Killing Us Softly
...it's hard to be part of this fossil fuel poisoning, which, ultimately, is a collective suicide. I wish I knew how to save our species, but nobody could save Mr. Stone, or the classmate our daughter lost in high school, or the family friend who left the note pinned to his shirt.
Sam Lee | Birdsong Hits the Charts
By Sam Lee and Kari Auerbach
Sam Lee is a British singer of traditional folk songs, a collector, an archivist, a conservationist, and a radical re-interpreter of the British folk tradition. He is the driving force behind the eclectic, award-winning folk club 'The Nest Collective', and an emerging figure in the Extinction Rebellion movement.
Collective Trauma and Our Emerging Future
By C. Otto Scharmer and Thomas Hübl
When we talk about the current situation in the 21st century, one of the few things most people would agree on is that, yes, we do live in an age of disruption. That means the future is going to be different from the past.
Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography
By Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner
Alnoor | When people ask me, "what’s the most important thing I can do," I often say to people, especially in the spiritual community: to understand how neoliberalism works. We must understand how capitalism works because it is the very oxygen in which we are breathing. It has intermediated every aspect of our lives.
Advertising and Trading | The Markets’ Problem Twins
My view is that while capitalism may not survive in any of its current forms, markets will continue since they are deeply coded in the cultural DNA of all human societies. Today, we see new markets and new commons as we explore the evolving global playing field. Markets can be tamed, transformed as they always have been, guided by robust feedback from investors, NGOs, community norms, new…
Covid-19 is a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection
By Paul Levy
For almost twenty years I’ve been writing about an invisible, contagious death-creating virus that no one is immune to that has been insidiously spreading and replicating itself throughout the human species. This deadly disease is a virus of the mind—the Native Americans call it “wetiko."
Civility and its Discontents
Dialogue across the political divide often replicates the Eurocentric cycle of harm and revenge, but it doesn’t have to.
The Power of the Immersive Arts to Catalyze a More Peaceful World
By Gary Malkin
"Immersive art forms have the power to deeply resonate and transform people. They intentionally combine experiential elements such as music, spoken word, and poignant imagery to catalyze proactive changes in our emotional, somatic, and spiritual states. When the need for compassion and tolerance is more important than ever before, it's vital that we explore new ways to tap into these arts…
Mind and Music
By Andrew Lipke
Written music - you're creating a thing that will never actually happen. It's a soundless music that is essentially just a set of instructions that everybody who plays it will to some degree approach but never land on because it's not possible. That's why you can play classical music for two hundred, three hundred years and never be done, because there is no definitive version of the piece of…
Listening for the Long Song
Before energy manifests as form it lives as a frequency, a vibrating song within a womb of silence. We all have an innate capacity to perceive a far wider range of frequencies than we generally engage but most of us have lost our ability to hear the subtle sounds of the Earth and the voices of all her creatures. This collective deafness reinforces the belief that the Earth is mute.