding Earth’s Forest Corridors
Teresa Coady
Communication
Civility and its Discontents
Erica Etelson
Social Justice
Freedom and Energy from Healing White Racism
John Bell
Nature
Howling in Place
Amy Logan
Economy
Wall Street to Main Street to World Street
Lilia C. Clemente
Quantum
The Science of Oneness
Loren Swift
Mind
Covid-19 is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection
Paul Levy
Leadership
Our Finest Hour, If We Choose
Joshua Spodek

Conversations

Trust
Hitching for Hope, with Ruairí McKiernan
Julian Guderley
Regenerative Economy
John Fullerton on the Qualities of a Regenerative Economy
John Fullerton and Daniel Christian Wahl

Galleries

Beauty
Gazing Into the Heart of Perfection
Harold Feinstein
Homelessness
Shelterless in the Time of COVID-19
Keith Smith

Poetry

Taking Turns
Ann Farley
Weeding the Labyrinth
Margaret Chula
In the Garden
Michele Belluomini
WYSIWYG
Catriona McAlister

Essays

Freedom
Biracial Identity | Seeking to Be Unconditioned
Renée Rolle-Whatley and Ramona Rolle-Berg
Vitality
A Letter to Herman Creek Canyon
Ruth Lizotte
Indigenous
Becoming Medicine
David R. Kopacz, MD and Joseph E. Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow)
Youth Voices
Mind Matters Most
Tara Pinheiro Gibsone
READER's Essay
The Vitality of Paradox
Jamie K. Reaser, PhD
Reader's Essay
Ordinary Grace
O. Fred Donaldson
Leadership
Leading In Unknown Terrain
Audrey Eger Thompson and Jakob van Wielink
A Memory
Wisdom from the Flood
Alain Ruche
Credits

Staff and Advisors

True Wealth 

Introduction

Editorial
The Evolutionary Potential of Wealth
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
True Health | What if the Virus is the Medicine?
Julia Hartsell and Jonathan Hadas Edwards

Articles

Commons
The Treasure of Our Living, Relational Commons
David Bollier
Investment
Soil Wealth and a Regenerative Green New Deal
Ronnie Cummins
Cosmology
The Power of Allurement
Betsey Crawford
activism
How We Win | Divestment and Nonviolent Direct Action
George Lakey
Economy
Advertising and Trading | The Markets’ Problem Twins
Hazel Henderson
Peacebuilding
Vision for a City of Hope Near Auschwitz
Nina Meyerhof

Conversations

Whole Systems
Bioregions and Regeneration | Honoring the Places Where We Live
Daniel Wahl and Kosha Joubert
Revolution
Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography
Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

Essays

Civilization
Economic Justice and Ecological Regeneration
Jeremy Lent
Inheritance
Wrestling with Wealth and Class
Simon Mont
Bioregions
Joy and Value of Connection to Place and Community
Malinda Clatterbuck
Mindfulness
Breakfast Table Revelation
Hai-An (Sister Ocean)
From a Kosmos Reader
Safe Houses | Giving Refuge
Carolyn Brigit Flynn
From a Kosmos Reader
Good Fortune
Marilyn DuHamel

Poetry

Two Poems by Joy McDowell
Joy McDowell
Two Poems by Diane Kendig
Diane Kendig
Blaxit
Joanne Godley
Two Poems by Ellen Waterson
Ellen Waterston

Galleries

Interbeing
Love Letters from Seaweed
Katherine Minott
Identity
In the Hands of Alchemy
Jerry Wennstrom

Mixed Media

Podcasts
greenplanet-blueplanet | Sacred Economy and Caring
Julian Guderley
New Cosmology
Fragile Gold
Sam Guarnaccia
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Staff and Advisors

Possible Futures Regeneration, Connection and Values

Introduction

Editorial
A Story Still Unfolding
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Holding a Seed for the Future
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Transition
From What Is to What If
Rob Hopkins
Earth Law
Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Future Economics
Ten Economic Insights of Rudolf Steiner
C. Otto Scharmer
Service
The Unexpected Journey of Caring
Donna Thomson and Zachary White
Future Democracy
Re-Imagining America
Christopher Schaefer
New Paradigm
The Alchemy of Power
Joni Carley

Conversations

Worldview
The Next Civilization, with Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent
Presencing
Collective Trauma and Our Emerging Future 
C. Otto Scharmer and Thomas Hübl

