Present as Prologue
We are in the midst of an awakening, a rough transition from the dream of modernity and the emerging reality of its failing, if not wholly false, promises of universal prosperity and abundance.
Category: Deep Adaptation
Repose (as in…final)
It seems perfectly logical to say we will all be confronted with a series of moments tightening the grip of death in which we will have to decide what we believe and what our conscious role shall be in attending and adapting to a process that is both in and out of our hands, that is entirely real and entirely illusory.
Reciprocity
True reciprocity, or what we could call emergence, is an omni-variant, non-linear dynamic beyond our feeble attempts to determine chronology, origins, directions or destinations.
Revelation & Recovery
The appeal of post-activism–a walk into the desert beyond the last swimming pool, is an escape from human centrality, an intention to tend the wounds we have inflicted on our world, on ourselves, by presuming humans alone are the drivers of social change.
Rage & Resignation
I’ve been in a rage since before the financial collapse of 2008. Well, actually, a good deal longer than that.
Personal Justice
I could be pushing myself into ‘activism,’ reaching out to interact in a larger process or to articulate a view of what is important, communicating with others and formulating strategies, a timeline of objectives. But all of that is falling away.
Things I Can No Longer Do #1
There is nothing further left for me in data-heavy climate tracts. I have to turn away now. I don’t want to know—at least not in the cognitive sense of knowing–because I already know.
Collapse Redux
The basis of Jem Bendell’s original and revised paper on climate-induced societal collapse and Deep Adaptation was his review of current climate
The Eye of the Storm
The state of gnosis is defined as an arrival of total awareness, a direct and often sudden experience of reality, wholeness, some
Bumps in the Road
Things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster.
Spontaneous Presence 