Changing Ourselves

I have not been able to be as specific as might be useful in elucidating skills and value offerings we might bring to the community as we collectively go through the cathartic change unfolding around us. But I do have a number of strategic impulses that have revealed themselves over the last few years that…

All My Political Relations

I forgive Bernie Sanders for running as a Democrat, but this Demo party is nearly toast. The Green Party is the future for all of us. This video offers a great message. But, what is Great? Great again? If all that has come before has lead to a short-term collapse of the experiment of life…

Our Crime Against Humanity

From the New York Times article of the same name. “The human species is the agent of a terrible injustice being perpetrated against other species, future generations, ecosystems and our fellow human beings. Examples include contaminated waterways, mass species extinction, massive fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions and unsustainable rates of deforestation, to name…

Ecoshamanism: Understanding Why Shamanism

“In this it serves as shock therapy for students who have grown up with the unexamined belief that modern science is the only true path to knowledge. They have been taught that the scientific method is of a different order from all other human systems of understanding. The claim is that science, and only science,…

10 Days of Christmas Awareness (Day 4, 5 & 6)

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 not. They are inextricably entangled…

10 Days of Christmas Awareness (Day 3)

They are nonlinear, and sometimes runaway or self-sustaining. 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…

10 Days of Christmas Awareness (Day 2)

They are rapid but not instant.   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.…

Thanksgiving’s Hidden Heart

“It was believed that by giving there would be enough for all—the exact opposite of the system we live in now, which is based on selling, not giving…. “…In stories told by the Dakota people, an evil person always keeps his or her heart in a secret place separate from the body. The hero must…