The Invisible Yet Existent Culture of Peace

A Culture of Peace Emerges A new story is emerging. Humanity is the storyteller. The story line is ancient and the global community is right on time as it wakes up. The global community is appalled by many of its own creations and strives to take responsibility for creating a Culture of Peace. Let us call it the Path of Beauty. Ultimately, humanity shifts from living with pain and suffering to…

Redefining the Development Paradigm: Redrawing Boundaries, Deepening Responses, Transforming Lives

India’s challenge today is not one of natural resources. It is not about money, human capital, technology or legislation. It is not merely a question of implementation of laws and distribution systems. Nor can things be ‘fixed’ merely by providing education for all. Clearly something more foundational—more profound—is missing. We need to change our mindsets, redefine development and our…

Daniel Fox | The EPIC Expedition

The oceans have been mesmerizing us ever since Man first set foot on a beach. From the Viking Empire to the Conquest of the Pacific, from Ferdinand Magellan to Francis Drake, from Charles Darwin to Jacques Cousteau, this vast liquid world has seen the greatest of men navigate its uncharted waters. The oceans have inspired us and challenged us. They have created new empires and destroyed others.…

Embodied Spirituality, Now and Then

The Living Body Embodied spirituality regards the body as subject, as the home of the complete human being, as a source of spiritual insight, as a microcosm of the universe and the Mystery, and as pivotal for enduring spiritual transformation. Body as subject: To see the body as subject means to approach it as a living world, with all its interiority and depth, its needs and desires, its…

Positive Possibilities for a World in Crisis

A Letter to a Friend... We join with everyone and everything—past, present and future —in sharing our influence on what happens. We are neither guilty nor innocent. Rather, we are consciously or unconsciously involved in everything. Right here and right now. Our actions matter. Our awareness matters. Because we are a factor in the Life of Everything.  This ultimate application…

Greenkeeping Governance: Toward a Law of the Ecological Commons

At least since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, we have known about humankind's squandering of nonrenewable resources, its careless disregard of precious life species, and its overall contamination and degradation of delicate ecosystems. In recent decades, these defilements have assumed a systemic dimension. Lately we have come to realize the shocking extent to which our atmospheric emission of…

Contemporary Leaders of Courage and Compassion: Competencies and Inner Capacities

Nothing short of a new level of worldwide leadership and commitment for sustainable and equitable change will suffice to create a better world today and for future generations. For the first time technologies and resources exist to transform our situation and generate lasting results. The choice is ours. Hundreds of transformational leaders are producing results in 60 countries on every…

Listening to the Voice of Humanity

When we look at world conditions and project current trends into the future we see much that is disturbing—environmental degradation, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, persisting poverty and injustice, violent conflict, the fiscal collapse of democratic governments. The institutions that have the greatest power—nation states, corporations, and organized interest groups—seem locked in patterns…

Living at the Intersection of Travel and Citizen Diplomacy

By Daniel Noll Revealing the hidden soft diplomacy of inter-connected international travelers.  When my wife and I decided to take a mid-career break and travel around the world, we immediately recognized our role as citizen diplomats—for the United States and the West.  After launching a website and connecting with a growing international community, we sensed a gap. …

Social Media Isn’t Changing the World, It’s Creating a New One

Blogs have been a twitter about Malcolm Gladwell’s New Yorker article last week slamming those who believe social media can revolutionize activism. The article compares the high risk activism of the civil rights movement with Twitter’s role in the Iranian elections concluding that, “the revolution will not be tweeted.” First of all, taking aim at those who are love drunk…