Title: The Coronation Author: Charles Eisenstain URL: https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/ Type: Essay Why It’s Important: The author posits that the onset of the global pandemic has created an opportunity for our global culture to leave behind the destructive “story of separation” and replace it with a new “story of interbeing”. Date Published: March 2020 Submitted By: Jonathan…
Title: Humanity at the Tipping Point Author: Michael Meade URL: https://www.mosaicvoices.org/humanity-at-the-tipping-point Type: Essay Why It’s Important: In reflecting on the death of George Floyd the author asserts that we have reached a point where we must replace the common myth of what man is — an “accidental being who enters the world as a blank…
Title: Social tipping points are the only hope for the climate Author: David Roberts URL: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/1/29/21083250/climate-change-social-tipping-points Type: Vox online magazine article Why It’s Important: Will unexpected, rapid changes in coming decades be good or bad, positive or negative? That depends on millions of individual choices made in the interim. Some of those choices, if they…
Title: God Speaks Author: Meher Baba Type: Book Why It’s Important: A narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” Date Published: 1955, 1973 ISBN: 0062316095 Submitted By: Jonathan May Excerpt: “Homo sapiens rules…
Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Author: Yuval Noah Harari Type: Book Why It’s Important: A narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” Date Published: February 2015 ISBN: 0062316095 Submitted By: Jonathan…
