Self transformation
When the Cause is Everything
The government and people of El Salvador are in an impossible situation not of their own making. Therefore, to argue, as I see right and left doing, about whether this is a good policy is a diversion from the real originating issues.
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What is the Next Story?
We are sensing a metamorphosis of these basic myths that create the world – a transition from an old to a new story. Many are well familiar with this idea, but I’d like to clarify exactly what I think these old and new stories may be.
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A Lost Small Town: Running Errands in the Wake of Emotional Violence, USA
An emotional massacre has taken place in these little towns. And now we are expected to act as if — this never happened at all.
Read More Cultivate A Habit Of Small Acts Of Sedition
Written by Caitlin Johnstone It is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes...
Read More The Good World
Charles offers a contemplation on generosity, goodness and gratitude.
Read More The Tipping Point (by Infinite Waters)
As the powers that be exert more and more effort to impose fear, social division, and soul-crushing narratives, Ralph Smart invites us to consider the ways our spirits can resist this oppression and turn to love instead. By keeping love steadfastly in the driver’s seat, we find a tipping point into a much more sustainable world drawing steadily nearer.
Read More A Gathering of the Tribe (a short film by Charles Eisenstein)
It is time for us to come together. To gather, to rise, to love, to LIVE! You are not alone. I promise you, you are not alone.
Read More The Journey of Soul Initiation: An Interview with Bill Plotkin
Bill Plotkin, author of Soulcraft and The Journey of Soul Initiation, provides guidance for the descent to soul – the dissolution of current identity; the encounter with the mythopoetic mysteries of soul; and the metamorphosis of the ego into a cocreator of life-enhancing culture.
Read More Radical Compassion: Our Evolutionary Imperative
We find ourselves accelerating towards the precipice of extinction. How did we get here? And is there any way we can avoid hurtling into the abyss? The concept of “Radical Compassion” offers us an intriguing lens through which to find some answers to these questions.
Read More Foundational Attachment – The Key to Humanity’s Survival?
In this brief presentation, Dr Paris Williams discusses the concept of “Foundational Attachment” – a deep sense of belonging to and connection with the Earth and Cosmos – and how this concept can help us understand how we’ve arrived at this precipice of our own extinction; and how it may guide us back into harmony with the Gaian system.
Read More How Consumerism Destroys Our Minds (George Monbiot)
George Monbiot clearly illustrates how the deep-seated rot of consumerism has invaded and seriously harmed nearly every domain of life – from our own minds to society at large, to our fellow Earthlings and ultimately the entire biosphere. A must watch!
Read More 10 Environmental Books We’re Reading This Spring (The Revelator)
From climate change to wildlife trafficking, these new books tackle the toughest problems of the day, along with vital solutions.
Read More Can Madness Save the World? (Excerpt from “The ReKindling”)
Dr Paris Williams attempts to answer the question, “Can Madness Save the World?” in this excerpt from the longer “ReKindling” webinar.
Read More Can You Trust the Media? | Manufacturing Consent Explained
“Second Thought” takes a look at whose interests the corporate media serves, and evaluate whether we should trust mainstream news.
Read More Finding Meaning Under A Meaningless System
How many of people’s mental health diagnoses are really just them struggling to function in a capitalist system that is amoral, destructive, overwhelming, overbearing, unsatisfying, and bereft of meaning?
Read More From Breaking Down to Breaking Through (in just 8 minutes)
What do all living beings and living systems share? They have the capacity to turn “breaking down” into “breaking through.”
Read More The Universe Is Just Trying To See Itself
We each have an eye deep inside us, and it is all the same eye, and it is the universe’s eye.
Read More Change the World – Right Here, Right Now
Right here, and right now, the insanity of the human condition is playing out on the Earth. The cause? Humankind’s total breakdown in connection with each other and our natural world.
Read More Joanna Macy: Post-doom with Michael Dowd and Barbara Cecil
Joanna Macy, Deep Ecologist and founder of “The Work that Reconnects,” shares her wisdom for how to live a fulfilling life in these uncertain times.
Read More Society Is Made Of Narrative. Realizing This Is Awakening From The Matrix
In the movie The Matrix, humans are imprisoned in a virtual world by a powerful artificial intelligence system in a dystopian future. Life in our current society is very much the same. The difference is that instead of AI, it’s psychopathic oligarchs who are keeping us asleep in the Matrix. And instead of code, it’s narrative.
