Reflections on the Explorer’s Mind
Kokoro for Personal Wisdom
Kokoro (Heart/Mind) is an AI platform designed to tap the collective wisdom of humanity and Nature to support humans in making wiser, more resilient decisions. This presentation on June 21, 2025 was the focus of a World Talent Economic Forum, hosted by Sharif Uddin Ahmed Rana, who at the outset posed these five challenges confronting […]
Challenging the Separation Hypothesis
Time Defeated by Love, Beauty, and Hope by Simon Vouet 1627 Program Outline 1. Introductory Practice — Shikantaza — setting a foundation 2. Stopping Time (in 3 steps): 3. Enjoying the Miracle — Just Click! — a practice to connect Quiet (Unfettered) Mind, Beauty, and Love to your very next moment and enjoy the miracle. 4. […]
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 […]
Julian Gresser at Chaucers Books on “How the Leopard Changed Its Spots
Julian Gresser talks about his book at Chaucer’s Books in Santa Barbara on “How the Leopard Changed Its Spots” 7/30/24. With special guest Craig Lewis, the founder and CEO of The Clean Coalition –https://clean-coalition.org/craig-lewis/
Enhancing Attorney and Law Firm Wellbeing by Mastering Integral Resilience — The Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Conversation with Dr. Joseph Cambray on Emergence from Complexity
In this Evolutionary Conversation former Pacifica University President and CEO, Dr. Joseph Cambray, and Julian Gresser, explore the theory of emergence in helping communities like Santa Barbara foresee, manage, and then thrive when facing complex adaptive challenges. Joseph Cambray Synchronicity—Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected World (2012) Synchronicity and Emergence Altered States, Intelligences, and Oracles: Re-visioning […]