Nature and Ecology
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"Frontline Spirituality" with Starhawk
Author and global justice activist, Starhawk, one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality, talks with host Stephen Dinan about permaculture, spiritual activism, and our sacred connection to the environment. She recommends taking at least five minutes each day to simply observe nature and deepen our sense of reverence for life around us.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-10-14
- 01:04:42
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Fields of Form
The hypothesis of morphic fields continues to be a fascinating and controversial theory of how organization occurs in the natural world. Sheldrake’s theory touches on a wide variety of ...
- Publications Articles
- December 2004 - February 2005
- 5 pages
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The Dance of Choice and Choicelessness
Kumar offers a personal perspective on the paradox of choice.
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2004
- 4 pages
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Biology Revisioned
Biology Revisioned presents an engaging look at the changing state of biology and proposes that we reconsider our views of science and life. Harman and Sahtouris suggest that it is an historical accident that physics came to be the generally accepted root discipline of science ...
- Publications Books
- July 1, 1998
- 320 pages
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The Wild Human
In his new book, Nature and the Human Soul, depth psychologist Bill Plotkin introduces a visionary ecopsychology of human development that reveals how fully and creatively we can mature when ...
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2008
- 6 pages
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The Eco-Trauma and Eco-Recovery of Being
Our loss of deep intimacy with the natural world has had a devastating impact on human flourishing, perpetuating a vicious cycle of personal violence and ecological destruction. Restoring a felt ...
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2007
- 5 pages
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The Science of Peace
This project proposes a comprehensive strategy to form a new multidisciplinary “science of peace.”
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Standing in the Light
In a glorious new memoir, a prize-winning natural science writer meditates on the history and meaning of pantheism.
- Publications Books
- July 1, 2008
- 356 pages
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Inspirationals
International photographer Marian Kraus published his first collection of photography and writings, entitled Inspirationals. The content, divided into four chapters - stone, sand, tree, and water - captures and conveys the interconnectedness of all that is in and around us in its most essential and purest form ...
- Publications Books
- September 10, 2007
- 98 pages
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Van Jones One Minute Shift | It's Not Too Late
The crises facing our planet can be overwhelming. But it is not too late for change, says Van Jones, a respected social justice leader. In this inspiring video, he shares that change begins with a worldview that says we’re not going to leave anyone behind.
- Video Shorts
- 00:01:18
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Swami Beyondananda One Minute Shift | The Upwising Begins
In this entertaining one-minute animation, you'll learn from an enlightening Master how to regrow the garden of our planet from the grassroots up.
- Video Shorts
- 00:01:33
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Essential Shifts Interview: Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill is known for her environmental activism, but she is also a deeply spiritual and reflective being. In this dialogue, she reveals her sense that the most important thing we can do is to hold an image of our world as whole, connected, and complete.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-09-06
- 00:29:18
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"A 35th Anniversary Celebration" with Edgar Mitchell (sample)
Host Belvie Rooks honors IONS Founder and Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell's extraordinary experiences and insightful wisdom. Mitchell has devoted his life to serving the evolution of humankind through a ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-08-23
- 00:05:46
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The Sustainability Movement in Europe
Building a sustainable future? Of course that’s what we all want…but how?
- In the News
- Worldview
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The Evolutionary Imperative for Business
To seize the opportunity to work with rather than against emerging forces of change, a higher level of consciousness is needed.
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Re-writing the Story of Who We Are
The consequences of our 500-year-old model of consumption, profit, and externalized costs in the form of environmental degradation and natural system collapse are mounting. The old story we keep telling ourselves...is evaporating, leaving in its place the frantic question “What comes next?”
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Absent-Minded Science – Part I
We learn from an early age that “to be scientific” means avoiding attributing to nature humanlike tendencies such as mind or purpose. To be “anthropomorphic” in science is a cardinal sin... Science has progressed far by expunging mind from its explanations, and anthropomorphism can indeed be a lazy philosophical position if we simply extend human attributes reflexively (and unreflectively) into the universe around us. But to go further than today’s impasse we need to re-embrace mind and ourselves as an inherent part of nature.
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Morphic Fields and Morphic Resonance
Morphic fields underlie the organization of proteins, cells, crystals, plants, animals, brains, and minds. They help to explain habits, memories, instincts, telepathy, and the sense of direction. They have an inherent memory and imply that many of the so-called laws of nature are more like habits. This is, of course, a controversial hypothesis.
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Dawkins, Darwin, and Other Dogma: How the Tenets of Biology Are Crumbling
For the first time in modern human history, the cycle of knowledge is returning to what we knew in our distant past: we are connected to something deeper. We are not machines. Intelligent information flows through us and communicates with our environment, and this means that human survival is much more likely when we cooperate.
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Ancient Cosmology: A Map of the Future?
Like the mayfly, which lives but one day a year and knows nothing of the seasons, the human being has an average life span that comprises only one-360th of the roughly 24,000-year precessional cycle. And just as the mayfly born on an overcast, windless day has no idea that there is anything as splendid as sunshine or a breeze, so do we, born in an era of materialistic rationality, have little awareness of a golden age or higher states of consciousness – though that is the ancestral message.