Read More Othering & Belonging: An Interview with john a. powell
john a. powell is one of the foremost public intellectuals in the areas of civil rights, racism, ethnicity, housing and poverty.
Read More EarthBeat Podcast w/ Paris Williams: Transforming Uncertainty into Action
Issac Oron and Sina Saffari from the Earth Beat Community in New Zealand engage in dialogue with Dr Paris Williams, psychologist and integral thinker, exploring a number of themes related to personal, collective and global wellbeing,
Read More Navigating Global Crisis: Developing Personal and Collective Resilience [A Recorded Webinar]
The current COVID-19 crisis has given us a strong taste of a globally shared crisis, and yet this is likely to be just the first of a series of global crises that we personally and collectively must imminently face. Join Dr Paris Williams in this free experiential/multi-media workshop aimed at fostering personal and collective awareness and resilience.
Read More Fractal Agent Smiths
The struggle of humankind is a struggle to become more conscious. Like a fractal, you see this same struggle to expand consciousness happening on every level of humanity no matter how far out or how far in you zoom the camera. But within every possible recursion of the fractal, you’ve got forces opposing that expansion of consciousness.
Read More The Taste of Wild Water
Author Stephen Buhner shares a personal experience of intimacy with the natural world and the transmission of this connection through the generations.
Read More The Human Metamorphosis: Paris Williams
This week we have a discussion with Dr Paris Williams. We discuss the transition that took Paris from world champion hang gliding athlete, to the depths of an intense personal inner transformation and awakening that led him on a journey of exploration of the human condition.
Read More 16 Essential Books About Environmental Justice, Racism and Activism [The Revelator]
These books provide insight into the problems that plague people and the planet, while also offering solutions for a more just future.
Read More Grieving My Way Into Loving the Planet
Being fully present to what is happening in the world is a radical act that can transform grief into action.
Read More Contact with the Sacred
Published by KarmaTube With spectacular visual images, this film reminds us of the necessity of...
Read More Life May Itself Be A Koan
The koan is a dilemma, a mystery which the rational mind cannot solve. The key to the resolution of a koan is a shift in the being of the student which allows for a new understanding of the question itself.
Read More Change Direction Post COVID-19
Our entire system needs to change coming out the other side of this “great pause”. Change will need to be driven from within, and external public policy. Pain and time to reflect can create opportunity to change.
Read More Hilarious Kim Jong Un Jokes, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
Blogger Caitlin Johnstone drops a series of humorous/painful truth bombs from her recent musings on U.S. Empire and more…
Read More Pandemic as Practice: With Joanna Macy & Jonathan Gustin
Working together, we can awaken the human soul to meet this pandemic. Working together, we can use our “dark-adjusted eyes” to see the coronavirus crisis as a spiritual call from Soul.
Read More 14 Inspiring New Environmental Books to Read During the Pandemic
New books by Carl Safina and other experts offer lessons for making this a better planet — for both humans and wildlife — even while we’re stuck at home.
Read More Finding Courage in Troubled Times
If you’re worried, it’s understandable. There’s panic in the air and anxiety in our bones. And fear is a healthy response to danger.
Read More Every Act a Ceremony
Can a reunion of the ceremonial with the pragmatic offer us a profoundly different way of seeing the world, and means to live in harmony with each other, other living beings, and the Earth?
Read More Ode to the Monarch Butterfly
Can humankind take inspiration from the Monarch butterfly?
Read More 16 Teachings from COVID-19
Corona holds a mirror that reflects our relationship with ourselves, with the Earth, with each other and with the broader systems we live in.
Read More Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry Tempest Williams weaves together in the face of today’s broken world.
Read More Climate Grief: How We Mourn a Changing Planet
The enormous transformations to our planet from climate change can have powerful effects on our emotions, making us grieve for what is lost.
Read More Living Gratefully in the Time of Coronavirus
“As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have,
the more the good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.”
Book Review – “The Enlightened Society” by John L. Hill
John Lawrence Hill is an author and law professor who is very concerned about international human rights. This book is a manifest on how humankind can save ourselves while in turn saving the planet. He has since written other books that have a similar theme – The Case for Vegetarianism: Philosophy for a Small Planet (1996), and The Political Centrist (2009).
Read More Humanity’s Phase Shift: Interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger
This conversation with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom looks at the growing civilisation-level crisis that we are beginning to see around us, and looks at what a genuine ‘phase shift’ for human progress might look like.
Read More This Song Was Made to Heal You
“Sustainable Human” knocks another one out of the park. Watch and be prepared to be deeply touched… and don’t forget to turn up the sound!
