Operator’s Guide For Human Being: Early Draft

We have all heard about the frog in the steadily warming pot, the Kermie that has no clue its legs are being prepared for dinner.  What if a similar fate has befallen a critical mass of humans?  What if our context has cooked us up into something quite different, and we have missed the import of these changes?  What if we have already become the solution to the problems of our…

Building the Cloud: Hearing Gaia

The coupling of electricity with our nervous system over a century and a half ago started the process of what the prescient media sage Marshall LcLuhan called 'the outering of our nervous system.' From the one-to-one communications technologies of the telegraph and telephone, to the one-to-many forms of broadcast radio and television, and the all-to-all global grids of the Internet and social…

Collective Presencing – Part Four | The Circle of Creation: Building Capacity for Generative Collective Action in Service of Life

The earlier three articles in this series describe the new human capacity we are calling Collective Presencing. Part One gave an overview of the two phases we see unfolding as a collection of individuals learns to become a collective capable of employing this capacity on behalf of the whole: firstly, becoming a Circle of Presence, then becoming a Circle of Creation. Part Two described in more…

Getting to Know the Neighbors

Living Earth Television's (LETV) work is introducing neighbors around the world through documentaries, and I do that with film and with Kosmos Journal. The pages of Kosmos are often so rich and dense that I need to pause frequently when reading and viewing to just absorb the tumble of recognition, ideas and appreciation they generate. Documentary films often offer me the same richness of…

Guardians of Future Generations

"I dreamed that I was standing next to a young tree. It was the Tree of Life. One branch was dead. The tree was dying from the changing climate. I was charged with keeping it alive for future generations." Read more.

Love of Humanity Made Manifest

Sometimes we live with a word for decades and consider that we know exactly what it means, what it refers to and how best to use it. I did not title this article "Philanthropy" because I imagined that readers might turn the page to avoid this conversation. I wonder how many of us know the real meaning of this word. Read more here.

New Global Governance is in the Making, and It Looks Good

If governance is the art of governing, then it is clear that governance is in crisis, at every level. The level at which governance is most often conceived—the nation state—is simply unworkable. International organizations lack legitimacy, are stuck by vested interests and are ruled by the majority. Nobody believes anymore in reforming the UN Security Council. What is striking is that most of the…

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…

The Living Universe: Why Do We Need to Know Whether or Not the Universe is Alive?

We shape our lives according to the way we view the world. Our perception and understanding of that world govern the decisions we make and the underlying motivations. People's outlook on the world has for centuries been dominated by the general view of the Universe as it is given by the science of physics. Following this perspective, the Universe is, in essence, lifeless. According to that view,…