Co-creators

CO-CREATORS          We are at the end of the Modern Age.  Doomsayers decry humankind as the scourge of the earth.  It would have been better had we not existed.  Our spiritual dimension searches for God in the developing chaos.  We search our heritage for the meaning of the events that are so evident before us, looking for signs of hope that the…

New Definitions Of Community And The ‘Health Of The Whole’

New Definitions of Community and the ‘Health of the Whole’ © Chara Armon, Ph.D.  http://mutualflourishing.org What if a caterpillar or lake is just as much your sibling as your human brothers and sisters?  I suggest that new definitions of community are flourishing in our time.  As I listen to numerous thinkers and activists who are now defining ‘community’ in terms of the entire life…

Loving What Is

My personal experiences through the 12-21-12 gateway and beyond had thrown me onto a roller coaster of highly charged emotions and experiences. The next six weeks (January to mid-February) contained  many moments of sudden and quite profound feelings of love which were then followed by a health crisis of huge proportions in which fear dominated my days and nights. On a conscious level, I had…

Jim Lobe

About Jim Lobe Jim Lobe has served as Washington D.C. correspondent and chief of the Washington bureau of Inter Press Service (IPS), an international news agency specializing in coverage of issues and events of interest to developing countries, from 1980 to 1985, and again from 1989 to the present. Since 9/11, Jim has focused much of his coverage on U.S. policy in the Middle East and the…

Spinning for the Commons

On a shelf in the Library of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics sits a small wooden box with worn leather handle—13 inches by 8 inches by 2 inches. It opens to reveal the parts of an apparatus for spinning cotton. Govindra Deshpande presented this traveling spinning wheel to Bob Swann at the "Tools for Building Sustainable Local Economies" seminar convened in 1983 by the E. F.…

Welcome to Transformation

Can fusing personal and social change radically transform our societies? We say yes. Michael Edwards introduces open Democracy’s new section: Transformation. On a winter’s night in 1955, a young preacher named Martin Luther King climbed into the pulpit of the Holt Street Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Once there, he delivered a speech to a packed crowd of close to five…

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009–2011 she served as director of policy planning for the U.S. Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Prior to her government service, Slaughter was the dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International…

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland

Author of "Everybody Matters: A Memoir." One of the most admired, accomplished and respected women in the world. Her remarkable career spans decades of public service as President of Ireland, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Chair of the Council for Women World Leaders, Presidents of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, Member of the Elders, and Founder, Mary…

Conscious Evolution: Leaping Into Possibility

It’s 2013. You have probably noticed. We survived the end of days, so what now? What is humanity’s future? It is 39 years since the Futurist magazine published Prof. Clare W. Graves’ article titled “Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap,” which contained predictions for our future that have proved remarkably prescient. The conditions that Graves anticipated…

The Frontier of Science and Education

Emerging Wholes - Expanding Our Worldview The end of reductionism Since Galileo, science has had a bias towards simplification for the very sensible and practical reason that it was all it could handle. Nothing is wrong with this as long as the limitation of the method is not projected onto reality, limiting it. If all you have is a thermometer, then everything is a temperature. But we now…