Read More What It Truly Means to be a Vegan
Many people have the wrong impression when it comes to what it means to be a vegan. Under this definition, do you consider yourself to be a vegan?
Read More How To Be A Mentally Sovereign Human
Written by Caitlin Johnstone We all showed up naked, slimy and clueless in a world of inexplicable...
Read More January’s New Environmental Books (The Revelator)
The Revelator’s list of new environmental books for January 2020.
Read More Bearing the Burden of Climate Change and Extinction
How do we live with the pain of knowing what we’ve lost and what’s coming?
Read More Why Everything is Fu**ed
We all slid out of the womb an itty bitty helpless information sponge into a world full of mentally ill giants who couldn’t wait to fill our tiny skulls with all of their inner demons. And now everything, understandably, is fucked.
Read More On Courage
What does it mean to be courageous? This short video provides an eloquent answer through powerful images that encourage further consideration of the question.
Read More Top 21 Heartwarming Movies for Animal Lovers
The holiday season is the perfect time to cozy up with these top 21 movies for animal lovers. From animated classics like Bambi to new favorites like Frozen 2, these are our top picks for heartwarming movies that the whole family can enjoy.
Read More On Being Alone
On a solo canoe trip down the Green River, paddling through the Canyonlands of southeast Utah, Craig Childs reflects on what it means to be alone in the wild.
Read More A Physicist’s Message for Humanity
In this thoughtful video, physicist Peter Russell pays tribute to kindness, suggesting that the world would be a drastically different place if we all showed one another more consideration
Read More Peter Singer on the Lives You Can Save
In Moral Philosopher Peter Singer’s hands, the questions that motivate a moral life are startlingly simple. But if you take them seriously, living morally can be both very rewarding and very challenging.
Read More Paying It Forward: Interview With Nipun Mehta
For more than 20 years, Nipun Mehta and his parents have been opening his doors to friends and strangers every Wednesday evening, creating a space for people to sit in circle together, meditate, share thoughts, and enjoy a meal. The invitation is to “wake up to wisdom in stillness and community,” a simple gesture of service and connection that now takes place in people’s living rooms across the globe.
Read More Falling in Love with the Earth: An Invitation to Healing and Connection
Feeling inextricably connected yet small in relationship with the natural world can lead us swiftly to a sense of the sacred.
Read More November’s Best Environmental Books (Listed by The Revelator)
This month’s new books dig deep into the need for diverse environmentalists, climate adaptation, wildlife coexistence and the Green New Deal.
Read More Can the Social Order Be Transformed through Personal Practice? The Case of Nonviolent Communication (NVC)
NVC can contribute to our collective ability to face and transform social conditions and systems, including, in particular, capitalism. Despite this potential, in actual practice, there is the risk that NVC, like other forms of psychotherapy and personal growth, can risk acting as a narcotic, making people happier to live in dysfunctional social systems.
Read More This Is How to Go Vegan When You Have a Tight Budget
This is a useful how-to guide for people who want to incorporate affordable, delicious plant-based food into their diet.
Read More There is Infinite Hope, But Not For Us: Interview with Barbara Cecil & Dahr Jamail
In this episode of Transitions, Barbara Cecil and Dahr Jamail, co-authors of the ‘How Then Shall We Live?’ series published at Truthout, are interviewed about what they feel it means to openly and honestly face the unprecedented global ecological collapse presently taking place.
Read More “Rethinking Madness” Book Review – A Little Madness is Required to Change the World
Is it possible that the dilemmas and insights that those deemed “mad” grapple with are the very same ones that we all must grapple with in order to change our systems and save our world?
Read More The Complicated Reasons People Eat Meat
Why do people eat meat? The answer about our beliefs, habits, and ethics is more complicated than you might think.
Read More At 45, I’m Healthier and Happier Than I Was in My 20s
Start by adding a variety of whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and legumes to your diet. Then try ditching meat, dairy, and junk food. You will never know how good it feels until you feel it for yourself. I’m never going back; I’m only moving forward.
Read More Wild Mind: Reclaiming Our Original Wholeness
It’s time to take another look at ourselves — to re-enliven our sense of what it is to be human, to breathe new life into ancient intuitions of who we are, and to learn again to celebrate, as we once did, our instinctive affinity with the Earth community in which we’re rooted.
Read More 7 things you can do if you can’t do a Climate Strike
The TreeHugger team has put together some suggestions for those who can’t take the day off work to go to a climate strike but want to do something.
