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…
Is it really climate justice that we ought to be pursuing; social, economic and environmental justice, as well as peace, or do these things emerge from a genuinely sustainable, mutually-beneficial human presence on the planet? Does not injustice flow from a fear perspective; a spiritual orientation representing the unintegrated, dominant perception of separateness all of…
“ “Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem Daily Practice: The war economy: its speed, greed and violence to people and the planet also strips us of our abilities to imagine and dream. Moving our attention and value to the Peace Economy…
“Life on Earth depends on energy from the sun. That heat warms the surface of the planet, and some of it goes back into the atmosphere. Certain gases, especially carbon dioxide, trap that heat, creating the greenhouse effect. There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity, most notably the burning of fossil fuels, has…
Talk from Daniel Pinchbeck at Breaking Convention: 3rd International Conference on Psychedelic Consciousness, University of Greenwich, 10-12th July, 2015. – 2015.breakingconvention.co.uk/ This talk was part of the Transformations with Psychedelics symposium. Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism and 2012:The Return of Quetzalcoatl. He is…
Thursday, February 19 at 6:30 PM at Food for Thought, Overseas Highway in Marathon. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Food-for-Thought/141347890209 and Saturday, February 21 at 1 PM at the Good Food Conspiracy, Overseas Highway, Big Pine Key. http://goodfoodconspiracy.com/
I’m intrigued by the question, “Are you on vacation?” Umm. From what? Upper most in my mind is the Bruce Cockburn song, Lovers in a Dangerous Time. To be a lover at this time seems to have its particular challenges. The word that comes to mind is ‘poignant’. It is a time of great poignancy.…
“In Peru, ayahuasca is not only legal, it is also cherished and protected as a cultural patrimony,” she says. “I can’t think of a higher honor that a country could bestow on a tradition of any sort.”
“Turning off your compulsion to buy massive quantities of unnecessary doodads and trinkets isn’t just about being a happier person and a better friend. It’s also about, very literally, not buying into an economic model that is hurting the planet, and egging on climate change.”
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