By Josh Jones; originally published at Open Culture 20 Lessons from the 20th Century About How to Defend Democracy from Authoritarianism, According to Yale Historian Timothy Snyder Rather than making a historical case for viewing the U.S. as exactly like one of the totalitarian regimes of WWII Europe, Snyder presents 20 lessons we might learn from those… Read More Resisting Fascism, Building Resilience
What has just begun at the Inauguration of Donald Trump is the class war to end all class wars. Lately I’ve been thinking that this election is indeed a class war, but it has nothing to do with “us”, the working class, the 99%. Rather it’s a class war amongst the Plutocrats, the billionaire class that… Read More Now It’s All of Us
In my survey of Buddhistic science fiction, I should have included the legendary Dune by Frank Herbert, published in 1965. I remember my younger brother was enthralled with Dune and read several books in the early series. Like many science fiction novels of the 60s, it was filled with references to 60s counter-culture, in this case, futuristic… Read More Dune: Sufi-Zen Sci-Fi
UPDATED: Jan. 24, 2017 “All mental phenomena have mind as their forerunner; they have mind as their chief; they are mind-made. If one speaks or acts with a sick mind, ‘dukkha‘ follows him just as the wheel follows the hoofprint of the ox that draws the cart. . . If one speaks or acts with… Read More Gilbert’s Social Science of Mind
I’m reading Mindful Compassion (2014) by Dr. Paul Gilbert and Choden. It’s a continuation of Gilbert’s work on the neuroscience of compassion, captured in his first book The Compassionate Mind (2009). Gilbert’s work on compassion is based in evolutionary psychology. Like me, he saw the parallels in Buddhist teachings and evolution. For that reason, I’d like to… Read More Dr. Paul Gilbert: Mindful Compassion
Bayo Akomolafe Bayo is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change, and was recently enlisted as the recipient of the Global Excellence Award (Civil Society) 2014 by FutureShapers (California). He is the Initiating/Coordinating Curator for The Emergence Network (A Post-Activist Project) [http://www.emergencenetwork.org], and host… Read More The Burden of the New Story
[Editor: I am always on the lookout for new approaches to engagement and social action. This blog, The Emergence Network, which I stumbled into via Bayo Akomolafe’s piece (The Burden of the New Story), is exactly what I have been looking for and where I am going.] What if the way we respond to the… Read More The Emergence Network
