Dear Engage Readers: It’s really hard to talk about capitalism in Buddhist circles because its not something you can “feel in your body” like racism or sexism. It’s not a biological trait like skin colour or genitals. It’s an assigned social status, a social class that you are either born into or that you acquire… Read More The Global Architecture of Wealth Extraction

Do You Still Feel Capitalism Dying? Joe BrewerJul 24 I am a change strategist working on behalf of humanity, and also a complexity researcher, cognitive scientist, and evangelist for the field of culture design. There is a malaise of loneliness and despair in our broken world. Can you feel capitalism dying around you? There is a… Read More The Pain You Feel is Capitalism Dying

Debbie Bookchin Debbie Bookchin is an author, award-winning journalist and co-editor of The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2014), a collection of essays by Murray Bookchin.originally published at Roar Mag   I am the daughter of two longtime municipalists. My mother, Beatrice Bookchin, ran for city council of Burlington, Vermont thirty years… Read More Radical Municipalism: The Future We Deserve

Vince Horn, co-founder of Buddhist Geeks, comes out of a long period of silence in Buddhist Geekland to tell us what’s been happening in his world. Vince lets us in on the profound disillusionment he experienced with ‘lineage’ Buddhism, calling it a ‘love-hate’ relationship. But he also lets us know where Buddhist Geeks is going… Read More Vince Horn: Stirrings from the Bardo

I've just discovered Christopher Titmuss, a Theravada teacher who trained as a monk in Thailand and India for ten years, co-founded Gaia House in Devon, UK, and was one of the first teachers at the Insight Center in Barre, MA. He teaches in India annually, and around the world, but sadly, not in North America… Read More Chris Titmuss: The Transformed Life

Futurica Trilogy: How the Internet is going to Kill Industrial Capitalism and the Western Enlightenment Idea of the Individual. This video by Alexander Bard, one of the authors of the Futurica Trilogy, explains how the internet is the fourth communication revolution. The internet is a ‘single organism’ that obliterates the western enlightenment concept of the individual.… Read More Buddhist Futures: Futurica & the Internet Sangha

Raising A White Child As A Black Parent In An Age of White Guilt Hysteria and Self-Flagellation Oliver CampbellFollow Fiction author. Shorty Awards Athlete Finalist. Contributor at The Escapist Magazine. Endurance cyclist. Renaissance man. Mar 15 A Response to ‘Are We Raising Racists?’ This piece is written as a counter opinion to Jennifer Harvey’s Op-Ed… Read More Response to ‘Are We Raising Racists?’