Music

Restorative Justice
Freedom to Make Music
Hugh Christopher Brown
Love
Sacred Season Gathering of Songs
Kari Auerbach

Essays

Responsibility
Global Social Witnessing
Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann
Caring
A Cry for Help
Michael Gray
From a Kosmos Reader
Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
Cornelia Reynolds
From a Kosmos Reader
Active Hope | Time with Joanna Macy
Betsey Crawford
Consciousness
Healing the Wounded Mind
Kingsley L. Dennis
Beauty
Art in a Time of Catastrophe
Peter Reason and Sarah Gillespie

Poetry

Three Poems
Lee McCormack
Ephemera
Carrie La Seur
Two Poems
Laurel Radzieski
Our Scarlet Blue Wounds
Emmett Wheatfall

Galleries

Reflection
Kito Mbiango | The Power of Art to Drive Action
Jill Van den Brule
Science and Art
Closer Looking | Microscopy and Aboriginal Art
Jenny Whiting
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Possible Futures Regeneration, Connection and Values

Introduction

Editorial
A Story Still Unfolding
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
Holding a Seed for the Future
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Articles

Transition
From What Is to What If
Rob Hopkins
Earth Law
Thomas Berry and the Rights of Nature
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim
Future Economics
Ten Economic Insights of Rudolf Steiner
C. Otto Scharmer
Service
The Unexpected Journey of Caring
Donna Thomson and Zachary White
Future Democracy
Re-Imagining America
Christopher Schaefer
New Paradigm
The Alchemy of Power
Joni Carley

Conversations

Worldview
The Next Civilization, with Jeremy Lent
Jeremy Lent
Presencing
Collective Trauma and Our Emerging Future 
C. Otto Scharmer and Thomas Hübl

Music

Restorative Justice
Freedom to Make Music
Hugh Christopher Brown
Love
Sacred Season Gathering of Songs
Kari Auerbach

Essays

Responsibility
Global Social Witnessing
Adrian Wagner and Lukas Herrmann
Caring
A Cry for Help
Michael Gray
From a Kosmos Reader
Hopeful Essay Penned by Firelight
Cornelia Reynolds
From a Kosmos Reader
Active Hope | Time with Joanna Macy
Betsey Crawford
Consciousness
Healing the Wounded Mind
Kingsley L. Dennis
Beauty
Art in a Time of Catastrophe
Peter Reason and Sarah Gillespie

Poetry

Three Poems
Lee McCormack
Ephemera
Carrie La Seur
Two Poems
Laurel Radzieski
Our Scarlet Blue Wounds
Emmett Wheatfall

Galleries

Reflection
Kito Mbiango | The Power of Art to Drive Action
Jill Van den Brule
Science and Art
Closer Looking | Microscopy and Aboriginal Art
Jenny Whiting
Credits

Staff and Advisors

New Spirit, Wise Action 

Introduction

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

Articles

Interbeing
Fourteen Recommendations When Facing Climate Tragedy
Jem Bendell
Stewardship
Restoring the Housatonic River Walk
Suzanne Fowle
Grass Roots
Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance
Lisa Fithian
Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Code of Global Ethics
Gary Gach
Intention
Every Act a Ceremony
Charles Eisenstein
Peacebuilding
Inner Work Makes Our Outer Work Massively More Effective
Scilla Elworthy, PhD
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
Off-Grid
Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living
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
Men at the End of Their Strings
Tim Kahl
What You Cross the Street to Avoid
Bill Ayres
A Long Convalescence
Judith Skillman

Essays

Media Literacy
Decoding the Trump Virus
Christopher Schaefer
Integral
Seven Practices of ‘Holistic Activism’
Alan Levin
Thought Forms
Memes, Mantras, and Modern Illusions of the Eternal
Kit Storjohann
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
Credits

Staff and Advisors

New Spirit, Wise Action 

Introduction

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

Articles

Interbeing
Fourteen Recommendations When Facing Climate Tragedy
Jem Bendell
Stewardship
Restoring the Housatonic River Walk
Suzanne Fowle
Grass Roots
Shut It Down: Stories From a Fierce, Loving Resistance
Lisa Fithian
Mindfulness
Thich Nhat Hanh’s Code of Global Ethics
Gary Gach
Intention
Every Act a Ceremony
Charles Eisenstein
Peacebuilding
Inner Work Makes Our Outer Work Massively More Effective
Scilla Elworthy, PhD
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
Off-Grid
Kendra Smith | The Disappearing Art of Living
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
Men at the End of Their Strings
Tim Kahl
What You Cross the Street to Avoid
Bill Ayres
A Long Convalescence
Judith Skillman

