Category: Activism

The word ‘future’ itself can be seen not as a noun but as a verb. It’s the unfolding of what all of us are doing right now that creates the conditions for whatever happens next. ~ Jeremy Lent The Local Futures Podcast, Shifting Paradigms, is the perfect listen as we enter the New Year. Renowned …

“Spiritual activism is a practice that brings together the otherworldly and inner-focused work of spirituality and the outwardly-focused work of activism (which focuses on the conditions of the material or physical world).” Wikipedia This essay is inspired by the latest message from the citizen movement AVAAZ, certainly the most remarkable movement of its kind ever to have emerged. Avaaz has …

I believe that we are part of a movement that is greater and deeper and broader than we ourselves know, or can know. It flies under the radar of the media, by and large. It is non-violent. It is grassroots. It has no cluster bars, no armies and no helicopters. It has no central ideology. …

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze. – Carl Sagan The human collective has in the last several years transitioned into a new stage of its birth process. I will draw from Stanislav Grof’s concept of perinatal matrices, a four-stage description of the psychodynamics of birth. Stage 1 is Uterine …