The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. -Lao Tzu Cultivating Awareness Last week, I asked you if you were really and truly ready to understand what it means to “be woke.” Have you been thinking about it? There is no better time than now to wake up from the dreams… Read More Yeshe Matthews: Cultivating Awareness
[Editor: the following thesis, “communism as spirituality”, is a total revision of the way communism has been theorized and practiced historically, which has been overtly hostile toward any kind of spirituality or religion. However, perhaps this green revisionist communism is a welcome change. For the theistic language used here, one could easily substitute non-theistic Buddhist philosophy.] by PAUL TRITSCHLER 21… Read More If communism is dead, can spirituality revive it?
BY PABLO DAS NOVEMBER 17, 2016 originally published in Lion’s Roar Last week, someone sent me a link to the LionsRoar.com article, “Buddhist Teachers Respond to Trump’s Presidential Win.” Several Buddhist teachers had written a paragraph or two offering their wisdom. As I read, I felt a very familiar disappointment and anger arising in me. While some of the… Read More Why this gay Buddhist teacher is dubious about Buddhist refuge in the Trump era
Goodbye, American neoliberalism. A new era is here | Cornel West Cornel West originally published in the Guardian UK ‘What is to be done? First we must try to tell the truth.’ Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images The neoliberal era in the United States ended with a neofascist bang. The political triumph of Donald Trump shattered the… Read More Cornell West: Goodbye Neoliberalism
These presentations from Josh Korda (When the Fit Hits the Shan) and Tommy Rosen (How to Avoid Relapse) can be useful guides for those of us affected by trauma, PTSD, addiction and depression in response to this election. From Josh Korda: https://www.podbean.com/media/player/g3av2-64a93a From Tommy Rosen: We knew we wanted to stop. We may have gone… Read More How to Survive the Election Apocalypse
It’s Worse Than You Think by Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/its_worse_than_you_think_20161111 New York City police officers guard Trump Tower, President-elect Donald Trump’s Manhattan home. (Richard Drew / AP) Widespread social unrest will ignite when Donald Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed. I do not know when this will happen. But that it will happen is certain. Investments… Read More The End of Growth III: Weimar Republic
Raúl Ilargi Meijer Dorothea Lange Family of rural rehabilitation client, Tulare County, CA 1938 It’s over! The entire model our societies have been based on for at least as long as we ourselves have lived, is over! That’s why there’s Trump. There is no growth. There hasn’t been any real growth for years. All there is left… Read More The End of Growth II: Why There is Trump
