“You are so much like your Aunt Dani.” These words always brought a smile of pride to my face. More so if my mother had a note of disdain in her voice when she said it. Good, I would think, because I want to be nothing like you. Aunt Dani did not live near us. She was nomadic. Letters and postcards were delivered to our mailbox from all sorts of […]
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David Gross | The one-man revolution (the only one that’s coming)
YOU SEE the beauty of my proposal is it needn’t wait on general revolution. I bid you to the one-man revolution — The only revolution that is coming. —Robert Frost from Build Soil TODAY, instead of dredging up something from the archives about historical tax resistance campaigns and movements, I want to spend some time looking at individual tax resistance in service of what Ammon Hennacy called the “one-man*revolution.” Whether Hennacy got the […]
Richard Tarnas | Two suitors — A parable
Imagine, for a moment, that you are the universe. But for the purposes of this thought experiment, let us imagine that you are not the disenchanted mechanistic universe of conventional modern cosmology, but rather a deep-souled, subtly mysterious cosmos of great spiritual beauty and creative intelligence. And imagine that you are being approached by two different epistemologies—two suitors, as it were–who seek to know you. To whom would you open […]
Mac Macartney | The journey, our journey
Day 1 – Friday 2nd January 2009 The car door slammed shut; it seemed very final. Britain was held in a frigid embrace of ice and snow; minus four degrees and going down. Above us reared the ancient folded earthworks of the British Camp, an Iron-Age fortification located towards the southern end of the Malverns, a single spine of hills bordering two counties in the West Midlands. I jerked my […]
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