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Voluntary Simplicity – A Path to Sustainable Prosperity
Voluntary simplicity is not about living in poverty; it is about living with balance. This contribution illuminates the pattern of changes that an increasing number of people around the world are making their everyday lives as an active response to the challenges of our times. By embracing a lifeway of simplicity – characterized by a compassionate and ecological consciousness, frugal consumption, and inner development – people can change their lives and, in the process, move the world toward sustainable prosperity.
Journal Article
THE BUDDHA AWAKENING, INTEGRAL EXPANDING, AND A SECOND AXIAL AGE FOR HUMANITY
Ken Wilber has stated that one of history's most important spiritual teachers, the Buddha, was \"half-enlightened\" because he realized only the experience of cessation and not the full, nondual experience of integrating emptiness and form. This article examines the evidence for this assertion and concludes that the Buddha was fully awakened as his experience joined the unmanifest generative ground with the realm of form in a singular flow of interdependent co-arising. Importantly, when the Buddha's awakening experience is considered along with the world's wisdom traditions, it provides insight into a second axial age around which the world can pivot into a more sustainable and promising pathway toward the future. A huge area of untapped potential awaits development if Integral Theory recognizes the Buddha's awakening as interdependent co-arising.
Journal Article
Love as a Great Transition Story
The stories we tell shape our view of ourselves and the path we take through this time of collective awakening and global turning. We have the ability to consciously choose narratives that offer realistic beacons of hope to guide our way through the Great Transition. To achieve authentic and lasting reconciliation as the foundation for our future, we require the power of love and compassion as a practical basis for organizing human affairs.
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The self-guiding evolution of civilizations
The universe is creating self‐organizing and self‐referencing systems at every scale. In accord with this dynamic, the human family is working to become consciously self‐organizing at progressively larger scales. We have evolved from awakening hunter‐gatherers to a species that has created a wired world whose actions are changing the face of the planet. Because the impact of humanity is now global, that is the scale at which we are challenged to become reflective if we are to be choiceful about our common future. We are challenged to no longer ‘run on automatic’, but to pay attention to how we pay attention as entire civilizations. The vehicle of collective attention at a civilizational scale is the mass media—particularly broadcast television. If civilizations are to realize their potential for full reflective consciousness and become self‐guiding in their evolution, then it is vital for the public to mobilize the public's airwaves on behalf of the public interest. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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The garden of simplicity: many diverse expressions of simplicity of living are flowering in response to the challenges and opportunities of our times
Importantly, the simple life is not simple. Many diverse expressions of simplicity of living are flowering in response to the challenges and opportunities of our times. To present a more realistic picture of the scope and expression of this way of life for today's complex world, here are ten different approaches that I see thriving in a \"garden of simplicity\". Although there is overlap among them, each expression of simplicity seems sufficiently distinct to warrant a separate category. So there would be no favoritism in listing, they are placed in alphabetical order based on the brief name I associated with each. 3. Compassionate Simplicity: Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we \"choose to live simply so that others may simply live\". A compassionate simplicity means feeling a bond with the community of life and drawn toward a path of reconciliation - with other species and future generations as well as, for example, between those with great differences of wealth and opportunity. A compassionate simplicity is a path of cooperation and fairness that seeks a future of mutually assured development for all. 8. Political Simplicity: Simplicity means organizing our collective lives in ways that enable us to live more lightly and sustainably on the Earth which, in turn, involves changes in nearly every area of public life - from transportation and education to the design of our homes, cities and workplaces. The politics of simplicity is also a media politics as the mass media are the primary vehicle for reinforcing - or transforming - the mass consciousness of consumerism. Political simplicity is a politics of conversations and community that builds from local, face-to-face connections to networks of relationships emerging around the world through the enabling power of television and the Internet.
Magazine Article
Conscious Democracy Through Town Meetings
A representative approach to mass community dialogue and feedback that was tested successfully in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1987 with a prime-time Electronic Town Meeting is described.
Magazine Article