The following article by Jody Radzik explains how a particular form of yogic non-dualism—that Self is God-All—contributes to the corruption of gurus and spiritual teachers. But it leaves aside the other theory of non-dualism that is essentially Buddhist–non-self, Self is nothing or does not exist–and how that contributes to guru corruption. I have observed that just as… Read More Jody Radzik: Non-Dualism and Guru Corruption
In this piece, Nafeez Ahmed reports on an project of Dr Otto Scharmer, senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, co-founder of MIT’s Presencing Institute, to change ‘corporate consciousness’ in order to make capitalism responsive to ecological limits. Neoclassical economists, he says, do not acknowledge how changes in “human awareness and consciousness” can “influence human… Read More Conscious Capital? Or Delusional Smokescreen?
I came across this very interesting dialogue between Josh Korda and Otto von Bush, a Buddhist practitioner who was also a fashion scholar, on the subject of Buddhist practice and fashion. ‘This book records a discussion on a Buddhist approach to fashion. The discussants are Otto von Busch, fashion scholar at Parsons the New School… Read More Buddha Style: Buddhist Practice and Fashion
Activists Condemn Failure of COP23 to Address Interrelated Crises of Climate, Energy & Inequality The Indian subcontinent, including India, the Himalayas, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka is becoming uninhabitable for over 1 billion people, due to floods, droughts, and extreme temperatures. by Amy Goodman posted at Resilience.org On the last day of the… Read More COP23: Climate, Energy and Inequality
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now visits a group of forest dwellers occupying a portion of the Hambach Forest in Rhineland, western Germany. The squatters are preventing the remaining ten percent of the Hambach Forest from being leveled and mined for lignite, dirty brown coal, which produces highest level of CO2 when burned. The RWE Co.… Read More DN: Occupied Forest Stops Dirty Coal
This was a deeply convincing presentation based on conventional science, and there’s so much further one could go with this. Tom Chi says it with warmth and grace. Tom Chi has worked in a wide range of roles from astrophysical researcher to Fortune 500 consultant to corporate executive developing new hardware/software products and services. He… Read More Tom Chi: Everything IS Connected
The UN COP 23 Climate discussions are just beginning in Bonn, Germany. I have been following the UN COP Climate Climate conferences for ten years. I have been working on climate change as a social condition for just as long. I’m about to finish my dissertation on social ecology movements as a response to climate… Read More Interconnected: within and without
