Experiencing the Wrath of Ida and the Bliss of Gaia

By Bart Everson, Gaianism

I am Gaia. So are you. It’s just a matter of remembering. And strangely enough it felt like remembering was a little easier during the power outage.

On the Existence of A Man

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

Philosophers and mystics throughout time have been showing us that everything is connected, that humans are part of that everything, that unity is fundamental — and sacred.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 44 Christabel Rose Reed

By Vicki Robin, Christabel Rose Reed, Resilience.org

Christabel Rose Reed is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and activist. She is on a mission to link inner transformation with social change and empower people to embark on the entwined journey of inner and outer healing. Christabel addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 30 Starhawk

By Vicki Robin, Starhawk, Resilience.org

Starhawk is an author, activist, permaculture designer and teacher, founder of Earth Activist Training, and a prominent voice in modern earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?

The Rescue of the Spirit and of Nature

By Victor M. Toledo, Resilience.org

The two central tasks of every conscious individual are the rescue of spirituality and (re)connecting with respect for nature. Three sectors are playing a strategic role in this: environmentalists, women, and indigenous peoples.

What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 19 Alnoor Ladha

By Vicki Robin, Alnoor Ladha, Resilience.org

Alnoor brings spirituality and big picture thinking to today’s conversation on What Could Possibly Go Right?

Money, Gods, and Taboos: Re-sacralizing the Commons

By Ugo Bardi, MAHB

I mulled over the question for a while and I came to the conclusion that, yes, Erik Assadourian and the others are on to something: it may be time for religion to return in some form. And if religion returns, it may well be in the form of some kind of cult of the Goddess Gaia. But let me try to explain.

The Emergence of Earth Jurisprudence in Africa

By Carlotta Byrne, Gaia Foundation

Across Africa, a network of Earth Jurisprudence Practitioners is accompanying traditional and indigenous communities in the revival and enhancement of their Earth-centred customary governance systems.

Schumacher – a 21st Century Druid College?

By Andy Letcher, Schumacher College

But a college that finds spiritual expression in service to the others with whom we live (human or other-than-human) and to the land beneath our feet, that scrutinises and decolonises itself without fragility, that privileges listening before speaking, and that acts mindfully and soulfully in the world, would be a college that meets the needs of the time.

#StayAtHome and #Liberate

By Don Hall, Transition US

What matters is that we commit ourselves to a practice that helps us to periodically reflect on who we are at our core, discipline our minds to be steady and clear, and grow in our capacity to be of greater service to others over time.

Uncertainty, Crisis, Collapse: The (Necessary) Bardo into a New Life

By Adrián Villasenor-Galarza, Esperanza Project

As in every transition, in this time we are witnessing structures collapse, both mental and institutional, and the subsequent state of crisis and negotiation that this entails. Yet the bardo brings with it a valuable promise: the ability to re-create the relationship we have with ourselves and with the world.

Business Beyond Shared Value

By Eduardo Sasso, Resilience.org

After more than two centuries of applauding industrialization and the growthism that has gone with it, it’s no news that we’ve currently surpassed human and planetary boundaries. And these, in turn, are calling into question the well-established mind-maps that have enabled us to get where we are at today. Allegedly designed to overcome old harms, one of such mind-maps is found in the now-famous Creating Shared Value (CSV) paradigm and its different variants.