Author: Timothy Wilken

In today’s world of increasing immorality in business,  government and on our streets, I think we could benefit from looking back at this article written in 1997. It is, in part, […]

Another speech by wiseman Daniel Quinn. Daniel Quinn In a recent semi-documentary film called Garbage, a toxic waste disposal engineer was asked how we can stop engulfing the world in […]

From the 2001 archives of YES! Magazine.  Guy Dauncey Every morning when we rise, we flick on the lights and various electrical appliances before we drive or cycle off to […]

From the World Game Institute,  a nonprofit global education and research organization founded by Buckminster Fuller in 1972. Medard Gabel Problem: 16 million people dying from starvation and 800 million malnourished […]

Chris Lucas is a researcher working on the philosophy and new sciences of Complexity Theory and Artificial Life. He has been involved full time in this area since 1994, and previously […]

The What the World Wants Project was completed in 1997. It was the work of many people led by social scientist Medard Gabel. Medard Gabel is the Director of World Game […]

One year before his death in 1989, psychiatrist R. D. Laing spoke the following words in response to the question, “How do you feel about the future?” “We have achieved, in the […]

“All forgiveness is self-forgiveness. Your [experience of] the world is the result of your combined state of thought and feeling – [your arena] of consciousness. [Since your experience of the] […]

Ed Brownlee The objection that ethics needs god seems to depend on at least three questions: can altruism evolve?; can ethics be developed without a perfectly ethical model or modeler?; […]