Buddhist, Yoga, Dharma friends: the Mastodon Instance Dharma Realm is ready! Invite: https://ganesha.masto.host/invite/g6LzfAjs Dharma Realm is hosted at ganesha.masto.host Dharma Realm is a Mastodon Instance for Buddhism, Dharma, Yoga, Advaita, and related spiritualities (Secular Buddhism, Naturalism, Tao, etc).I’m looking for a hosting partner to help moderate the site. If you’re interested in working on this project, please… Read More The Dharma Realm is Ready
Engage! is dedicating it’s space on the web to highlight one cause, and this time it’s Detention Watch Network’s campaign to end family detention, to end the rape and abuse of women and children in immigrant detention centers, to demand justice for the “disappearance” of 1500 children under DHS custody…this brutality and injustice is an… Read More Engage w/Detention Watch Network
ENGAGE! IS THE DHARMA OF CRITICAL ENGAGEMENT, social, scientific and spiritual. Our mission is to bring about awakening through the exploration of our deep interconnectedness, our interbeing with the phenomenal world. Engage! is beginning a new project of focusing on social innovation and creativity. If you would like to participate in this project, by submitting articles… Read More Get Engaged! Submit Your Beautiful Noise
Jaron Lanier argues that the use of social media by social justice movements polarizes and intensifies tribalism and conflict. Social media algorithms are programmed to select posts that amplify opposition and conflict in order to increase ‘engagement.’ Jaron Lanier is one of the foremost digital visionaries of our times. One of Silicon Valley’s key early… Read More Jaron Lanier on Conflict in Social Media
Graham Jones, of London Radical Mindfulness, in conversation with Alex Williams, talks about his theory and praxis of social movements from his book, The Shock Doctrine of the Left. Jone’s book and talk applies systems theory and networks to radical movements on the Left. Recording of the launch event for Shock Doctrine of the Left, at… Read More Systems, Networks and Radical Movements
German Police Evict Anti-Coal Activists From a 12,000-Year-Old Forest (in Photos) The protesters have occupied a community of tree houses for six years to oppose a nearby coal mine. Emily MoonSep 15, 2018 Police evicted protesters Thursday from a vast, old-growth forest in western Germany, where they’ve lived in a community of tree houses for… Read More Defending the Forest
[Editor: I’d like to bring attention to the good work at the Tattooed Buddha Project, which features a blog and a podcast. The Project is a collective work of several men and woman who write and discuss dharma practice and dharma culture. Many of the contributors are/were practitioners in the Against the Stream and Dharma… Read More Tattooed Buddha: Panel on Sexual Misconduct
[Editor: this blog has presented several articles by Umair Haque on the peculiar nature of fascism and violent collapse in the United States. He has written that it is built on violent authoritarianism, white nationalism, blaming marginalized minorities and people of color for their oppressive social conditions, blaming the poor for their poverty and unemployment,… Read More Neo-Liberal Fascism
The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Canadian News Program The Agenda welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, who over the past decade and a half has made his name as a columnist, activist and author. He’s been a vociferous public critic of presidents on both sides of the American political spectrum, and his latest book, ‘America,… Read More Chris Hedges: America, the Farewell Tour
Chris Johnston was a member of the Buddhafield cult in Los Angeles in the 80s. Chris made a documentary about the cult, called “Holy Hell”. http://www.holyhellthedocumentary.com/ Chris was interviewed by ‘Richard’ of Deep State Consciousness, who has himself been involved in Eastern spiritual movements and cults: https://youtu.be/TRbiHdTYSfI Chris Johnston left the cult and went on… Read More Extremist Political Groups Act like Cults
