global society

Is human ingenuity sufficient to meet the crisis of climate change and species extinction, or will only a radical change in human consciousness itself, beginning within the individual, be adequate?…

Few would argue that there is a political ‘failure of imagination’ in the Western world. Without putting imagination first (contemplative insight is primary), imagination, whether in art or politics, obviously…

Monday was Labor Day in America, not Memorial or Veteran’s Day, but on my bike ride this morning I saw flag after flag flying from pillar to post on single-family…

There is a great deal of confusion, even and perhaps especially among philosophers, about diversity and wholeness. In a world being torn apart by fragmentation and conflict between peoples and…

Having been at the epicenter of a 7.1 earthquake along California’s San Andreas fault, in which the apartment building rolled like a ship in high seas, I can attest to…

A major American newspaper recently featured an article entitled, “A New Dark Age Looms.” Its tortured premise was that drastic climate change would cause humankind to lose “our foundation of…

A friend correctly points out that resistance to the necessity of global governance takes two contradictory forms—the idea that “it will never happen,” and “the fear of Global Big Brother.”…

Short of becoming monks, sannyasis or forest dwellers on the Olympic Peninsula, we have to grapple with the world and what is happening to humankind. Too many people, spiritually inclined…