Author: Timothy Wilken

This morning’s essay is reposted from The Yellow Times. Humans have always had three choices. They can act adverarily, neutrally or synergically. Throughout history all governments have been dominated by adversary-neutral processes. John […]

Joël de Rosnay The atom, the molecule, the cell, the organism, and society fit one within the other like a series of Russian dolls. The largest of these dolls is […]

This morning we feature an introduction to an important book published in 1975. This book is also from our Understanding in Time library. Joël de Rosnay Microscope, telescope: these words evoke the […]

This morning we complete our twenty-one part series on the global brain from an important book by Howard Bloom. See: 1) Biology, Evolution and the Global Brain, 2) Creative Nets […]

This morning we feature part twenty of our series on the global brain from an important book by Howard Bloom. See: 1) Biology, Evolution and the Global Brain, 2) Creative Nets […]

Reader Steve Coffman forwards this excerpt from a highly recommended new book by Rush W. Dozier, Jr. In Why We Hate: Understanding, Curbing, and Eliminating Hate in Ourselves and Our […]

Reposted from the archives of the Environmental Studies Program at UCSB. Ralph Metzner Several different diagnostic metaphors have been proposed to explain the ecologically disastrous split– the pathological alienation– between human […]

This morning we feature part nineteen of our series on the global brain from an important book by Howard Bloom. See: 1) Biology, Evolution and the Global Brain, 2) Creative Nets […]

This morning we feature part eighteen of our series on the global brain from an important book by Howard Bloom. See: 1) Biology, Evolution and the Global Brain, 2) Creative Nets […]