Occupy may be an
ethically motivated, bio-psycho-social response to a systemic process
that is being perceived as a threat to the collective organism.
Sacred Economics: Chapter 20, Right Livelihood and Sacred Investing (Part 21)
Etymologically speaking, to invest means to clothe, as in to take naked money and put it into new vestments, something
material, something real in the physical or social realm. Money is naked human
potential — creative energy that has not yet been "clothed" with material or
social constructions. Right investment is to
array money in sacred vestments.
Sacred Economics: Chapter 11, Currencies of the Commons (Pt. 12)
The metamorphosis of human economy that is underway in our time will go
more deeply than the Marxist revolution because the Story of the People
that it weaves won’t be just a new fiction of ownership, but a
recognition of its fictive, conventional nature.
The Trouble With Vaporware
Since the Fukushima disaster began, proponents of nuclear power
have tried to spin the situation with claims that go back to the Eisenhower administration — that nukes will be clean, safe, and cheap, if we just go with the new technology that's not yet off the drawing board. Computer geeks have a term for this kind of song and dance:
vaporware.
Jain Nuns in New Jersey: Mobile Ascetics, Mobilizing Jainism
The Indian diaspora is huge, in the US alone, there are estimated to be over two million Indian Americans. For the past three years, two Jain nuns from Ladnun, Rajasthan have been
traveling to and residing in Iselin, New Jersey to teach and live as
spiritual advisors within a diasporic Jain community.
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Jain Nuns in New Jersey: Mobile Ascetics, Mobilizing Jainism
The Indian diaspora is huge, in the US alone, there are estimated to be over 2 million Indian Americans. New Jersey has the most Indians in this country, and in Iselin, you feel like you are in an India.
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Jain Nuns in New Jersey: Mobile Ascetics, Mobilizing Jainism
The Indian diaspora is huge, in the US alone, there are estimated to be over 2 million Indian Americans. New Jersey has the most Indians in this country, and in Iselin, you feel like you are in an India.
Beyond Life Inc: Talking with Douglas Rushkoff
Media ecologist Douglas Rushkoff tells how the corporation has made us over into its own image, and how we can take it back. He also illuminates the Dark Ages, reveals why there's a God on our money, and explains what we're really buying into when we buy that mortgage.
What Now, America?
Is the Wall Street economic meltdown gearing us up for a food crisis? Or, will we find our way to a better world with values and nutrients as our arsenal?
