Posted by Velcrow Ripper on Apr 26, 2012
–by Thich Nhat Hanh
A community of people walking together on a spiritual path has a great deal of strength; its members are able to protect each other, to help each other in every aspect of the practice, and to build the strength of the community. There are many things that are very difficult for us to do on our own, but when we live together as community, they become easy and natural. We do...
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Posted by Gregg Hill on Mar 26, 2012
A review of Sacred Economics Author Charles Eisenstein with Integral New York
In deeply contemplating the ever increasing, ever more complicated and intertwining crises facing the world today, one can find a common thread: the financial system and the human species’ relationship to money. No matter what the problem, if one looks deeply to the root cause, it’s nearly always money. “What...
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Posted by Ian MacKenzie on Mar 1, 2012
Today I’m excited to release “Sacred Economics” a short film dedicated entirely to the work of Charles Eisenstein and his book of the same name.
After watching the film, head immediately over to listen to a livestream Q&A with myself and Charles.
About the film: Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how...
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Posted by Guest Contributor on Feb 23, 2012
By Rebecca Solnit
When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you will quarrel over them, or weep about them, or be torn apart by them — or if all goes well, struggle, learn, and bond more strongly because of, rather than despite, them. The Occupy movement had its glorious honeymoon when old and...
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Posted by Guest Contributor on Feb 21, 2012
THE MISTAKE WE MAKE is thinking the corporations are separate from us. The mistake we make is thinking that corruption is only a political issue. The mistake we make is thinking that by eliminating the system we eliminate the problem. It’s true we live in a world dominated and exploited by the few, and it’s true that the systems we live by no longer support us; but it’s also true that there...
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