Morning Rituals To Feed The Soul

It’s an overcast, blustery morning on the shores of Lake Chautauqua. The sun has just risen and is trying hard to break through the clouds. I’m the first to arrive this morning out on the point of the bell tower peninsula. I want to claim my special spot under a particular willow tree right beside the water. It’s a spot I’ve been sitting in nearly every summer for more…

The New Spirituality

Ever since I was a little nine-year old, I wrote idealistic poetry arising from an innocent heart that burst with love and compassion! During confirmation year at my Jewish temple, I was ignited by the assertion that since the Big Bang, there has been a forward-moving trajectory toward a Messianic Era when the "lion will lie down with the lamb," when "war shall be no more", when humans…

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 Marshal McLuhan’s called, “the outering 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…

What’s In A Pause? Transformation Potential: Evolving What You Profess – In The Moment. Ian Wight, Associate Professor, City Planning, University Of Manitoba

[Education - New ways of learning] Can you pause - for a moment - that could be potentially transformative? A stop that is actually a movement, in the direction of new possibilities, for some growth, some development – of your consciousness, your self-awareness. A cessation of your conventional default auto-pilot mode… that is actually a creative act, triggering a change in…

Danah Boyd

My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School, a Fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I am an academic and a scholar and my research examines social media, youth…

Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis writes the BuzzMachine blog. He is a former TV critic for TV Guide and People, and helped create Entertainment Weekly. Until recently, he was president and creative director of the online arm of Advance Publications. He is now working on a new news startup, and with the New York Times at About.com. Later this year, he will become associate professor and director of the new media…

Margaret Sullivan

Margaret Sullivan is the fifth public editor appointed by The New York Times. She writes about the Times and its journalism in a frequent blog – the Public Editor’s Journal — and in a twice-monthly print column in the Sunday Review section. The public editor’s office also handles questions and comments from readers and investigates matters of journalistic integrity. The…

Robert Crane’s Compassionate Justice: A Just Third Way As Economic System

Robert Crane’s Compassionate Justice: A Just Third Way as Economic System By Wanda Krause Introduction Robert D. Crane offers an integral economic system. He encapsulates principles in an economic system called the Third Just Way and premises this system on compassionate justice. He suggests Qatar as a possible model in development of this Third Just Way but argues that the real success of…

Wisdom Education Is Not About Being An Expert On The Knowledge Of Wisdom; It Is About Becoming Wise

Wisdom is a symptom of an emotionally healthy brain. Focusing on the symptom is like focusing on the smoke to understand the fire.For thousands of years our wisdom experts have been asking the same old question again and again, 'What is wisdom?'. The answer after all these years is still pretty much elusive because of the very nature of wisdom. Even when we know what is wisdom we still have to…