This essay explores the “metacrisis” of interconnected challenges, arguing that humanity should shift from “machine thinking” to “living systems thinking.” By embracing adaptability, balance, and interdependence, it outlines how we can reimagine society’s priorities and build systems that sustain life, moving from survival to flourishing within a living planet.
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Modern spirituality should inspire hope and resilience. This essay proposes a spirituality that integrates science, fosters inclusion, and addresses ecological crises. By embracing our interdependence and the sacredness of life, it offers a credible, liberating framework to reconnect with nature and align humanity with a flourishing, sustainable future.
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This essay challenges the dysfunction in today’s economic systems, questioning why essential care work is undervalued while exploitation thrives. It calls for redesigning money and work to reflect humanity’s deeper needs: equity, sustainability, and well-being, fostering a society where value is aligned with care, cooperation, and ecological stewardship.
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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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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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