Culture and Change

Burning Man | What We’ve Learned

Journal Article

"We don’t need a blueprint, we don’t want a master plan, we just need to practice the skills and create the kind of spaces we want to live in, and share them."

Published in Volume 19 Issue 3 By Caveat Magister and Photography, Scott London

The Sun of Darkness

Journal Article

The center and the periphery are changing places. This is part of a larger epochal shift that we can best understand through a mythological and cosmological lens.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 3 By Daniel Pinchbeck

The Pros and Cons Program in Canada mentors inmates in a music program that focuses on rehabilitation and restorative justice. The program was founded by Hugh Christopher Brown. He and the inmates write, arrange and record songs entirely within the confines of the prison walls.

Published in Volume 19 Issue 4 By Hugh Christopher Brown

greenplanet-blueplanet | Sacred Economy and Caring

Journal Article

Julian Guderley is on a quest to identify and interview the top 500 key players in the Regenerative Movement.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 1 By Julian Guderley

Mystical Anarchism, a Spiritual Biography

Journal Article

Alnoor | When people ask me, "what’s the most important thing I can do," I often say to people, especially in the spiritual community: to understand how neoliberalism works. We must understand how capitalism works because it is the very oxygen in which we are breathing. It has intermediated every aspect of our lives.

Published in Volume 20 Issue 1 By Alnoor Ladha and Michael Lerner

Reframing Global Citizenship

Journal Article

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.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 1 By Jeremy Lent

Building Unified Social Movements

Journal Article

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?

Published in Volume 24 Issue 1 By Dorothy Guerrero

How Well Do ‘Elites’ Understand the Metacrisis?

Journal Article

I think the carbon pulse has skewed our biological template towards being individualistic and competitive and that is not our destiny or our genome. I think a lot of the people who are CEOs and national politicians do have a preponderance of narcissism...it's the way that our culture has trained our human behavior. I'm most interested in the levers and how we might be able to shift them or at least shift them in certain pockets around the world.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 1 By Nate Hagens

Left-Brain Bias is Harming Our Planet

Journal Article

The entire enterprise of reducing a rainforest or mangroves to so many tonnes of carbon is left brain bias par excellence. The complex web of symbiotic human and non-human life co-evolving from moment to moment in an unbroken chain which goes back hundreds of millions of years is reduced to a single metric - CO2. All so that companies can call themselves “carbon neutral” - another typically left-brain concept.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 1 By Robert Cobbold

Transcending Inherited Narratives

Journal Article

By transcending inherited social categories like religious/secular, right/left, East/West, North/South, capitalist/socialist, we see that a common goal of the consolidated regressive agenda is to restore authoritarian, top-down, punitive, in-group versus out-group systems in both the family and the state or tribe.

Published in Volume 24 Issue 1 By Riane Eisler