The Luminous Ground

A few days ago as I sat to write, I glanced out the window towards the marina on Lake Washington. Five dogs were running—no, it was more that they were streaking; blurs of black and white, brown and golden fur—down the 60’ dock towards a waiting boat. Their aliveness was infectious. The dogs were free, unrestrained, completely and utterly themselves. Nothing impeded the flow of their life.…

Kavita Byrd

Kavita Byrd works to bring together holistic consciousness and whole-systems change, with an emphasis on evolutionary spirituality and sacred activism. This includes research on ecology, the climate crisis and new economics, integrating spiritual wisdom and radical social action for global transformation. She is author of Quantum Co-Creative Revolution: We Are All in This Together and the poetry…

Dianne Grob

Dianne Grob is a psychotherapist and mixed media artist.  She grew up influenced by the natural world and the wild creatures her family often rehabilitated and released.  Much of her life’s work comes out of her desire to celebrate the beauty in human beings and the greater world.    Dianne lives on Vashon Island with her husband, Richard, and Noah, their Portuguese water dog.

Nature’s Living Intelligence

In our consumer society, we are taught to see the world as a collection of objects to be transformed, sold, used, and, ultimately, to be thrown away. Perhaps that is one reason the enduring vision of the ancient Greeks still speaks to us today, because it was based on a deeper vision of nature in which the world itself was not a collection of objects but a living expression of life, beauty, and…

Will Scott

Will Scott is a co-founder and lead facilitator at the Weaving Earth for Relational Education in Sonoma County, CA. He received his master's degree in holistic experiential education from Prescott College, exploring the essential components of an 'education for our times'. Will's path has been greatly influenced by his work over the past decade as a wilderness-based rites of passage guide and…

On Living Business

What is a ‘living business?’ Using these words both as a search term and as a mirror of our collective consciousness on the Internet offers few helpful explanations. It leaves you with a business-as-usual frame of reference that easily leads to a casual interpretation that a living business must be about profits and growth. How else could such a business be successful and remain alive? But,…

Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore published his classic Care of the Soul in 1992 and has since written twenty books on spirituality, sexuality, myth, religion and depth psychology. His books have been translated into thirty languages. He has taught religious studies and psychology and has been a psychotherapist for over 30 years. He often speaks at C. G. Jung societies and has done special work consulting at major…

Coming Back to Life | Chapter One: To Choose Life

Coming Back to Lifeby Joanna Macy andMolly Young BrownNew Society Publishers2014 To Choose Life Excerpted from Chapter One We live in an extraordinary moment on Earth. We possess more technical prowess and knowledge than our ancestors could have dreamt of. Our telescopes let us see through time to the beginnings of the universe; our microscopes pry open the codes at the core of organic…

Thoughts on a cosmic consciousness and the intricacy of life

As a new humanity awakens in self-thought awareness, our human consciousness is experiencing evolution. We are in a crucial time of complex global issues, that require complex solutions and individuals, which allow for us to build a sustainable future for generations to come. Presently, our collective human consciousness is evolving and becoming more interconnected, transcending the physical,…

Ben Levi

Ben Levi has been a technology hardware and software consultant for almost 30 years, specializing in Macintosh computer systems, database design, and virtual online collaboration. For the past 15 years, he has also focused on the 'wetware' technology of Spiral Dynamics Integral (SDi) and has taught certification courses with Dr. Don Beck for the past five years. He consults with SDi online…