A Different View: Relationships, Order & Process

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What’s an evolutionary view that values our felt sense of process? What is a view of the natural world that does not demonize humanity for arriving on the earth’s crust and yet feels the weight of urgency to radically awaken so we can respond to the cry of our times?

The ‘Elder Brother’ comes to Australia

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Often called ‘The Elder Brother’, the People of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta see modern cultures and technological civilization as ‘The Younger Brother’. I caught up with the ‘Elder Brothers’ by a Skype conversation with their facilitator as they were visiting Uluru, in Australia, at the invitation of traditional keeper, Uncle Bob Randall.

Mermaid Yogi Brittany Trubridge on Communing with Nature’s Elements

Brittany Trubridge is affectionately known as “The Mermaid Yogi” for her exquisite underwater yoga art photography. I caught up with Brittany to talk about her mission of bringing people closer to nature through yoga, her ocean conservation work, and the importance of circling home.

Canyon de Manhattan

We speak of geologic time as if it is an anomaly, as if human constructed time were more normal, more real. The opposite is true. The rhythms of the earth are real time, or the real timing with which we should concern ourselves with.

A Songdream Fractal

It was an early fall morning in the Pacific Northwest when a tiny rainforest frog presented me with a profound lesson.

Biospherics: What Nature Does for Us

John Allen’s focus on Biosphere 2 was different from the mainstream. Typically, biological and ecological research is devoted to understanding the individual parts of systems, or even ecosystems. Allen wanted to know how the whole thing worked.

A Sense of Homecoming

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The religious sensibility common to theism and atheism holds the promise of salvation from the realities of nature through rebirth in paradise or the triumph of science. But a growing number of people seek not salvation from nature, but a conscious and
delighted participation in it, a homecoming.

Sacred Law

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In April 2010, I proposed to the United Nations a law of Ecocide. My proposal has at its heart a fundamental intrinsic value the sacredness of all life. Currently, our world is driven by laws that put profit first. How do we shift to a new way of being that prioritises intrinsic values, that values something for its own sake?

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