Progress has long been seen as a linear road, but this metaphor fails to reflect the complexity of life. Drawing on insights from a u3a group, we propose the watershed as a richer symbol—a living system that gathers, integrates, and sustains, offering a new vision for humanity’s journey.
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This retelling of the nativity story reframes it as a call for humanity’s renewal. Drawing on themes of interconnectedness, it explores resetting relationships—with each other, the ultimate reality, and nature—through a non-dual lens. The Christmas story becomes an enduring invitation to embrace compassion, responsibility, and hope in the face of modern challenges.
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Humanity’s impact on Earth has been profound. In just 250 years of industrial civilization—a mere blink in geological time—we’ve transformed the planet, disrupting systems that evolved over billions of years. This post explores how we arrived here and what we can learn to course-correct. Drawing insights from Sir Geoffrey Vickers, Sean B. Carroll’s The Serengeti Rules, and Iain McGilchrist, it proposes new ways of thinking that align human systems with nature’s principles of balance, feedback, and adaptability.
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The concept of human freedom isn’t as straightforward as it might seem. This blog post investigates some historical, philosophical, and cultural perspectives to shed light on what freedom means—and what it doesn’t mean.
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We often hear that science deals with what is objective—facts, measurements, and what can be proven. On the other hand, personal insights are often seen as subjective, and for some, this automatically makes them less valuable or “unreliable.” But what if that isn’t the case? What if both the objective and subjective aspects of our experience are two sides of the same coin?
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