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New paper: Wisdom and Wanting What's Good
A new paper asks how modernity weakened our capacity to want what's good, and how we might revive it.
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Essays, videos and short updates on inner and outer change: ideas for a wiser, kinder world, and news of what we are doing about it.
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Ivan Illich, the philosopher of enough
Dougald Hine and Rufus Pollock on 100 years of Illich and why his ideas feel more prophetic than ever.
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In Tech We Trust
A new essay on the god-like authority of technology in the modern age – and what it means to set a wiser course.
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Developmental Spaces for a Time of Transformation
Introducing the growing field of Developmental Spaces – collective spaces for multi-domain inner development in service of social transformation.
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Iain McGilchrist: “Reality changes with the nature of the attention we pay to it”
An intro to Iain McGilchrist’s game-changing account of the brain’s hemispheres - which transforms understanding of human consciousness.
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Donella Meadows on Leverage Points for Effective Systems Change
Introducing pioneering systems thinker Donella Meadows: where to intervene in a complex system for positive change.
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Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects: A spiral of change for a Great Turning
Joanna Macy’s work empowers us to respond to socio-ecological crises, transfiguring apathy and despair into creative action.
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Open call for submissions: Issue #3, Eternity
We’re gathering voices for the next magazine issue: Eternity
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New paper: Wisdom and Wanting What's Good
A new paper asks how modernity weakened our capacity to want what's good, and how we might revive it.
Rufus Pollock 4 min read
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Second Renaissance Research Call - Where Does the Thinking Go?
Trees of change, forum discussions, and getting Second Renaissance to constantly evolve its vision.
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A Gathering of the Art of the Second Renaissance
Some gatherings are organised around an agenda, others follow the field - Oracular Practice, Rituals, and collective presencing enquired into the themes of Source, Money, Power and Shadows.
Sylvie Barbier 42 min read
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Ivan Illich, the philosopher of enough
Dougald Hine and Rufus Pollock on 100 years of Illich and why his ideas feel more prophetic than ever.
Rufus Pollock 44 min video
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MYTHOS: art & ideas for an emerging world
A New Independent Art & Culture Journal for an Age of Transformation, order yours now!
Sylvie Barbier 3 min read
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