The Shift is Real
Changing the way we fundamentally perceive and experience reality requires seismic shifts in the collective imagination; the difficulty being that our systems of sense-making are deeply entrenched within us; separating ourselves from them is, by definition, existential. Developing our capacity to hold the fear that comes with this, sitting with it ... See more
Will Bull • Building the Infrastructure of Possibility
predicament effectively forever, but all the while we’ll never agree on exactly what in fact it is or how best to resolve it. Finally, we have to accept that our predicament is a moving target that we are simultaneously causing even as we try to disentangle ourselves from it, and all our attempts to resolve it are irrevocable experiments done in re
... See moreAndrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
•Working on the level of story has two dimensions. First is to disrupt the old, which says, “What you thought was real is just an illusion.” Second is to offer a new [one], which says, “The possible, and the real, are much grander than you knew.” The first, we experience as crisis and breakdown. The second, we experience as miraculous.
John Elkington • Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism
Everything is falling apart, but also, new things are possible. And Octavia said that “[t]here’s nothing new / under the sun, / but there are new suns.” We are in a time of new suns. We’re in a time of new suns. We have no idea what we could be, but everything that we have been is falling apart. So it’s time to change. And we can be mindful about t... See more