Feb 15, 2020 | Articles, Corruption, Tyranny, Violence
“Trump is using military-style tactics because he has a political beef with cities whose policies he doesn’t like.”
Feb 11, 2020 | Articles, civil liberties, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, community, Racism, Religious Fascism, Society In Decline, Tyranny
What Happens When (Enough of) a Democracy Doesn’t Want to Be One Anymore — and Never Really Did?
Jan 6, 2020 | Articles, Culture, Empire, Geo-Political, Society In Decline, Violence
War is an inflammation, an outbreak in the world’s body politic reflecting a deeper systemic disease in the underlying psyche of humanity. In collective events such as wars, we are seeing through a looking glass into the world-soul of humanity as it is being played out—for all who have eyes to see—on the global stage. War is an irrational phenomenon that can’t be stopped or controlled with rational arguments, for its source is the shared unconscious of humanity, which is to say that the roots of war are to be found deep within the unconscious psyche of humanity.
Dec 31, 2019 | Articles, Climate Change/Environment, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Culture, Ecopsychology, Emotional/Spiritual, Extinction, Gaia, Grief, Society In Decline
And here we are, wondrous beings, with unique gifts and abilities. We are capable of love and deep compassion, an appreciation of beauty, the creation of great art, music, and poetry. We are aware of our history, of how we came to be here. We have studied the world around us, and been awed by what we have discovered. We can imagine the future and choose how we respond. We find meaning in our lives, a sense of justice, and an inner wisdom. There is much to celebrate about us. The question is: Can we celebrate all that we are, while accepting that our species is here but for a brief flash of cosmic time?
Dec 26, 2019 | Articles, Climate Change/Environment, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Ecopsychology, Extinction, Gaia
And that is what it comes down to now for all of us collectively and for each one of us individually. The great struggle for Gaia’s life. And we humans, as is our nature, will only fight and make sacrifices for the ones we love. That is the way we are wired. All the humans in the world who love life, who love nature, in touch with their own human nature and its divine, umbilical connection to the natural world, are in varied stages of awakening with the searing awareness of Gaia’s trauma
Dec 17, 2019 | Articles, Climate Change/Environment, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Ecopsychology, Emotional/Spiritual, Extinction
There is no preventing the inevitable, but the delay is precious. It is all we have.
Dec 16, 2019 | Articles, civil liberties, Corruption, Empire, Tyranny
The real issue: Are we a nation of laws or men? Do we have checks and balances on power or do we side with Trump’s repeated assertions that as president he is unbound from any limits on his conduct?
Dec 5, 2019 | Articles, civil liberties, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Corruption, Empire, Racism, Religious Fascism, Society In Decline, Tyranny
There’s a simple fact that I don’t think Americans are reckoning with. That Americans are maybe even capable of reckoning with. It’s this. They’re living in what’s becoming a fascist society. And that fact raises the simple question: how do you live in a fascist society?
Dec 3, 2019 | Articles, civil liberties, Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Geo-Political, Resistance, Society In Decline, Tyranny
This is the end of the democracy.
Nov 28, 2019 | Articles, Emotional/Spiritual, Resilience
There in Enough, all of the hot, crackling noise within my head ceases; the constant comparisons that tell me that I am not measuring up, the never-ending criticisms that forever state their disapproval, the taunting whispers reminding me of both what I have failed to grasp and what I am most surely bound to lose