Breaking Out of Consensus Trance
New Thinking Allowed

Breaking Out of Consensus Trance– New Thinking Allowed At a deep level we are all to some extent or another in a Consensus Trance, believing that we are separate, disconnected from Nature, and alone. I call this the “Separation Hypothesis.” The following two koans are part of a body of Zen practice designed to shake […]

Collective Blindness, Risk, Resilience, Emergence

We live in an age of cascading risks which portend societies’ collapse.  In this Evolutionary Conversation we will discuss some root causes of our inability or unwillingness to discern and deal with risk, even when it is palpable, and we will explore opportunities for community and national transcendence and transformation. We will use our indifference […]

Summary of February 25 Evolutionary Conversation — Discovering Your Inner Power, Part I

Leveling the Playing Field with the Wireless Juggernaut is a part of a larger response to the rapid deterioration of values essential to our collective survival—specifically, wisdom, caring, kindness, integrity, and intimacy and dialogue with Nature. As David Attenborough documents, we have already crossed seven critical planetary boundaries. There is considerable evidence that we — our movement and our […]

Leveling the Playing Field with the Wireless Juggernaut—Essential Skills, Tools, and Metrics to Support a Strategic Shift—February 12, 2024

Julian’s Presentation Essential Points 3 Central Ideas of Today’s Evolutionary Conversation:  Present Assessment of the Wireless Juggernaut Struggle and Battleground Message: Practical Hope: Leveling the Playing Field Case Examples— Integral Resilience model is making a quiet difference—not splashy, but critical in: Today’s Evolutionary Conversation: Goals: Take away: Self-assessment—Art of War: Sun Tzu: Know Yourself/Know the […]