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I am the co-organizer of the law track in the Ecological Civilization conference described in the events section of this Musings. This track illustrates the kind of work that will be done in each of the 83 tracks in the conference. It is also illustrative of the work CES is doing and will continue to…
THE BRIEFING You are new here and have been given the keys. Iāve been asked to lay out the big picture Of how the world works ā from our point of view Without the feel good bullshit. You are being paid too much to need that. First, understand that it is all related And itās…
Was it weather or was it climate? The colder winter anomaly in the Eastern United States For those of us in the eastern part of the United States, the shortest month was long and hard. About the time we recovered from one severe cold front, another moved in. February 2015 continued a trend James Hansen…
Editorās Note: Thomas Berry often wrote about spirituality, the sacred and the divine. Here are three articles related to Thomas Berryās sense of the sacred. The third article on the āInterspiritual Movementā did not come out of the Thomas Berry community as such. It is presented as additional new spiritual/religious movements will be presented in…
ENERGY As we enter 2015, we celebrate progress in clean energy technologies achieved in 2014, highlighting just a few advances. An emissions-free, natural gas power generation plant has reached the demonstration stage. A 50MWt (megawatt; one megawatt-hour is 1 million Watt hours) plant that will be built in Texas in 2016 will validate the…
CES to co-sponsor conference on āSeizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecological Civilization,ā Claremont, California, June 4-7, 2015. The Center for Ecozoic Societies is now an official Co-Sponsor of the conference āSeizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecological Civilization,ā Claremont, California, June 4-7, 2015. Herman Greene to co-lead Law Track of conference on āSeizing an…
February (February 17, 2015) What was a prodigious bower of tendril, leaf, and pod, snaps under my fracturing fingers as I tidy the guide wires to which they cleaved in summer. Dreams of immortality are only for humans who separate soul from the stuff of which we are all made. And I am to practice…
PSALM AFTER THE HOLOCAUST (December 2013) How can anyone make a joyful noise Praising the mysterious power that Guides the universe, depth calling unto Depth, when so much fear pervades our time? The first word can only be Silence Profound and unutterableā Dark as the unbelievable pain The second word is resilience…
Winterās Wrap (February 21, 2015) Snow Freezing rain Rain frozen Now a sheet of ice More snow Lubricating the ice Down I go On my tail Do I have a tail? Dogs slipping Cars slipping Children sledding And slipping New snow A winter wonderland Evening falls Wind blows Snow flies from…
Should we call our planet āthe earth,ā āearth,ā or āEarthā? Generally our planet should be called āEarth.ā Like the other planets, it should be capitalized and generally not be preceded by āthe.ā When earth refers to soil, it should not be capitalized. We donāt say, the Mars, and certainly not the mars, or the Venus…
Thomas Berry calls for intimate rapport with Earth community and for celebrating the grand liturgy of the universe. He says that no viable mode of human presence on the planet will take place until this happens. We look for ancient and new ways to accomplish this. For many Celtic spirituality has become a primary resource….
Hakima Betty Lou Chaika isĀ Coordinator of the Ziraat Circle, Rose Heart Suļ¬ Community At Imbolc we call back the sun and call forth the transformative flame of Brigid, the Celtic Goddess of healing, inspiration and creativity, as the natural world begins to awaken from its dream of hibernation. Embodied ritual opens us to the possibility…
Sunday Salon: February 1, 2015 Presented by Ann Loomis Reviewed by Marilyn McNamara Groundhog Day can be a reminder and an invitation to all of us that facing oneās shadow can be a winter task of importance. Seasoned workshop presenter and author of a new book, Celtic Cycles: Guidance from the Soul on the…
Ann Loomis is the author of Celtic Cycles: Guidance from the Soul on the Spiritual Journey. This book realigns the soulās wisdom with the rhythms and creatures of the natural world. As with some animals, the soul is in danger of extinction if we do not find a way to listen to its guidance. Writings…
The following essay would be a stunning accomplishment by a person of any age. It is even more remarkable that it is by Matthew David Segall, a man in his twenties. Matthew undertakes with aplomb the task of making sense of modern science and evolutionary theory in light of Whiteheadās philosophy and also a vision…
Consumption With this issue we introduce the category of Consumption, a topic that becomes especially conspicuous at this time of the year. Consumption is the corollary to Pollution and Climate Change; you canāt have one without the other, at least not in the Economic-Industrial model. We offer two December stories on the subject. The first…
Alfred North Whitehead was a British mathematician, logician, and philosopher. His early work, as a student and professor at Cambridge University, was on mathematics and logic. The second period, 1910-24, when he had appointments at University College London and Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, he concentrated on the philosophy of science. The…
What Is Process Philosophy? A process philosophy is one that understands the universe as continually becoming. In the Greek tradition Heraclitus said than no person ever steps into the same river twice. He was in the process tradition. Daoism and Buddhism are also in the process tradition. The opposite of process philosophy is not ontology,…