Culture and Change

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Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon

Journal Article

Bill Twist | What is particularly inspiring about this initiative is that the indigenous groups, although clearly working to protect their territories, also see that this project is for the world and that it is setting a conservation example for the world.

Published in Summer 2019 By Belén Paez and Bill Twist

Decoding the Trump Virus

Journal Article

He has clearly become a global meme, capturing humanity’s attention and drawing psychic energy from millions of people hanging on his every word and action. What impact does this have on us and what power does it give him?

Published in Fall 2019 By Christopher Schaefer

Big Lazy | Music for Unsettling Times

Journal Article

Simultaneously noir and pastoral, gothic and modern, Big Lazy conjures images of everything from big sky country to seedy back rooms.

Published in Fall 2019 By Kari Auerbach

Burning Man | What We’ve Learned

Journal Article

"We don’t need a blueprint, we don’t want a master plan, we just need to practice the skills and create the kind of spaces we want to live in, and share them."

Published in Fall 2019 By Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London

The Sun of Darkness

Journal Article

The center and the periphery are changing places. This is part of a larger epochal shift that we can best understand through a mythological and cosmological lens.

Published in Fall 2019 By Daniel Pinchbeck

Freedom to Make Music

Journal Article

The Pros and Cons Program in Canada mentors inmates in a music program that focuses on rehabilitation and restorative justice. The program was founded by Hugh Christopher Brown. He and the inmates write, arrange and record songs entirely within the confines of the prison walls.

Published in Winter 2019 By Hugh Christopher Brown

greenplanet-blueplanet | Sacred Economy and Caring

Journal Article

Julian Guderley is on a quest to identify and interview the top 500 key players in the Regenerative Movement.

Published in Spring 2020 By Julian Guderley

Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography

Journal Article

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.

Published in Spring 2020 By Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

Shelterless in the Time of COVID-19

Journal Article

I have a deep concern for what is happening with the homeless in Los Angeles, especially in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. I wondered if any programs were offering assistance, and so decided to head downtown with my camera to document what was happening on the street.

Published in Summer 2020 By Keith Smith

Hitching for Hope, with Ruairí McKiernan

Journal Article

I think there’s a great moment upon us now, whereby all the rules are being disrupted. I was about to say a rewritten, but they’re not rewritten yet.

Published in Summer 2020 By Julian Guderley