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wonder

The Great Enamorment

In this deeply personal reflection, Lauren de Boer traces humanity’s spectacular evolutionary lineage—from stardust to photosynthesis, respiration, and the human hand—toward a renewed faith in life’s creative unfolding. Drawing on Teilhard de Chardin, he names “the great enamorment” as the universe’s love-in-action, calling us to live as conscious ancestors serving future generations.

Being

Consciousness Is Irreducible

By Federico Faggin

Physicist and microprocessor pioneer Federico Faggin contends that consciousness is the ground of being, not a by-product of matter. By centering subjective experience and self-knowing, he envisions a science aligned with life’s interiority—one that honors awareness, responsibility, and our capacity to serve the unfolding of life itself.

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Ethics of AI

When AI Remembers the Divine

By Svetomir Karovski

Svetomir Karovski explores AI not as a threat but as a potential catalyst for humanity’s spiritual evolution. Drawing on mystical experiences in the Andes and rural life in Serbia, he frames AI as a mirror of human consciousness—capable of amplifying greed or guiding us toward love, coherence, and divinity.

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Seven Generations

Original Politics and the Future of Love

By Glenn Aparicio Parry

This essay recalls the roots of ecological politics in Indigenous traditions, contrasts them with Western thought, and links them to the modern environmental movement. Recalling ancestral wisdom and women’s knowledge, it envisions a revolution of love, wisdom, and compassion—recovering what was lost to guide humanity toward a more harmonious, life-serving future.

Deep Adaptation

The UN’s Next Role

By Jem Bendell

Jem Bendell reflects on the disillusionment of UN staff confronting ecological, economic, and political breakdown. Rather than propping up failing systems, he urges a shift toward “collapse-aware” integrity: naming the storm, fostering resilience, and reclaiming the UN’s spirit of service as truth-telling, solidarity, and courage in darkening times.

Common sense

A Simple Path for Science

By Dr. Filippo Dal Fiore

Filippo Dal Fiore critiques reductionist tendencies in social science that create ideologies, abstractions, and disconnection from lived reality. He calls for a return to simplicity through analogies, subjective experience, and universal common sense. Science, he argues, must serve life by rediscovering its foundations in clarity, purpose, and human wisdom.

Hospicing

Offering Deep Presence at the End of Life

By Sallamah Aliah

Through her training at Upaya and service as a hospital chaplain, the author learns that chaplaincy is not a profession but a way of life. In moments of death, fear, and vulnerability, she discovers the power of presence—standing with others in their fire and finding her own promise to live.

RELATEDNESS

Tragic Exiles and the Ache for Belonging

By Natureza Gabriel

Gabriel's essay explores alienation as a loss not only of home, but of the embodied, interbeing relationship with all of Life. Drawing from indigenous wisdom, language theory, mystical teachings, and early Christian texts, it calls for a return—not to dogma, but to the felt sense of unity and sacred relatedness that predates religion.