By Mark Phillips, via his blog

featured image, Cliff Matias | Standing Rock Youth gather with supporters in Brooklyn. The new scientific understanding of the universe reveals the radical interdependence of all life on Earth.

By Mark Phillips, via his blog

“The challenge now before humanity is to align our way of being with the latest understanding of what it means to be alive. While applied systems thinking has been studied and popularised by folks like Peter Senge, it is essential that these disciplines are also nested within a larger consciousness of our membership in an evolving community of life on Earth. Otherwise, the application of this knowledge towards increasing corporate profits or more effectively managing industrial agricultural systems is driving us along the same trajectory we’ve been on for the past couple of centuries.

Instead, what we need is a fundamental rethinking of how we live. As Thomas Berry says, ‘we must reinvent the human at the species level’. “