Read More 4 Ways You Can Have a Positive Impact on the Planet
Take action today to protect the Earth.
Read More How to Have Difficult Conversations
Campaigners aren’t known for being contemplative. By definition they are trying to change something beyond themselves. But what if collective introspection made us into better campaigners by improving our ability to listen and learn, especially from those we disagree with?
Read More The Work Of Love Is To Love
My own time on earth has led me to believe in two powerful instruments that turn experience into love: holding and listening. For every time I have held or been held, every time I have listened or been listened to, experience burns like wood in that eternal fire and I find myself in the presence of love.
Read More In Their Own Words: The Challenges Of Being Vegan
Being vegan involves far more than dietary choices. This doctoral dissertation examines the communication challenges and coping strategies that can protect, maintain, and enhance vegan identity.
Read More Facing Extinction
Catherine Ingram offers deep meditations on the terrifying possibility of near term human extinction.
Read More How to Get Better at Thrift Shopping
“Shop second-hand” is a message often touted by eco-minded individuals, myself included. “It’s good for the planet! It’s good for your wallet!” we say, which is all good advice, but usually that’s where it ends. Fortunately, some professional guidance for navigating thrift stores is at hand.
Read More Raise Your Children to Be Happy, Healthy and Complete
Raising your children as conscious individuals is the best gift you can give to your children
Read More Revelator’s 16-plus Best Environmental Books of August
Things are heating up — and not just because it’s August. This past July was the hottest month in recorded history. That makes this month’s new books about climate change essential reading, along with other important new titles on pollution, wildlife, oceans and Indigenous peoples.
Read More 11 Years, 40,000 Trees & a ‘Crazy’ Hero: Meet Chitrakoot’s Tree Man
How did a single person’s efforts lead to a forest spanning five acres in Bundelkhand, a region notorious for its arid geography, sparse rainfall, and decade-long droughts?
Read More “If We Don’t Protect Nature We Can’t Protect Ourselves” – Harrison Ford | Extinction Rebellion
Harrison Ford gives an impassioned speech about the emergency resulting from our toxic economic and political system. He says that the way we relate to each other and to nature is destroying Earth’s capacity to sustain life.
Read More Why We Owe It to Ourselves to Spend Quiet Time Alone Every Day
By not giving ourselves the minutes — or hours — free of devices and distractions, we risk losing our ability to know who we are and what’s important to us, says physicist and writer Alan Lightman.
Read More Tinkering with Intent
Blair realized early in life that he didn’t need a lot to live, and that money and material possessions were not important. Instead he has chosen to value happiness, creativity, and well-being. He shares those values through his public gallery, where there is the chance to be irrevocably changed.
Read More Living in Two Worlds: Capitalism Pretends All Is Well While the World Is Burning
Global capitalism demands we pretend all is well, while climate and political realities already reveal the end game we are living in. The U.S. government, along with many others in the western world, has lurched into overt authoritarianism, while climate chaos accelerates at a breakneck pace.
Read More Bearing Witness: The Animal Dialogues
Craig Childs’ book, ‘The Animal Dialogues: Uncommon Encounters in the Wild’ offers compelling tales of creatures large and small, offering us a rare intimate glimpse into the lives of our fellow Earthlings.
Read More One Breath Around the World
A stunning video providing us with a truly immersive journey through the underwater world of our planet.
Read More Jane Goodall on Climate Change: ‘Something’s Got to Give’
At the age of 26, Dr Jane Goodall pioneered new ways of researching animals including by living with them. Now, aged 85 and a UN Messenger of Peace, she travels more than 300 days a year to share the urgency of taking action on climate change on behalf of all living things and the planet we share.
Read More Wild Imagination
One antidote to the colonization of the mind is the wild imagination. Cultivating the extraordinary human capacity to imagine alternate possibilities is, I believe, at least part of an essential navigation strategy for our times of multiple crises and ecological peril.
Read More Rich Roll, Ultra-Athlete | Reclaiming Your Vitality with a Conscious Lifestyle | 2017 CEO Summit
Rich Roll shares his journey from a lifestyle of an unconscious eating and alcohol addiction that took a toll on his health and well being to to reclaiming his vitality with conscious eating and lifestyle habits.
Read More Aikido: Modeling Mutual Empowerment and Deep Interconnectedness
Written by Wendy Palmer / Integration Training “The secret of aikido is to make yourself...
