Educating for Thrivability
A human requires less than 100 watts of energy per day to survive; that represents about 2000 calories of food, according to renowned theoretical physicist and president of the prestigious…
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A Spirit of Resilience
Embedded within the challenges of our times are crisis and opportunities—galore. It strikes me that the spirit of the innate wild resiliency within us is to focus on and to…
Forbidden Knowledge and the Aspen-Body
Western man is trained to see himself as an individual; his manhood is contingent upon an ability to make his way in the world. A stiff upper lip, a chest…
Resiliency Dancing: Play for Your Life!
“I don’t know how to play,” the man said to me. The statement carried a certain intimacy simply because the man speaking is one of my brothers.Boy in Fountain
Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s admonition to, “Follow your bliss,” would have been heard as a promotion of hedonism in our fundamentalist childhood home.
A River of Life
There is a River of Life arising out of the Deep Silence that gives birth too to Deep Time. We ourselves are born out of this Ground of our Being…
Two Wolves in my Heart
There is certainly no shortage of causes for sleepless nights in today’s world; and no shortage of reasons for developing our own hardiness of spirit and of vision either. And…
Lao Tzu on Wild Resiliency & Domestication
I recently heard a young friend say, “I hate going to work. I don’t do anything there a monkey couldn’t do and they treat me like that too….” On the…