Our world desperately needs to come in from the lost islands of desiccated individualism and learn to stand again on the fecund earth where vibrant and vital interaction can happen between people. Our world is facing so many crises ecologically, economically, and spiritually. These cannot be overcome by isolated individuals. We need to come together. There is incredible power in a community of people who are together because they care, and who are motivated by the ideals of compassion and … Continue reading

In the forest, boots crunching, tree tops sweeping in wind. Silence is not silent. The season is revealed in the wet soil and yellowed leaves, but time is an abstraction. Transformations are now everywhere all at once. Intimate and global, mental and environmental, economic and political. There is rigor needed to pay careful attention to this. Yes, it requires effort to look beyond the crises into the conditions, and to do so in detail. Before that effort is brushed off as unreasonable there … Continue reading

As a person who's been an activist for my entire adult life, for five decades, first on the transformational work that needs to be done to end world hunger, I discovered through that window that the key intervention is the empowerment of women and girls. This became a throughline throughout the decades of work that followed, and continues to this day in my work to raise human consciousness through both the State of the World Forum and the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and more recently working … Continue reading

From the book Wild Honey, Tough Salt by Kim Stafford Thank you to Parker Palmer for sharing. Continue reading

In these times when anger Is turned into anxiety And someone has stolen The horizons and mountains, Our small emperors on parade Never expect our indifference To disturb their nakedness. They keep their heads down And their eyes gleam with reflection From aluminum economic ground, The media wraps everything In a cellophane of sound, And the ghost surface of the virtual Overlays the breathing earth. The industry of distraction Makes us forget That we live in a universe. We have become … Continue reading