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

"The basic problem is to understand that there are no such things as things; that is to say separate things, separate events. That is only a way of talking. What do you mean by a thing? A thing is a noun. A noun isn't a part of nature it's a part of speech. There are no nouns in the physical world. There are no separate things in the physical world ( Read more... )

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."
  --Howard Zinn

"...the greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone ( Read more... )

"Experience is irrelevant to ideology."
  --Hannah Arendt

"Terror as the counterpart of propaganda played a greater role in Nazism than in Communism.  The Nazis did not strike at prominent figures as had been done in the earlier wave of political crimes in Germany (the murder of Rathenau and Erzberger); instead, by killing small socialist functionaries or influential members of opposing parties, they ( Read more... )

And yet I've changed.... reading the United States' Declaration of Independence as an assignment in a class with Susan Griffin, called "The Inner Life of Democracy," as mentioned in the preceding post, I can tell I have a slightly different reaction to injustice, than I used to have.

Reading the Declaration of Independence in light of the recent ( Read more... )

I am most fortunate to be taking a class with the poet and author Susan Griffin, called "The Inner Life of Democracy," and I'm very excited by her great ideas, especially on the origins of democracy being within the individual, our own response to "authority" and "freedom."  Democracy and freedom has its origins in the individual, as does ( Read more... )