Part 1: What They Are Teaching Technologies are like “media,” they extend our senses beyond the limits of time, distance, scale, intelligence and life experience. What we’re experiencing today is not merely rapid innovation, but the emergence of technologies of transcendence, those that are not just changing the world. They’re teaching us something radical: that […]
How Our Purpose, Collaboration and Conscious Action can Help Heal a World in Metacrisis Crisis Precedes Transformation Socially, geopolitically and environmentally, humanity is in a state of metacrisis—a compounding of complex, interrelated challenges that seem unresolvable. Most troubling is that the mindset that created them—separation, materialism, domination—remains active. We can vote, protest and pray, but […]
Finding Trust, Meaning and Direction When Life’s River Turns into Rapids Train tracks at night—a metaphor for the lighted way At times, the placid stream of life suddenly turns into rapids. Then the rapids become a torrent. Linda and I, now in our mid-80s, have recently experienced how quickly this can happen. Within just a […]
“The Force” and “The Way” — Avatars, Movies, and the Future of Human Flourishing I hadn’t thought much about the word “avatar” until James Cameron’s movie came out. After enjoying it immensely, I realized that he’d used technology to analogously portray the spirit-to-matter process whereby Divine Spirit vibrationally “individuates” a life force or soul, which […]
A Practice of Compassion, Presence and Shared Humanity After placing an order at a fast food restaurant takeout menu, Linda pulled up to the window. I was in the passenger seat. She handed over the money and moments later, when the bag of food was delivered she noticed a sandwich was missing. She waved to […]
Our collective consciousness created it Left to right: Sven?, Fran Macy, Donald Keys (Moderator), Gehard Elston, Bill Porter In June 1983, under the auspices of the World Good News Network (WGNN), I led a team to Toronto, Canada to video document a week-long event entitled, “The Congress of the Planetary Initiative for the World We […]
Qualities of Love and Consciousness Are Shaping Our Evolutionary Future My common practice for this blog is to select a photograph that will prompt a contemplation. In this instance, due to a period of focused readings in theology and philosophy relative to the future of humanity, there came a moment when I had the distinct […]
Why the “Domination” Paradigm Fails and the “Communion” Paradigm Endures Through decades of studying the rise and fall of the ancient Maya civilization of Central America, one of my areas of interest has been the formation and decline of “kingship,” how power was gained and wielded and how it failed. Universally, and from a whole-systems […]
What can we do in the face of unsettling change, eroding confidence and civility? The world has tilted in the direction of uncertainty. Social, economic and cultural norms are shifting and many are being dismantled.[1] Droughts, tornados, fires and flooding are becoming more frequent and severe. Technologies are evolving faster than the wisdom to manage […]
It can manifest as an open hand or a clenched fist Nationalism is a point of view that puts the identity, interests and values of a nation ahead of other nations, regarding itself as independent and self-sufficient, the ultimate authority on what’s best for its citizens. Grounded in national pride, it has brought people together […]
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