Spontaneous Presence

Reconciliation I: Peace as Rebellion

The fourth of the Deep Adaptation 4Rs framework, along with Resilience, Restoration and Relinquishing, is Reconciliation. We imagine its meaning

I’ve been receiving regular emails from Michael Meade for years. They are invariably timely and relevant topics full of the

In a chilling, factually grounded and provocative 2015 book, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene, Roy Scranton describes his tour

By Vera de Chalambert PUBLISHED IN Kosmosjounal: FALL | WINTER 2017 She appeared out of nowhere, as if from an

By Vera de Chalambert PUBLISHED IN FALL | WINTER 2017 When in the summer of 2015 I saw the breathtaking

What are we called to do in this time of collapse? Work harder? Think faster? Compartmentalize and multitask better? No.

Listen for the Beloved. The walls fall down. Listen for the Beloved. The Stories wither to dust. Listen for the

(excerpted from the Dark Mountain Manifesto) The myth of progress is founded on the myth of nature. The first tells

There are many ways to describe the human drama at this moment. We can talk about psychology or brain function,

Tell me again how we all came from the same place. Where you are here, opening your palm to the shaking