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Silent no more: Louise Pentz | A SuperSoul Short Film

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After seeing countless stories in the media about the atrocities and injustices perpetrated against women and girls around the globe, commercial potter turned artist-activist, Louise Pentz, asked herself, is my silence contributing to the problem? The answer was yes, so she completely refocused her pottery work, allowing it to express her strong feelings and solidarity, thereby taking a stand and touching the hearts of other artists to take a stand too. "The artists have an important role in … Watch video

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A Guide to Gracefully Losing Faith in a Collapsing Dominant Culture

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"I recall a Buddhist parable involving a stick that appears from a distance to be a snake, causing fear to rise in the perceiver. As the perception shifts upon closer examination, the fear subsides and the relieved hiker continues down the path. Understanding and awareness have a lot to do with how we feel and how we act. As hosts to the dominant cultural mindset (our collective understanding of who we are in the universe), our minds play a critical part in both perpetuating our dominant way of … Continue reading

Living Through the Death of Capitalism | Joe Brewer

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"Humanity is in the crucible of change now. It is an all-hands-on-deck transition — away from life destroying economic practices based on wealth hoarding and extraction and toward life affirming practices of regeneration and renewal. "For it will be the beacons of light we carry that will show others the way forward. For my part, I am working with social movements to connect the dots of wealth extraction and training change makers in the art and science of intentional social change. I have seen … Continue reading

Saving Lives through Social Media | Jaz O’Hara | TEDxRoyalTunbridgeWells

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Social media changed Jaz's life, and the lives of thousands of people she works with. Not to be underestimated as a tool for procrastination, Jaz O'Hara demonstrates the power of Facebook and Instagram (and other channels), not just through her own crazy story, but through several inspiring examples of the refugees she works with in camps across Europe and the Middle East and how they have been impacted by this amazing resource we all have at our fingertips! In under a year, Jaz went from her … Watch video

The Lid is Off | Charles Eisenstein

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"It is getting harder to keep a secret these days. The collective shadow of our society, once safely relegated to the dark basement of the unmentionable, is now exposed to daylight, forcing us to face our contradictions. I’ll offer three examples: Donald Trump’s leaked recordings, Hillary Clinton’s emails and Wall Street speeches, and the endless procession of videos of police brutality. "It is perhaps necessary that Clinton and Trump are both such extreme expressions of the suppressed shadow … Continue reading

Adultum – A Critical Narrative at the End of Growth and a Name for the Coming Age

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Is human civilisation about to grow up and take on responsibility for its actions? "The Anglo-Saxon usage of the adjective “adult” relates to a grown-up person; in the German language “adult” is mainly used as a biological term for maturity. At the end of quantitative growth, the term in its neuterform “Adultum” could accentuate the emancipatory skills and knowledge of adulthood in social terms as a name for the coming age. "As a term rooted in the tradition of the Enlightenment it would, as a … Continue reading

How to Cultivate Happiness the Bhutanese Way

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"As economies crash, political and social tensions rise and our environment screams out for tender loving care in the face of global warming and great destruction, Bhutan stands alone as a model for slow, sustainable, values-based change that actually works. “Change doesn’t happen from the top down or the bottom up. It happens from the inside out,” Saamdu explains. “Social change is driven by human change, and as humans, we need to change. We need to embody happiness as a living practice.” "We … Continue reading

‘wetheuncivilised, A Life Story’ – a film about finding home

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Coming to the Universal Hall, Findhorn, Scotland 2 October 2016.... "Disillusioned by a cultural story of consumption and alienation, a newly married couple [Pete and Lily Sequoia] are called to action. Carrying with them their unborn child, they embark on a year-long journey around the UK, searching for the seeds of an alternative culture and with it hope for the future. "Without any prior filmmaking experience, they borrow the money from a friend to buy a second hand film camera, and set off … Watch video

One Earth, Two Social Fields | Otto Scharmer

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Otto Scharmer explains how global politics and world economic affairs today emerge from the interplay between two social fields: absencing (the cycle of destruction); and presencing (the cycle of co-creation). "Today it feels as if we—everyone alive right now—are living in a “plastic hour” of history, meaning that small differences today can have major impacts tomorrow. Both of the forces that shaped the past century—presencing and absencing—are intensifying their global presence now. "History … Continue reading

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