Synthesis and the Intuitive Mind

The widespread accessibility of the spiritual commons today is significant because it prepares us for revelation and sets us on a path towards new understandings of synthesis, and a new awareness of the relation between part and whole; self and other; local national and global.

Waters of Spirit

These abundant collective resources also include ancestral wisdom, feelings of gratitude, wonder and awe, appreciation for beauty, our powers of concentration and insight, our capacity to awaken, spiritual traditions, and personal practices such as prayer and meditation. I see our spiritual commons as a river of pure life-giving waters that each of us can draw from freely. In this edition of…

Multimedia

Mixed MediaReadings, Video, Music, and More Video Joanna Macy | Climate Crisis as Spiritual Path By Old Dog Documentaries This 20-minute (fully transcribed) video of Joanna Macy is derived from previously unused outtakes for a film released in 2014, titled: 'The Wisdom to Survive'. Upon review of…

Essays

EssaysInsights from our community New Paradigm The Holomovement By Emanuel Kuntzelman and Jill Robinson In recognition of Bohm’s vision and the subsequent realization of the synergistic energy arising, the term “holomovement” perfectly describes the sociological phenomenon underlying the worldwide movement…

Poetry

Poetry...when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. - Robert Frost Carolyn Martin | Editor Lord of the Forest | Good Fences By Dana Sonnenschein Evolutionary. Like the way people changed enough to make this place, where wolves find peace and time to contemplate their kin and…

Galleries

GalleriesOur featured artists Climate The Atlas of Disappearing Places By Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros Christina painted these maps on sheets of dried “sea lettuce,” members of the genus Ulva, a group of green macroalgae found in many parts of the world. All of the maps in this book were created from a…

Features

ArticlesOur featured contributors Identity The Soul of Nations By Wolfgang Aurose What is urgently needed is a unifying and updated understanding of what a nation is today, and what it has to become in order to contribute to what might be a shared and peaceful future world. Read more…

Introduction

Introduction Preface Synthesis and the Intuitive Mind By Steve Nation The widespread accessibility of the spiritual commons today is significant because it prepares us for revelation and sets us on a path towards new understandings of synthesis, and a new awareness of the relation between part and whole; self…

Marina Psaros

Marina Psaros is a sustainability expert and has led climate action programs across public, private, and nonprofit organizations for over a decade. She is one of the creators of The King Tides Project, an international community science and education initiative. An amateur cartographer and ocean advocate, she lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.