Collective Presencing: Four Years Later
Four years have passed since the first article on Collective Presencing was published in Kosmos Journal, with three more following in the next issues. At that time, the framework was ready, the outline was clear, it was coherent enough to offer into the world. Since then, the big lines haven’t changed, but my understanding of what the new paradigm is about has deepened enormously. My new book…
Tom Christensen
Tom Christensen is Editor of Innovative Development: Emerging Worldviews & Systems Change and Developmental Innovation: Emerging Worldviews & Individual Learning. A student of human nature and Spiral Dynamics, his other works can be found at www.graves3g.com/
Activists for the Evolution of Life
As I look out my window I see a vision of natural beauty that takes my breath away. There’s a special tree I have watched grow from a little twig to a mass of green foliage quivering in the wind with squirrels running up and down the trunk. A little chipmunk scurries into the woodpile outside my door every now and then and sometimes a little bunny, too. My beloved temple dogs, Sophia and Willy,…
They Sang with a Thousand Tongues: The Poetry of Diversity
Let me tell you a story about how the world began. I promise you the story is not completely untrue.
Yoruba elders say that when the world began, there was only sky and water. The Supreme Being, Olórun, ruled the firmaments, while the Divine Feminine, Olokun, was master of the raging seas. One day, Obatala, a son of Olórun, grew restless and sought to create a world between primal sea and…
Regenerative Economies for a Regenerative Civilization
“There is nothing more difficult to plan, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the creator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old system and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new one.”
— Niccolò Machiavelli
Einstein once said, “It is the theory which decides what we can observe.”1
I believe this…
Mystical Anarchism: A Journey to the Borderlands of Freedom
On Beginnings
They say it takes a certain type of personality to be a radical. Questioning of the status quo, anti-authoritarian, angry perhaps, undoubtedly rebellious, critical rather than accepting of what is. Complex analyses and algorithms are deployed to compare shared psychological traits, relationships to authority figures, level of socio-economic privilege, and even birth order. If any…
Engaged Ecology: Seven Practices to Restore Our Harmony with Nature
It has rained steadily through the night, a gentle hushing sound in the thick tree canopy. In the morning light, crickets thrill and every leaf trembles and gleams. Soft mist gently rises as the creek gushes along its deep habitual groove in Rose Valley, a place as beautiful as it sounds: my home.
Amid such grace, one might forget the planet is in chaos. Wars rage… and the trees grow slowly.…
Regenerative Development: Going Beyond Sustainability
Sustainable Development is a half-vast approach to vast problems. Its purpose, to make life on this planet sustainable, is a noble disguise for the maintenance of the status quo. When the status quo includes hundreds of millions of acres of degraded to destroyed farmland and leveled rainforest, depleted to exhausted fisheries and aquifers, toxic-choked streams, decreasing biodiversity, and a…
Shahzor Ali Memon
Shahzor Ali Memon is an avid changemaker who has started a lifelong journey in reaching out to underprivileged communities. At 18 years old and just a high school graduate, Shahzor has mentored many marginalized students in remote villages of Pakistan. Recently, Shahzor recruited other ambassadors for a venture called Youth for Enlightenment and Welfare (YEW), which he fundraises for schools that…
Dennis Kucinich
Having been elected to Cleveland’s City Council at age 23, Dennis J. Kucinich was well-known to Cleveland residents when they chose him as their mayor in 1977 at the age of 31. At the time, Kucinich was the youngest person ever elected to lead a major American city.
In 1978, Cleveland’s banks demanded that he sell the city’s 70 year-old municipally-owned electric system to its private…