by Michel Bauwens: originally posted at opendemocracy.net https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/michel-bauwens/if-we-can-have-p2p-economics-why-not-p2p-spirituality See my take on this topic: Encuentro: A New Model of Sangha Self-organizing fish shoal. Credit: http://cognition.ups-tlse.fr. All rights reserved. Is it possible to peer produce spiritual experience and insight, just as knowledge, software and code for computers are peer produced by communities of self-organizing individuals? If so, does this matter?… Read More If we can have p2p economics, why not p2p spirituality?

The following is a reproduction of a conversation we are having at Triratna Gender Diverse Buddhists on one member’s struggle with doubts about Buddhism and ‘being’ a Buddhist as opposed to practicing Buddhism. Of course, we all share the same struggle. As John Holloway would say, it’s our ‘misfitting’ within the status quo that is… Read More A Healthy Sangha Works with Struggle and Doubt

Insights From Mississippi on Organizing in a Right-Wing Context: A Conversation With Kali Akuno “What can we do that would lend us towards being in a position to shape the outcome of society on a municipal scale?” That led us to the creation of the Jackson-Kush Plan. Out of that plan, there were some things that we… Read More Resisting Oppression and Rebuilding Democracy

Dawn Haney: Refuge in the Unknown   Join BPF in a live video conference: Refuge and Resistance: Live Videoconference REFUGE & RESISTANCE Tuesday, January 24th, 2017 5:30–7pm PDT // 8:30–10pm EDT Join by Video (Preferred): https://zoom.us/j/646978571. Choose “join audio by computer.” Or by Phone: +1 646 558 8656 (US Toll); int’l numbers here. Meeting ID: 646 978 571… Read More BPF: Refuge and Resistance

I have been working on a theory that the Buddhist “story” of dependent origination (not the doctrine, the story), is a cultural narrative about evolution. Pratityasamutpada-as-evolution has a philosophical tradition in India that predates Buddhism: Samkhya philosophy. The History of Philosophy  without any gaps series (Kings College London) teaches Indian philosophy. It has a section on Samkhya… Read More The Evolution of Evolution Part III

by David McCleod, originally posted at Integral Permaculture. The former pastor, Rev. Michael Dowd, is best known as the author of the best-selling book, Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World. Dowd is a religious naturalist (“Religious naturalism (RN) combines a naturalist worldview with perceptions… Read More Michael Dowd: Standing for the Future