You may be getting tired of hearing that we find ourselves at a critical point in history. And you may wonder what all the disasters and major events of the past 5 years have in common. In 2008, the world experienced a financial crisis. Then, a ruthless war in Syria…

All of us want peaceful, productive, and meaningful lives. And most of us have a difficult time understanding why that’s becoming more and more elusive. The trouble with us humans is that we have so much mental inertia that the very last thing that occurs to us is that our…

A fellow Medium writer recently published a piece titled Anorexic Soul. It made me think about the contrast between the pervasive Western condition he describes of being so “steeped in the ideas of cause and effect in the material sense” that the sense of the sacred is lost — and…

Whether we like it or not, we are at the edge of a paradigm shift both in planetary resources and consciousness. What do you feel when you stand in front of the Grand Canyon? Do you feel small and insignificant, or do you feel AWE? Pre-conscious civilizations felt small and…

We can no longer avoid it. The fact is staring us in the face, everywhere, that we are living in a time of reckoning and it is bringing about massive and growing devastation — both of our planet and of our societies. Not only are more and more youth dying…

The April 2 issue of The Economist ends up its lead article, Why Ukraine must win: A decisive victory could transform the security of Europe, with a short but powerful section titled “Lift up your eyes”. …