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 […]
How Love is Learned, Modeled and Shared From Early Childhood on Kinds Of Love Love is a family of capacities. Some forms occur through biology, others through relationship and still others through deliberate moral and spiritual cultivation. As a felt experience, many types have been identified. Eros is romantic or erotic; Philia is friendship and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Those in Alignment with Self (Soul) Let’s begin at the beginning. Oh, actually we can’t—the soul is immortal, so there was/is no beginning. Okay, so I’ll fast-forward, ignore previous incarnations and just focus on this one. There too, the word “beginning” needs to be qualified, because decision-making—if it’s to be “authentic”—begins prior to assuming a […]
Evidence of cosmic order All evolution is a dance of wholes that separate themselves into parts and parts that join into mutually consistent new wholes. We can see it as a repeating, sequentially spiraling pattern: unity to individuation to competition to conflict to negotiation to resolution to cooperation to new levels of unity and so […]
Attending to light fosters deep perception and appreciation I was nineteen and majoring in photography at Rochester Institute of Technology when I made a commitment to the regular practice of black & white photography as a medium of personal growth. Prompted by insights gained from some images I’d made, I sat alone in my car […]
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 […]
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