Essays

Media Literacy
Decoding the Trump Virus
Christopher Schaefer
Integral
Seven Practices of ‘Holistic Activism’
Alan Levin
Thought Forms
Memes, Mantras, and Modern Illusions of the Eternal
Kit Storjohann
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
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Summer 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
Resonance and Relationship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
To All My Relations
Martin Winiecki

Articles

Reversing Desertification
The Holy Grail of Restoration
John D. Liu
Extraction Economy
Freeing the Dragon
Barbara Kovats
Social Justice
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
John Bell
Causes and Visions
Rhino Conservation
Heather Smith
Restoration
Bringing Reefs Back to Life
Sam Teicher
Book
Farming While Black
Leah Penniman
Social Justice and Health
Selfcare Freedom
Pamela Boyce Simms
Living Earth
The Stones Will Cry Out
Mark Wallace

Conversations

Global Commons
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon
Belén Paez and Bill Twist
Mindfulness
Eating as if Life and the Planet Mattered
Joaquin Carral, Marge Wurgel, Aurora Leon

Music

Living Traditions
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Inter-species Collaboration
Among the Nightingales in Berlin
David Rothenberg

Essays

Resisting Monoculture
Reforestation in Portugal
Laura Williams
Ceremony
Dancing with Animals
Dinali Devasagayam
Coexistence
Cooperation with Wild Boars in Palestine
Saad Dagher
Reverie
Killing Us Softly
Gregg Kleiner
The New Cosmology
Where Are We in the Story of the Universe?
Keith Mesecher
Consciousness
Borders of Our Perception
Peter Wells
Reader's Essay
The Gift of Tears
Margaret Miller
Reader's Essay
A Song of Pause
Kirsi Jansa

Poetry

Two Poems
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Three Poems
Lois Marie Harrod
Two Poems
Sharon Hilberer
Three Poems
Marnie Heenan

Galleries

Conscious Consuming
Captives of Our Desire
Cally Whitham
Mountain-Top Removal
Documenting Land Trauma
Vivian Stockman
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Summer 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
Resonance and Relationship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
To All My Relations
Martin Winiecki

Articles

Reversing Desertification
The Holy Grail of Restoration
John D. Liu
Extraction Economy
Freeing the Dragon
Barbara Kovats
Social Justice
Developing a Mindful Approach to Earth Justice Work
John Bell
Causes and Visions
Rhino Conservation
Heather Smith
Restoration
Bringing Reefs Back to Life
Sam Teicher
Book
Farming While Black
Leah Penniman
Social Justice and Health
Selfcare Freedom
Pamela Boyce Simms
Living Earth
The Stones Will Cry Out
Mark Wallace

Conversations

Global Commons
Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon
Belén Paez and Bill Twist
Mindfulness
Eating as if Life and the Planet Mattered
Joaquin Carral, Marge Wurgel, Aurora Leon

Music

Living Traditions
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Inter-species Collaboration
Among the Nightingales in Berlin
David Rothenberg

Essays

Resisting Monoculture
Reforestation in Portugal
Laura Williams
Ceremony
Dancing with Animals
Dinali Devasagayam
Coexistence
Cooperation with Wild Boars in Palestine
Saad Dagher
Reverie
Killing Us Softly
Gregg Kleiner
The New Cosmology
Where Are We in the Story of the Universe?
Keith Mesecher
Consciousness
Borders of Our Perception
Peter Wells
Reader's Essay
The Gift of Tears
Margaret Miller
Reader's Essay
A Song of Pause
Kirsi Jansa

Poetry

Two Poems
Sarah Brown Weitzman
Three Poems
Lois Marie Harrod
Two Poems
Sharon Hilberer
Three Poems
Marnie Heenan

Galleries

Conscious Consuming
Captives of Our Desire
Cally Whitham
Mountain-Top Removal
Documenting Land Trauma
Vivian Stockman
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Spring 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
The Earth is Doing Her Best
Rhonda Fabian
Convening CCC19
Dancing with Gaia
Stephanie Mines

