The Power of Community
The Power of Community is a zine by Sarah van Gelder, lifelong activist, writer, and founding editor of YES! Magazine, for anyone who wants to nurture belonging and shared power toward the beloved community envisioned by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The zine addresses a country in trouble, recognizing that stocking up on food and […]
Falling Upward
Falling Upward by Richard Rohr, revised and updated, helps readers come to terms with the two halves of life, teaching that we can’t understand the meaning of “up” until we have fallen “down.” Rohr proposes that the second half of life is not primarily chronological but a shift in spiritual maturity found “when we begin […]
The Holy Journey
The Holy Journey is a four-part series led by Caroline Myss and Robert Ohotto taking participants on an archetypal journey of inner and outer transformation, focusing on perennial themes for springtime including Spring Equinox, Lent, Ramadan, Passover, and Eastertime. The Holy Journey is a personal transformation you are called to make to awaken a deeper […]
In Awe of Being Human: A Doctor’s Stories from the Edge of Life and Death
In Awe of Being Human by Betsy MacGregor is a physician’s reflection on living, healing, and dying set amidst the challenging world of hospitals and hospices, the medical professionals who work in them, and the ever-present mystery of life and death. Filled with deeply moving tales of the children and adults who have been the […]
Fatima the Spinner and the Tent
A young woman named Fatima experiences a life beset by one disaster after another—shipwreck, slavery, and repeated loss of everything she has built. Each catastrophe forces her to learn new skills and begin again in unfamiliar circumstances. Finally, she realizes that what seemed to be disasters were really essential steps toward her eventual fulfillment, as […]
Choosing Earth
Choosing Earth by Duane Elgin draws our vision into and then beyond the tragedies of our own making—climate change, resource exhaustion, social injustices, and rising authoritarianism—presenting collapse as an integral part of our rite of passage if humanity is to grow into a conscious relationship with life. Inviting us into a “wide, deep, and long” […]
Initiation into a Living Planet
In this in-depth essay, Charles Eisenstein asks us not to get too caught up in the scientific definition of life, but instead to feel into the truth that the planet is a living system and to order our priorities accordingly. The essay explores our relationship to climate change through this lens, inviting readers to move […]
AfterNow
AfterNow: When We Cannot See the Future, Where Do We Begin by Bob Stilger is an invitation to create the lives and communities we want—now. The book begins with Stilger’s personal experiences working alongside people and communities in Japan for six years following the devastating March 11, 2011 Triple Disasters—earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear explosions—that left […]
Rough Initiations
“Rough Initiations” by Francis Weller explores how traumatic experiences in modern life—cancer, war, rape, childhood neglect—mirror the structure of traditional indigenous initiations but occur without the sacred container of community and ritual. Weller reveals that both genuine initiation and trauma share key characteristics: they usher individuals into an alternate reality outside consensus, radically alter the […]
The Laszlo Institute
The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research fosters open transdisciplinary inquiry into current science-based conceptions of the human being and the world. The Institute brings together open-minded scientists and lay people from all parts of the world to develop emerging ideas and communicate them to people in their particular fields as well as to society […]
The Club of Budapest
The Club of Budapest, established in 1993 by systems philosopher Ervin Laszlo, is an informal international association of eminent individuals dedicated to facilitating a “global shift” toward a more peaceful, equitable, and sustainable world. The Club’s mission is to be a catalyst for transformation through promoting the emergence of planetary consciousness and interconnecting generations and […]
The Story of Jumping Mouse
A mouse lives in a burrow with his family, but is not satisfied with his life. He yearns to know the meaning of life beyond his burrow, and so embarks on a journey to the far-off Sacred Mountains, where he believes he will find his answer. On his journey, Jumping Mouse encounters animals who offer […]
Yemaya
The story of Yemaya begins with the supreme creator, Olodumare, who tasked her with creating the world’s oceans. Yemaya poured her essence and energy into the waters, giving birth to countless sea creatures and shaping the shores. As the goddess of the ocean, Yemaya has many facets to her personality. She can be nurturing and […]
Inanna
In the ancient Sumerian city of Uruk lived Inanna, goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war, and political power—captivating and formidable, worshipped by all who knew her name. Yet even one so powerful felt called to journey where she had never been: to the Underworld, realm of darkness ruled by her sister Ereshkigal. Before descending, Inanna […]
Wonderful Life
Stephen Jay Gould, one of the original proponents of punctuated equilibrium theory, explores the remarkable fossils of the Burgess Shale—a small limestone quarry high in the Canadian Rockies formed 530 million years ago that preserves the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived in what he calls “a forgotten corner of […]
The Purpose of Capital
The Purpose of Capital: Elements of Impact, Financial Flows and Natural Being by Jed Emerson is a truly unique exploration of how investors may act with deeper consideration of the meaning of money, connecting how we think about finance with how we think about our lives, world, and ultimate personal purpose and impact. Having produced […]