Pessimistic consensus One thing that I see continually around me is people’s general lack of a positive vision for our future. We have a general lack of consensus around where we are going as a species, other than pictures of gloom related to any number of doomsday, grim terminal futures you see all around us….
Presentation given for ZDAY2011 in Portland OR. How can the transition happen, what would a possible transition look like, and is the transition we are talking about even unique in Earth’s history? And what can we do today?
The stimulation of awareness is, in my belief, the single most fundamentally important aspect of ourselves we need to develop. Through awareness we ask questions, we learn, we develop our own thoughts, we become educated – wise even. The lack of awareness is the root from which all problems arise. War, environmental problems, disease, suffering,…
Hello, this is a documentary from 1992; a little dated, perhaps? Well maybe, this documentary covers papa bush’s invasion of Panama; and it does it in an extremely effective manner, one of the best documentaries of its type I have ever seen; and worthy of watching for sure – even if it does boil some…
For quite some time I have been interested in theories that discuss the balancing between right and left brain thinking, and the translation of ideas from one field to another. Ken Wilber’s book [my review] opened up a new domain of philosophical thinking. Through this interest I have heard a great deal mentioned recently about…