Montreal Protesters Shut Down NEB Hearing on Energy East
BREAKING: NEB cancels Energy East hearing in Montreal as protesters storm the room The National Energy Board cancelled its scheduled panel session on the Energy East pipeline project after protesters … Continue reading
McGhee: Millennials Lose 8.8 Trillion Due to Climate Change
A new study has found that without action on climate change, the millennial generation as a whole will lose nearly $8.8 trillion in lifetime income dealing with the economic, health … Continue reading
Consciousness and the Social Brain
Another book I absolutely must read but don’t have time: Michael S. A. Graziano’s Consciousness and the Social Brain (2013, Oxford Univ. Press) I scanned the summary page that encapsulates his theory of … Continue reading
Dennis Banks: We Are the Environment
Dennis Banks, co-founder of the American Indian Movement, has also taken part in the protests against the Dakota pipeline. Banks also was part of the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff: DENNIS BANKS: What’s … Continue reading
LaDuke: Enbridge Has No Right to Destroy Our Future
In North Dakota, more than a thousand indigenous activists from different tribes have converged at the Sacred Stone Spirit Camp, where protesters are blocking construction of the proposed $3.8 billion … Continue reading
Occupying the Prairie: Tensions Rise as Tribes Move to Block a Pipeline
Lakota riders from the Rosebud, Standing Rock and Lower Brule Reservations stood against a police line in a peaceful demonstration this month as part of a traditional ceremony to introduce … Continue reading
Gov Orders Police to Cut Water Supply to Native Americans as Pipeline Protesters Skyrocket
from Warrior Publications Thousands join protest camp as supporters are holding a rally in Washington D.C. on Wednesday outside of Army Corps hearing. Growing in number and spirit, the Standing Rock Sioux protest against the Dakota Access … Continue reading
Paradox: Mystery Is Endless Knowability
Richard Rohr is a Franciscan Monk who teaches the Roman Catholic mystical tradition from a non-dualist perspective, incorporating many Buddhist and eastern ideas and practices. He’s one of the few Catholic teachers I draw … Continue reading
Avant-Garde Buddhism
I finally hit on what it is that I’ve been seeking in my Buddhist practice that is so missing in the usual sanghas of Buddhism-as-religion: avant-garde Buddhism. I have called … Continue reading
Thich Nhat Hanh on Interbeing
These words of wisdom for Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on interbeing are a classic statement about the interconnectedness of all phenomena. For example, if you think about the recent tragedy in the marine ecosystem of central Vietnam, … Continue reading
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