Breaking the System: A Review of Surviving the Future By Erik Curren, originally published by Transition Voice June 28, 2016 Stalin was only one of many revolutionaries to think that you have to break a few eggs to solve big problems. Today, some activists think that you have to break the capitalist system to save… Read More Buddhist Futures: After the Apocalypse
Published on Dec 8, 2013 Urbanatomy’s Nick Land gives us his take on the prompt: “Future Now: Making the Machines of Tomorrow”. This excerpt is part of the Hacked Matter workshop from the 2013 Shanghai Maker Carnival. Watch through to his second remark at 2:18, when he talks about dependent origination: the more we know… Read More Buddhist Futures: Nick Land and the Buddhist [Un]Real
Story by Rev. Janet Kroboth-Weber, Rockland Coordinator of Water Walk for Life, edited by Shaun Bartone, Editor, Engage! The Water Water Walk for Life initiated by the Grafton Peace Pagoda, in Grafton, NY, under the direction of Jun-San Yesuda, Buddhist nun of the Nipponzan Miyohoji order. After an eight-day, 90-mile walk along the Spectra AIM… Read More Water Walk for Life Along Pilgrim Pipeline in Northern New Jersey
by Jason Espada Engage would like to welcome a new contributor to the magazine, Jason Espada from San Francisco. Jason is a writer, Buddhist practitioner, and a classical guitarist. His father, Frank Espada, took the photos that illustrate this article. You can find Jason’s work here: http://jasonespada.com/ http://www.abuddhistlibrary.com/ https://jespada.bandcamp.com/ (classical guitar) http://www.thefrankespadagalleries.com/ (my father’s photography) June 17,… Read More Freedom of Mind – the Root of the Social Gospel
We are coming back to life and this changes everything By Dr. Daniel Wahl [This is an excerpt from my book Designing Regenerative Cultures, published by Triarchy Press in May 2016] Feb 26 Evolutionary activism is socio-ecological innovation that drives transformative culture change. In kairos, this time of transformation that Joanna Macy calls the “Great… Read More Buddhist Futures: Gaia Culture
By Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation Spiritual expression, and the religious organizational formats in which context it will take place, is always embedded in a social structure. For example, we could say that the tribal forms of religion, such as animism and shamanism, do not have elaborate hierarchical structures as they arose in societal structures that… Read More Buddhist Futures:The Next Buddha Will Be a Collective
A Feminism for the 99 Percent: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on the March 8 Women’s Strike University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee students protest against Donald Trump’s hateful rhetoric in Wisconsin, January 1, 2014. (Photo: Joe Brusky / Flickr) Since election night 2016, the streets of the US have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with… Read More Keenga-Yamahtta Taylor on the March 8 Women’s Strike
