Svetomir Karovski explores AI not as a threat but as a potential catalyst for humanity’s spiritual evolution. Drawing on mystical experiences in the Andes and rural life in Serbia, he frames AI as a mirror of human consciousness—capable of amplifying greed or guiding us toward love, coherence, and divinity.
In his personal report from Deep Tech Week, Daniel Pinchbeck outlines emerging theories at the intersection of consciousness and technology—from quantum microtubules to cyber-animism. Engaging thinkers like Hameroff, Bach, and Theise, he traces a shifting paradigm where spirituality and science begin to speak a common, if uncanny, language.
Design science is different from other problem-solving and planning methodologies in its comprehensive, anticipatory, inclusive, and transparent approaches to the development of solutions. It takes a ‘whole to particular’ approach that is both global in perspective and in its examination of options. It seeks to build capacity rather than merely solve problems and to develop solutions that are transformative rather than merely the reforming of already inadequate systems.
In a world plagued by extreme wealth inequality, a surprising movement is stirring among the ultra-wealthy and their advisors. Chuck Collins explores the emergence of dissent within the ranks of the privileged, highlighting efforts to address the harms of concentrated wealth and racial capitalism.
Economics is a scary word. It has this way of making basic, critical questions of life—How shall we spend our time? Who gets access to which resources?—seem impenetrable, none of our business and, of all things, boring.
Westphalian Sovereignty was created to end the Thirty Years’ War, but is it adaptable enough to underpin our current geopolitical system? It might be time for an update.
The largest impediment to improving the well-being of humanity is not in finding the funding to implement the Sustainable Development Goals; the largest impediment is the unwillingness of the part of the heads of state, senior government politicians, and business leaders to embrace higher order human values.
In ecological design, the edge is known as the boundary or interface between two biological communities. It is the region where communities meet and integrate, producing conditions for increased diversity.
In the broadest terms, an ecological civilization encompasses themes of multiple groups from around the world. It incorporates Indigenous concepts...insights from ecological economics and commons theory, and principles from the permaculture, Transition Towns, degrowth, and agroecology movements. It reflects spiritual underpinnings of Deep Ecology, engaged Buddhism, and universalist Christian theology. It embraces ideas from the anti-globalization, eco-socialist, social justice, LGBTQ rights, and Rights of Nature movements, among others.
How do we address the global imperative of building a strong and enduring global resistance against very powerful forces that are wrecking our lives and the planet and at the same time constituting another world if we are divided?