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Michael Meade | Why the world doesn’t end
Whenever the end seems near, the beginning is also close at hand. The mystics know that, but so do the nuclear physicists. Given the radical changes affecting both culture and nature in contemporary life, it is easy to understand how fears of cataclysm and images of apocalyptic nightmares might intensify. It is not simply that the air has become dangerously polluted and overheated or that the political atmosphere is increasingly […]
Thanissara | Time to awaken and engage
The Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change summarizes our situation: Today we live in a time of great crisis, confronted by the gravest challenge that humanity has ever faced: the ecological consequences of our own collective karma. The scientific consensus is overwhelming: human activity is triggering environmental breakdown on a planetary scale. Global warming, in particular, is happening much faster than previously predicted…Eminent biologists and U.N. reports concur that ‘business-as-usual’ will […]
The Motherland | Myself: Reflections on 17 months in East Africa
By Audrey Addison Williams In January 2011 I paused at the top of the metal staircase and looked out over Entebbe International Airport. Standing just beyond the door of the aircraft, I stretched out my arms and thanked God for allowing me to make it to the Motherland. I had come home to my beloved Africa-—a place I had never visited. Nine months earlier I had written my first book, […]
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