A talk which I gave at the fourth Cosmology of Love conference at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco on April 14, 2012.

The Ecology of Justice: Transforming the victim/perpetrator paradigm

ABSTRACT:
The cosmos is profoundly and fundamentally relational and the beauty of justice can perhaps be described in the symmetry of ( Read more... )

**Note that this journal is in transition. Stay tuned for a new blog at  Lunapoiesis coming in September 2012!**

I would like to present an essay I wrote, setting forth Joanna Macy's concept of  "The Great Turning," which refers to the conscious, human choice of turning away from destructive empire and life-negating ways of being, towards Earth ( Read more... )

"This is what is the matter with us: we are bleeding at the roots because we are cut off from the earth and sun and stars. Love has become a grinning mockery because, poor blossom, we plucked it from its stem on the Tree of Life and expected it to keep on blooming in our civilized vase on the table."
 --D.H. Lawrence

"If only there were evil people somewhere else insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were simply necessary to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?"
--Alexander Sozhenitsyn

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If one had to name one quality as the genius of the patriarchy, it would be compartmentalization, the capacity for institutionalizing disconnection. Intellect severed from emotion. Thought separated from action. Science split from art. The earth itself divided; national borders. Human beings categorized by sex, age, race, ethnicity, sexual ( Read more... )

with deepest Love and affection to the Neptune Society....

~~ This Being Human is the prostration of Desire ~~

Chickpea to Cook

A chickpea in a pot leaps from the flame,
out from the boiling water,
Crying, "Why do you set fire to me?
You chose me, bought me, brought me home for this?"
The cook hits it with her spoon into the pot.
"No! Boil nicely, don't ( Read more... )

One night ( Read more... )

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
 --Maya Angelou

(thanks, Preston :)

"It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world"
 --Oscar Wilde