Articles

Great Turning
The Community Awaiting Us
Joanna Macy
Mythos
Turtles Among Us
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD
Preparedness
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Michael Lerner
Abundance
Book | Trees of Power
Akiva Silver
Global Data
Paradise Lost | The Sequel
Said E. Dawlabani
Vocation
Cultivating Right Livelihood
Della Duncan and Mark Phillips
Nature
Quiet Places Initiative
Gordon Hempton
Nonduality
Rising Earth Consciousness
Alfredo Sfeir-Younis (Dzambling Cho Tab Khen)

Conversations

Voices | CCC19
Consciousness and the Combustion Engine
Stephanie Mines and Robert E. Yuhnke
Voices | CCC19
The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay
Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin

Essays

Awe
Look Up!
Valerie Brown
Anima Mundi
Rejoining the Great Conversation
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Quantum
Physics and Spirituality
Claudius van Wyk
Gratefulness
A Vision for the World
Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
Transition
Chama River Revelations
Marilyn DuHamel
Law
Rights of Nature
Betsey Crawford
Ecosystem
Council of the Wild Gods
Geneen Marie Haugen
Ecovillages
The Power of Community
Kosha Joubert

Galleries

Emergence
Gallery 1 | In the Realm of the World’s Heart
Dianne Grob
Hues
Gallery 2 | Flower Flourescence
Craig Burrows
Deep Ecology
Gallery 3 | Guardians of the Sacred in Tibet
Diane Barker

Music

Cosmology
Emergent Universe Oratorio
Kari Auerbach and Sam Guarnaccia
Indigenous
A Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin
Kari Auerbach and Alanis Obomsawin

Poetry

Three Poems from Reverberations from Fukushima
Leah Stenson
Three Poems
Jake Sheff
Two Poems
John Grey
Dear Reed Canyon
Sage Cohen
Two Poems
Judith Arcana
Three Poems
Jan Chronister
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Spring 2019 

Introduction

Editorial
The Earth is Doing Her Best
Rhonda Fabian
Convening CCC19
Dancing with Gaia
Stephanie Mines

Articles

Great Turning
The Community Awaiting Us
Joanna Macy
Mythos
Turtles Among Us
Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD
Preparedness
Resilience, the Global Challenge, and the Human Predicament
Michael Lerner
Abundance
Book | Trees of Power
Akiva Silver
Global Data
Paradise Lost | The Sequel
Said E. Dawlabani
Vocation
Cultivating Right Livelihood
Della Duncan and Mark Phillips
Nature
Quiet Places Initiative
Gordon Hempton
Nonduality
Rising Earth Consciousness
Alfredo Sfeir-Younis (Dzambling Cho Tab Khen)

Conversations

Voices | CCC19
Consciousness and the Combustion Engine
Stephanie Mines and Robert E. Yuhnke
Voices | CCC19
The Lie of the Land | Conversation and Essay
Margaret Elphinstone and Marie Goodwin

Essays

Awe
Look Up!
Valerie Brown
Anima Mundi
Rejoining the Great Conversation
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Quantum
Physics and Spirituality
Claudius van Wyk
Gratefulness
A Vision for the World
Br. David Steindl-Rast, OSB
Transition
Chama River Revelations
Marilyn DuHamel
Law
Rights of Nature
Betsey Crawford
Ecosystem
Council of the Wild Gods
Geneen Marie Haugen
Ecovillages
The Power of Community
Kosha Joubert

Galleries

Emergence
Gallery 1 | In the Realm of the World’s Heart
Dianne Grob
Hues
Gallery 2 | Flower Flourescence
Craig Burrows
Deep Ecology
Gallery 3 | Guardians of the Sacred in Tibet
Diane Barker

Music

Cosmology
Emergent Universe Oratorio
Kari Auerbach and Sam Guarnaccia
Indigenous
A Conversation with Alanis Obomsawin
Kari Auerbach and Alanis Obomsawin

Poetry

Three Poems from Reverberations from Fukushima
Leah Stenson
Three Poems
Jake Sheff
Two Poems
John Grey
Dear Reed Canyon
Sage Cohen
Two Poems
Judith Arcana
Three Poems
Jan Chronister
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Winter 2018 Global Citizen, Global Spirit

Introduction

Editorial
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All
Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

Articles

Partnership Society
Breaking Out of the Domination Trance
Riane Eisler
Interspirituality
Evolving Toward Cooperation
Kurt Johnson
Diversity
On Edge Work, Migration Flows, and Glocalization
May East
Indigenous
Returning to Indigenous Worldview
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs
Governance
Liquid Democracy and the Future of Governance
Andrew Petrisin
New Economy
BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul
Michael Foley
Psychology
Delivering the UN Global Goals | The Consciousness Perspective
Richard Barrett
Commons
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
David Bollier