Read More The Work That Reconnects: A Tribute
In this hour-long tribute to “The Work the Reconnects,” Pat van Boeckel explores the stories of activists who have used Joanna Macy’s writings to enhance and support their service and their lives.
Read More 6 Simple Steps for Mindful Eating
If the term “mindful eating” conjures up visions of lithe Los Angelinos in expensive yoga pants meditating over a plate of raw greens, you are not alone. But the truth is, mindful eating is so much more than that; and in fact, I maintain that it is one of the best diets out there.
Read More Organic Gardening Helps Inmates Kick Drug Addiction
Orgainc gardening is being used to rehabilitate prison inmates battling drug addiction. One particular location, at HMP Rye Hill in England, has seen its Mandatory Drug Test failure rate go from 30 percent on average to zero in one year since implementing an organic gardening program.
Read More Plastic, Insects, Salmon and Climate Change: The 13 Best Environmental Books of July
The Revelator has picked the best new environmentally themed books coming out this July, with titles covering everything from insects and salmon to climate change and plastic pollution. There are even a few eco-poetry collections for those of you who’d like a little art with your inspiration.
Read MoreTwo Hours a Week in Nature Can Boost Your Health and Well-Being, Research Finds
New research has given credence to the age-old wisdom that spending time outside is good for you. A study recently published in Nature’s Scientific Reports journal found that people who spend at least 120 minutes in nature per week have higher odds of reporting better health and psychological well-being.
Read MoreIn the Face of Climate Collapse, We Need the Wisdom of Elders
Written by Barbara Cecil / TruthOut I am steadily on the lookout for leveraging forces that can lift us out of heavy stuck loops, onto new ground. Often these are less obvious elements. One that has been underestimated is the...
Read MoreThe Healing Power of Gardens: Oliver Sacks on the Psychological and Physiological Consolations of Nature
The role that nature plays in health and healing becomes even more critical for people working long days in windowless offices, for those living in city neighborhoods without access to green spaces, for children in city schools, or for those in institutional settings such as nursing homes. The effects of nature’s qualities on health are not only spiritual and emotional but physical and neurological. I have no doubt that they reflect deep changes in the brain’s physiology, and perhaps even its structure.
Read MoreHomo Sapiens: Not a “Machine”!
There is no such thing as “my body.” I am a human organism (Homo sapiens), synergistically comprised of organs, tissues, and fluids. Reciprocally interacting, deviation-reducing processes maintain an essentially balanced “steady-state.”
Read MoreA Culture of Care: Helping Activists and Their Allies Look After Themselves
Self-care is often the last thing on the minds of frontline human rights defenders. But it is the only thing that can make activism sustainable.
Read MoreArctic Is Thawing So Fast Scientists Are Losing Their Measuring Tools
With the ongoing acceleration of the climate crisis, it is clear that even if we believe the best-case scenarios, governments are not reacting according to the gravity of the situation at hand. Each one of us, knowing what we now know, must take full responsibility for preparing ourselves for the adaptation required to live on this increasingly warming, melting world as civilizations and societies continue to disintegrate.
Read MoreA New Republic of the Heart
My hope is that you will choose to enter this conversation. For me it is a first step in a process of building connections, conversations, relationships, and communities that both nourish and embody the higher potentials of our species, and that will provide a solid integral foundation on which we may begin to build together, in the clear, pure words of Charles Eisenstein, “the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible.”
Read More5 Podcasts to Inspire You on Climate
Five conversations and stories to remind you why we’re fighting this – and give you hope we’ll win.
Read More Māori Approach to Mental Health Offers Empowering Alternative to Western Psychiatry
A new article explores Mahi a Atua, an affirming, indigenous Māori healing practice which stands in contrast to the Western psychiatric methods typically promoted by the Movement for Global Mental Health.
Read MoreEverything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong
What really causes addiction — to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari’s questions took him around the world, and unearthed some surprising and hopeful ways of thinking about an age-old problem.
Read MoreWhat Would It Mean to Deeply Accept That We’re in Planetary Crisis?
Written by Dahr Jamail & Barbara Cecil / Truthout “We are not here to save the worldOnly to belong to it more fully.”–Author unknown At this critical planetary moment, the two of us are each considering what it means to...
Read MoreMeat Reduction And Vegan Promotion: A Report
A study with the “largest sample of meat reducers, pescatarians, vegetarians, and vegans in any research project to date” looks at the dynamics of meat reduction campaigns and campaigns promoting veganism.
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