Various prophecies predict the collapse of the world financial system in the foreseeable future. How would such a collapse come about? I’m no economist, and only moderately versed in financial matters, but here is a possible future scenario that I see. As we all know, the climate is changing, driven by increasing CO2 emissions and a steadily rising average global … Continue reading →
In my travels through the more esoteric spiritual writings, I have come across two authors who delineate various levels of human consciousness. Both describe a hierarchy of ever-expanding awareness from the most basic animal level to the most enlightened. Ultimately of course, there are no hierarchies. All states of consciousness simply are what they are, and all humans simply inhabit … Continue reading →
I’m going to start this blog with a provocative statement. The climate crisis has not been created by the burning of fossils fuels, but by the level of consciousness that continues to burn them. So what is this ‘level of consciousness’ that I am talking about? From antiquity until today, the understanding of most spiritual traditions has been that there … Continue reading →
Forty years ago, the basics of atmospheric CO2, global warming and climate change were pretty much settled, even if the details were still to be refined. Since then, thousands of suggestions, ideas, plans, research papers and petitions have been created presenting methods for addressing the eventual climate chaos. These smart, reasonable and scientifically-verified ideas have been praised, circulated, approved, accepted … Continue reading →
How did we get here? How have we orchestrated our own possible extinction on a climate-wrecked planet? Why have we not acted on decades of sober advice about where we were heading? And why, now that we’re on the brink of climate collapse and the collapse of life on earth, are we not taking every conceivable step to ward off … Continue reading →
What we are as human beings can be viewed from many different perspectives. Each perspective sees our entirety through a different lens, in the process creating its own particular differentiations and insights. I have recently been pondering the implications of a system that divides us into just two parts, the body and the soul (as distinct from the more traditional … Continue reading →