For many of us the idea of the ‘bigger picture’ is just a luxury we cannot afford to think about. This is often because we have enough things going on in our daily lives to occupy us – we don’t have the luxury of time to sit back and wonder about the larger significance of [...]
As a civilization we are in the throes of living out an “endgame.” This is not the endgame of our species or any similar dire situation - but the endgame of an era. For many of us living in the developed nations, we are witnessing the endgame of the Second Industrial Revolution. Yet overall, this [...]
It’s coming around again, as such cycles always do. For a number of years I have been talking (amongst other people) about the new consciousness emerging – or rather unfolding – over these years. However, the focus so far has been largely upon the consequences of this new ‘energy consciousness’ rather than on the qualities [...]
We are no longer in the ‘waiting room’ period, wondering when things are going to start changing. Every part of our lives is already in flux, and always has been. It is erroneous to think of human life as being static – it never has been. Life often appears more static at times when there [...]
As humanity enters a time of social and cultural change, of altered perceptions and challenges to our worldview, we are almost certainly going to be coerced into altered modes of consciousness. In other words, in order to re-adapt and to survive the breakdowns of the old mind/old energy our collective worldview will need to shift [...]
Recent decades have seen a great rise in ecological awareness and the perspective of living systems. Many of us are now relating on a personal and conscious level to the interconnectedness and interaction between humans, nature, and environment. However, this new paradigm of thought should not be restricted only to a material level of connectivity [...]
Ritual is important, yet often it is least beneficial to those people who are ritualistically-minded and inclined to habit. The word ‘tradition’ is now applied to many socially embedded religious and ‘spiritual’ practices that have become engrained within our cultures. Yet in many instances it is possible to replace the notion of ‘tradition’ with ‘repetition’. [...]
Much of what contemporary societies take to be ‘spirituality’ - rituals, talismans, practices, etc – have either been imported from elsewhere, appropriated from earlier forms, or become atrophied, frozen into symbol and peddled as emotional stimuli. Does this sound harsh? Well, what is often the case is that many once-legitimate spiritual practices have lost their [...]
Our species – homo sapiens sapiens - has been on a historically long evolutionary journey prior to arriving at the point where we now find ourselves. We have finally arrived at a world that is complex and interdependent; thus, making the right type of choices is hard but entirely critical. Whereas previously we perhaps had the ‘luxury’ [...]
‘It is no longer the time to be better, it is the time to be otherwise’ Satprem For thousands of years humanity has been conquerors. We never thought about opening our borders to entire nations; sharing resources; and grouping together as larger bodies of nations. We built fortresses, great walls, and opened our doors only [...]
To ‘break the spell’ of our many layers of social conditioning is not as difficult as it sounds. The first step is one of awareness; that is, to acknowledge within ourselves that our personas are part social-construct put together from a whole range of external impacts that we receive as part of growing up. In [...]
For many people modern life can be said to have become an unbalanced distraction; or rather, the reality of our daily lives is a constant ‘attention distracter’. We suffer not from an attention deficit but from ‘attention overload’. This often then results in endless instances of misplaced attention. Too many of our social events, devices, [...]
