Introduction

Editorial

Unlearning Together

For the first time, we have the scientific tools to look inward at the genetic and atomic structures that underlie all Life, Nature's Code unwinding its great story across space and time. For the first time, we understand that Earth is a single great living, breathing ecosystem; humans are but one part. Finally, we are beginning to see that the theories, ideologies, and wars we create are the output of our collective dream—habits of mind.

Editorial

All Consuming!

One way to think about our fall theme, All Consuming!, is to remember that all living beings consume. Plants consume water, sunlight, and nutrients in the soil and convert these into food energy that other beings require to live. Ponder that last sentence. We forget photosynthesis is a true miracle. We, and all our ancestors, are the products of water, sunlight, and soil.