10 Days of Christmas Awareness (Day 1)

They are progressive, not probabilistic. The Ten Days of Christmas Awareness, a collaboration by Deep Green Resistance (the book, not the group), and me; a primer on the integral, intersectional nature of existence with particular emphasis on this time, now. “The media report on these crises as though they are all separate issues. They are…

The Little that’s Left

War and its fiendish, capitalistic bedfellows is a scourge on humanity and the planet. If you have been inculcated with fear and claim to just want to protect Americans, realize it doesn’t work because it is destroying the living planet. We need genuine progressive thought and action because conventional thought is leading us down the…

The New Paradigm; A Review

Tom Lescher provides a super review of the values, intentions and characteristics that, it can be said, are fundamental to the emerging paradigm. While our collective ego lives in the inertia of past experience and its symbols that surround us, new possibilities continue to unfold and gain disruptive power. We can know this process through…

Essential Reading: Relationships and The Great Turning

Article by Carolyn Baker: “During the past five years I have provided life coaching for a host of men and women around the world who have been deeply troubled by disparate perspectives between themselves and their spouses or partners regarding the future. Earlier in my life as a psychotherapist in private practice for seventeen years,…

Near-Term Extinction

Guy McPherson synthesizes scientific data about climate chaos and the results are not anything anyone wants to hear. Yet we must, say McPherson and I. The inescapable truth of McPherson’s story about the multiple feedback loops that have already been set in motion, and their proclivity to threaten the viability of the planet to support…

The Shamanic View of Mental Illness

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”  Jiddu Krishnamurti  “In the shamanic view, mental illness signals “the birth of a healer,” explains Malidoma Patrice Somé. Thus, mental disorders are spiritual emergencies, spiritual crises, and need to be regarded as such to aid the healer in being born.…