‘Being’ As the New Paradigm

"The old story of separation that is at the core of our cultural program until now has shaped our development model’s priority: that of “having,” measured in countries’ GDP, which still prevails as the metric for assessing countries’ relative levels of development. This focus has created an imbalance, a relative inner underdevelopment, an ethical crisis that threatens our future."

Ocean of Wisdom

I call the Ocean ‘grandmother’ because life was created in her waters some 3.5 billion years ago, and a little bit later the continents also emerged. These are the beginnings of the Biosphere as we know it today, whose secrets lie deep within her. Slowly but surely, the first photosynthetic organisms started releasing tiny bubbles of oxygen from her depths into the atmosphere. The ocean’s oxygen…

Gary Malkin

Gary Malkin is a multiple Emmy award-winning composer, producer, public speaker, music & wellness consultant dedicated to harnessing music’s capacity to cultivate multi-dimensional coherence, especially during the most challenging transitions and phases of our lives. The composer/producer of the globally-acclaimed listening resource, Graceful Passages, (co-created with Michael and Doris…

Arthur Lyon Dahl

For over sixty years, Arthur Lyon Dahl PhD has combined a scientific career exploring unity in diversity in the coral reef ecosystem, work as an international civil servant and senior official of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and a lifelong Bahá'í demonstrating the harmony of science and religion. He is President of the International Environment Forum, a Bahá'í-inspired…

Reflections on Gaza, Israel and our collective pain

I know that the situation in Gaza and Israel has impacted your heart and mind. Maybe, like me, you’ve alternately felt heartsick, angry, confused, judgmental, numb, compassionate, and more. I for one start with feeling humble and poorly informed before the enormity of the situation.

Deschooling Dialogues | Alnoor Ladha with Sophie Strand

DESCHOOLING DIALOGUES Episode 3 – Alnoor Ladha with Sophie Strand In this episode of Deschooling Dialogues, host Alnoor Ladha talks with Sophie Strand. She is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her “a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that…

Should I have Children? | Lessons from Brown Bears

While female Bears may parent on their own, they are partnered at every step with Mother Nature. Every aspect of a Bear is shaped in relationship with Nature’s grain. This refined union of self with surroundings has been passed through innumerable generations over millions of years. To optimize their children’s security and wellness, mothers-to-be must be aware of external states as well as their…

Mind and Music

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…

Thomas Berry on Intuition

“You can’t understand the universe simply through science—it is one way of knowing directed toward analysis and use. The intuition is another way of knowing through the heart—the song of the birds, the sky at night, the magnificence of mountains and seas.' - Thomas Berry

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.