A New Way of Thinking

A New Way of Thinking

Daniel Quinn worked in Chicago-area publishing for twenty years before beginning work on the book for which he is best known, “Ishmael”. This book was chosen from among some 2500 international entrants to win the half-million dollar 1991 Turner Tomorrow competition for a novel offering “creative and positive solutions to global problems.” The novel has subsequently sold more than a million copies in English, is available in some thirty...
A Heart’s Journey

A Heart’s Journey

A talk by Joanna Harcourt-Smith at the Women’s Visionary Congress at the IONS Retreat Center, Petaluma, California (July 27-29, 2012). The Women’s Visionary Congress (WVC) is a gathering of visionary women healers, scholars, activists and artists who study consciousness and altered states. The WVC supports the transfer of knowledge among women who apply the insights of their research and spiritual path. We gather annually on beautiful land in Northern...
The Space In Between

The Space In Between

Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. His writings on the web magazine Reality Sandwich have generated a vast online following; he speaks frequently at conferences and other events, and gives numerous interviews on radio and podcasts. Eisenstein graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a degree in Mathematics and Philosophy, and spent the next ten years as a...
“Disobey with Great Love”

“Disobey with Great Love”

Pancho Ramos-Stierle has a passion for astrobiology that brought him to the University of California at Berkeley to pursue a Ph.D in Astrophysics. But when the government of the part of the Planet we call the U.S. and the laboratories of the university announced they were developing “safer nuclear weapons,” he decided to stop cooperating with the institution. Now as a responsible scientist, he says he is doing his “PhDO in Citizenship of the...
A Message from Joanna

A Message from Joanna

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Circles of Eco-resilience

Circles of Eco-resilience

Depth psychologist Craig Chalquist, MS PhD,  is a core faculty member in East-West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a former core (now adjunct) faculty in the Department of Consciousness Studies at John F. Kennedy University, and on the Board of Directors for Holos Institute. He is the author of “Terrapsychology: Re-engaging the Soul of Place” (2007), “Deep California” (2008), “Storied Lives” (2009),...