Conversations

Consciousness
On Elevating the Human Narrative
Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian
Refugee Crisis
FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea
Skye Fitzgerald
Values
For Love of Place | Reflections of an Agrarian Sage
Wendell Berry and Allen White

Essays

Systems
Sacred Diplomacy in the Emerging Ecozoic Era
Merle Lefkoff
Political Identity
Globalism-Nationalism, the New Left-Right
Jordan Pittman
New Economy
The Economics of Solidarity, Spirit, and Soul
Shaun Chamberlin
Pedagogy
Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education
Ambassador Choonghee Hahn
Reader's Essay
Caring for the Soul of Humanity
Bruna Kadletz
Reader's Essay
A Pocket Full of Stones
Vivienne Hull

Galleries

Human Displacement
The Most Important Thing
Brian Sokol
Energy
Being and Becoming in a Field of Resonance
Loren Olson

Poetry

Three Poems
Willa Schneberg
An Overcast Morning, I Sit Down To Write
Melanie Green
Almost Bethlehem
Maria Robinson
The Rebel’s Silhouette
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Razbliuto
Darlene Pagán
Las Vegas
Brandon Marlon

Music

Young Change Agents
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free
Kari Auerbach
World Harmony
Playing for Change
Kari Auerbach

Documents

Primary Resource
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights Commission
Interspirituality
Toward a Global Ethic
Dr. Hans Küng, et al
Disarmament
Statement on the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Granoff
Primary Resource
The Earth Charter
Earth Charter International
Credits

Staff and Advisors

Winter 2018 Global Citizen, Global Spirit

Introduction

Editorial
The Practice of Global Citizenship
Rhonda Fabian
Keynote
We Are All Global Citizens | Seeing Ourselves in the Advancement of All
Joni Carley and Daniel Perell

Articles

Partnership Society
Breaking Out of the Domination Trance
Riane Eisler
Interspirituality
Evolving Toward Cooperation
Kurt Johnson
Diversity
On Edge Work, Migration Flows, and Glocalization
May East
Indigenous
Returning to Indigenous Worldview
Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), aka Donald Trent Jacobs
Governance
Liquid Democracy and the Future of Governance
Andrew Petrisin
New Economy
BOOK | Farming for the Long Haul
Michael Foley
Psychology
Delivering the UN Global Goals | The Consciousness Perspective
Richard Barrett
Commons
The Insurgent Power of the Commons in the War Against the Imagination
David Bollier

Conversations

Consciousness
On Elevating the Human Narrative
Judy Rodgers, Gayatri Naraine, Rhonda Fabian
Refugee Crisis
FILM | LIFEBOAT, Refugees Adrift at Sea
Skye Fitzgerald
Values
For Love of Place | Reflections of an Agrarian Sage
Wendell Berry and Allen White

Essays

Systems
Sacred Diplomacy in the Emerging Ecozoic Era
Merle Lefkoff
Political Identity
Globalism-Nationalism, the New Left-Right
Jordan Pittman
New Economy
The Economics of Solidarity, Spirit, and Soul
Shaun Chamberlin
Pedagogy
Global Citizenship | An Emerging Agenda in Education
Ambassador Choonghee Hahn
Reader's Essay
Caring for the Soul of Humanity
Bruna Kadletz
Reader's Essay
A Pocket Full of Stones
Vivienne Hull

Galleries

Human Displacement
The Most Important Thing
Brian Sokol
Energy
Being and Becoming in a Field of Resonance
Loren Olson

Poetry

Three Poems
Willa Schneberg
An Overcast Morning, I Sit Down To Write
Melanie Green
Almost Bethlehem
Maria Robinson
The Rebel’s Silhouette
Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Razbliuto
Darlene Pagán
Las Vegas
Brandon Marlon

Music

Young Change Agents
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez | Break Free
Kari Auerbach
World Harmony
Playing for Change
Kari Auerbach

Documents

Primary Resource
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Human Rights Commission
Interspirituality
Toward a Global Ethic
Dr. Hans Küng, et al
Disarmament
Statement on the Unique Challenge of Nuclear Weapons
Jonathan Granoff
Primary Resource
The Earth Charter
Earth Charter International
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
Interbeing
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb
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
The Fairy Begs for Bacon
Becca Menon
finals time
Climbing Sun