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IN THE CULTURE OF HUNGRY GHOSTS
By Dylan Charles Source: Waking Times “No society can understand itself without looking at its shadow side.” ― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Something wicked bubbles just beneath the surface of the collective conscience. Our society … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Consumerism, culture, Gabor Maté, Hungry Ghost, Karma, nature, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, spirituality
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The end of childhood play
By Brian Kaller Source: resilience Recorded history is the history of adults–generals, statesmen, explorers and scientists–but all of those adults began their path as children. And running beneath this official history is the unofficial history of childhood games and rituals, … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, culture, education, Health, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Technocracy
Tagged Childhood, Consciousness, culture, Education, games, history, nature, Philosophy, play, psychology, society, Sociology, Technocracy, technology, Tradition
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WE ARE ALL BEING COOKED IN THE SOUP TOGETHER
By Paul Levy Source: Waking Times One of the recurring thought-forms that I hear repeated everywhere during these apocalyptic times is, “We are all in this together.” It is ironic that “we are all in this together,” and yet, our … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged Apocalypse, Carl Jung, Consciousness, Covid-19, culture, Death, nature, Nicolas Berdyaev, Pandemic, Philosophy, psychology, Rumi, society, Sociology, spirituality, Technocracy, Thomas Merton
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Nature Is Not a Machine—We Treat It So at Our Peril
By Jeremy Lent Source: resilience From genetic engineering to geoengineering, we treat nature as though it’s a machine. This view of nature is deeply embedded in Western thought, but it’s a fundamental misconception with potentially disastrous consequences. Climate change, avers … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy
Tagged Biology, Climate Change, Consciousness, culture, DNA, Ecology, environment, Genetic Engineering, geoengineering, Life, mechanistic worldview, nature, Philosophy, science, Scientific Revolution, Self-Organization, society, Technocracy
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RETURN OF THE WARRIOR
By Elva Thompson Source: Waking Times “It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives.Nourish it thenThat it may leafAnd bloomAnd fill with singing birds! Hear me, that the people may once againFind the good roadAnd … Continue reading
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Tagged Consciousness, Dystopia, nature, Philosophy, ritual, Shamanism, spirituality
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Ireland: Thoughts on Wildness and Domestication
By Renzo Connors Source: Anarchists Worldwide “If I decide to break the chains of domestication, I can only do so because I feel the chains and suffer the effects of domestication on my own skin.” – Alfredo Bonanno I While out … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Environment, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technocracy, Technology
Tagged Anarchism, Authoritarianism, civilization, culture, domestication, environment, Human Extinction, industrial society, nature, Philosophy, society, spirituality, Technocracy, Tenalach, wildness
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Epistemological divide: How we live in two different worlds of understanding
By Kurt Cobb Source: Resilience Epistemology is the study of how we know things. All of us cycle between two main ways of knowing in our modern culture: 1) the rational, reductionist way and 2) the holistic, relational, intuitive way. … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, Consciousness, culture, Epistemology, global superorganism, harmony, holism, Mind, nature, ontology, Perception, Philosophy, psychology, Reality, reductionism, society, Sociology, Truth
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A New Aesthetic
By Damaris Zehner Source: Resilience There are all these good ideas – intensive agriculture, organic farming, permaculture, the local food movement. But why is most food still not grown this way, if it really is better? Why don’t farmers switch … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Labor, Philosophy, society, Sociology, Technology
Tagged Big Ag, Economics, environment, Farming, Food, Health, Herbicides, Industrial Agriculture, Monocrops, nature, Permaculture, Pesticides, Philosophy, Profit, Round-Up, technology
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