Introduction to The Web of Meaning
By Jeremy Lent, Resilience.org
As our civilization careens toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview has passed its expiration date: it’s based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings.
Awakening to Life
By Jeremy Lent, Kosmos Journal
Awakening to life in this century of turmoil is far from a painless experience. It takes courage, authenticity, and the humility to reach out to others when the enormity of the loss becomes too unbearable to hold in your own heart.
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
By Jeremy Lent, YES! magazine
In short, we need to change the basis of our global civilization. We must move from a civilization based on wealth accumulation to one that is life-affirming: an ecological civilization.
Reweaving ‘The Web of Meaning’
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Jeremy Lent, Medium.com
On December 15th I had one of the most enjoyable conversations of this year with de delightfully polymathic Jeremy Lent about his path towards becoming one of the most elegant voices of humanity’s search for new and at the same time very ancient meaning.
A Cornerstone of a Moral Economy
By Jeremy Lent, Great Transition Initiative
A full-fledged UBI—one that unconditionally provides every person with enough income to meet their basic needs—would fundamentally alter the paradigm of capitalism that has locked workers into the dominant system ever since its inception.
The Alchemy of Heartbreak and Hope: A Spiritual Practice for Our Time
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog
It’s in the cauldron of sharing our grief with our community, of gazing at it together and not looking away, that the heartbreak turns to hope.”
The five real conspiracies you need to know about
By Jeremy Lent, Patterns Of Meaning blog
While millions of people are spellbound by false conspiracy theories, the real conspiracies that are wrecking our world go about their business unheeded. Here are five genuine threats that everyone should know about—and take action on.
The Coronavirus as Crucible (Response to After the Pandemic: Which Future?)
By Jeremy Lent, Paul D. Raskin, Great Transition Initiative
The impact of coronavirus will be huge. But it is not yet the crisis that could push our global society into the phase change required for the Great Transition.