A talk which I gave at the fourth Cosmology of Love conference at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco on April 14, 2012.

The Ecology of Justice: Transforming the victim/perpetrator paradigm

ABSTRACT:
The cosmos is profoundly and fundamentally relational and the beauty of justice can perhaps be described in the symmetry of ( Read more... )

**Note that this journal is in transition. Stay tuned for a new blog at  Lunapoiesis coming in September 2012!**

I would like to present an essay I wrote, setting forth Joanna Macy's concept of  "The Great Turning," which refers to the conscious, human choice of turning away from destructive empire and life-negating ways of being, towards Earth ( Read more... )

"If only there were evil people somewhere else insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were simply necessary to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
--Alexander Sozhenitsyn

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If one had to name one quality as the genius of the patriarchy, it would be compartmentalization, the capacity for institutionalizing disconnection. Intellect severed from emotion. Thought separated from action. Science split from art. The earth itself divided; national borders. Human beings categorized by sex, age, race, ethnicity, sexual ( Read more... )

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without any loss of enthusiasm."
  --Winston Churchill

"The novelists William Styron and George Orwell, and the social philosopher Hannah Arendt, in writing of totalitarian evil and the Nazi systematic murders in particular, have each come to the conclusion that evil is not what one expects: cruelty, moral perversion, power abuse, terror.  These are its instruments or its results.  But the deepest evil ( Read more... )

It is hot ( Read more... )

A Spider Playing in the House

Conventional knowledge is death
to our souls, and it is not really ours.

We must become ignorant
of what we have been taught,
and be, instead, bewildered.

Run from what is profitable and comfortable.
If you drink those liqueurs, you will spill
the springwater of your real life.

Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
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"Community is a safe place precisely because no one is attempting to heal or convert you, to fix you, to change you.  Instead the members accept you as you are,  You are free to be you.  And being so free, you are free to discard defenses, masks, disguises: free to seek your own psychological and spiritual health."
   -M. Scott Peck

By this ( Read more... )