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 […]
Continue readingForgiving Myself
“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] […]
Continue readingDoes Ethics Require a Belief in God?
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?; […]
Continue readingHas There Ever Been a Paradigm Shift?
Arthur Young (1905 – 1995), inventor of the Bell Helicopter, cosmologist, philosopher and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning, addressed issues in physics, mathematics, consciousness and evolution. […]
Continue readingHumans are Generalists aboard Spaceship Earth
R. Buckminster Fuller I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuities. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant […]
Continue readingDeclaration of INTERdependence
Timothy Wilken Stop reading! Take a few moment to examine the contents of your pockets or purse …… Can you find any item there, that you obtained without the help […]
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God Bless Humanity!
Statue of Liberty Centennial Fireworks, July 4th, 1986. Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad […]
Continue readingEvolutionary Economics: Metaphor or Unifying Paradigm?
Peter A. Corning, Ph.D. To our preliterate ancestors, untutored in academic economics but well-attuned to the vicissitudes of living in the late Pleistocene, the basic problem that they confronted—along with […]
Continue readingListening and Simplicity
This morning, we feature two essays from the current issue of ORION People & Nature. They were written in response to these questions posed by the editor: “What does the World […]
Continue readingThe Moral Law of the Unified Science
Timothy Wilken Edward Haskell is one of the least known of the synergic scientists whose ideas and works are presented throughout the UnCommon Sense—Library. Haskell made several unique contributions to […]
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