Le Kleine Review
Showcasing Positive Non-Fiction That Stems The Tide Of Gloom…
Supporting multi-dimensional perspectives and mental flexibility
Time for us to realise that we are actually a lot closer, and even in the midst of, “the” paradigm shift.
The “positive future” is upon us! …if we so choose, that is…
For to transform manifestation into reality, we must disengage from the stories, systems, and old attachments that do no longer serve us well.
Instead, we must focus our attention on what we do wish to see and feel and make happen in ourselves, the community around us and the world at large.
If you are wondering how on Earth you can do that – take a look at the ever-growing patchwork of reality data on this page.
Humanity et al are already busy bridging the threshold to awesomeness in all kinds of ways.
There are categories to stretch the full spectrum of human mentation, emotion, and action.
Everything is somehow connected with the novel.
Relax those blinkers and open up to the multi-dimensional reality that is humanity and the universe.
Le Kleine Review – Project Categories
SoSoS stands for Science of Spirituality of Science. The Science of the Spirit is the Science of our Consciousness, and our conscience – an important detail for our continued evolution.
Fusing Science and Spirituality is essential to alleviate the current “meaning crisis” and cultivate our future thriving as one People – you know, the wisdom of the East with the knowledge of the West with the lived experience of the Indigenous folks – going forward hand in hand, heart to heart, mind within mind.
Thought & Action Leaders Today
We need leaders – not rulers! Fortunately there are many good people out there doing the important paradigm shifting work of leading the world of thoughts, ideas, and implementation.
So many people before us, many of them thought and action leaders of their times, many far ahead of their – even our – times. Find out about and give credit to some of the often obscure individuals who brought us “here”.
The currently dominating economic system is flawed in many ways – but lo and behold, the science is in and there are loads of alternatives and good ideas just waiting to be implemented.
Some of the cool stuff our hard-working STEM peops are nutting out in their offices, labs, and workshops.
We are all artists in life, creating our own reality 24 hours per day…
Philosophy has a hard time in the ‘Age of Efficiency’ but we need her so let’s pay Sophia some well-deserved respect and attention <3
Stories are an ancient technology, possibly the most important and intimate tool we use to make sense of (or not) and navigate our world.
Narrative Technology
The story of how Buffalo, Eage, coyote and Bear began to help the spirit keepers
From The Medicine Wheel Earth Astrology by Sun Bear and Wabun, pp 129-131
‘Well, the brown bear had always been chief of the animals, because he was strong but gentle, he thought long, and he had always made wise decisions, and he wanted to keep serving his brothers and sisters. But the buffalo challenged him because of his generosity, purity, and selflessness. The eagle challenged the bear because he could fly higher, see clearer, and act wiser than anyone else. The coyote challenged the bear because of his cunning, his resourcefulness, and his ability to learn and grow.
The bear accepted and respected their challenges, and it was time for the other animals to have their turn and say their piece in relation to who should be chief. The talking stick went around once, and it was clear that they were evenly divided between who should be their ruler. The animals had noticed that the winds were blowing from all directions during the circle, but they were so caught up in what they were doing, that they did not stop to think what the winds were trying to tell them. They were going to do a second round of the talking stick and were sitting in silent preparation, when one of the spirit teachers, the Spirit Keeper of the West, blew in with a strong west wind.
“I am Mudjekeewis, the Spirit Keeper of the West. Where I walk the West Wind follows. Long ago, before any of you were born, it was decided that I would be the chief of the keepers of the directions. Like you, Eagle, Bear, Buffalo, and Coyote, all four of us who now keep the directions were strong. We were children of the same mother, and we all had her strength and wisdom plus the separate wisdom of each of our fathers. But rather than fight about who was the strongest and thus break the law of unity, we decided with our mother’s help to each take responsibility for one quarter of the Medicine Wheel so we could each use our separate strengths in the best possible way. By doing this we made the wheel strong in all directions, and we made ourselves stronger by having a definite direction for our strength to take.
I was chosen by One Greater to be the chief because I always think before I act, so my strength is tempered by introspection. I am sent now by One Greater to intervene in this council. It is clear by listening to you speak that it would take many years to reach consensus. During this time the law of unity among the animals would be broken as the followers of one contender fought against the followers of another. This would cause unnecessary harm to all of you, and to your other relations on the earth. The Great Spirit does not want this to happen. So each of you four will now merge your power with the power of one of the directions. In this way your strengths, too, will help to make the wheel strong, and each of you will have a specific direction that you follow. Bear, you will merge with me, with the West, because, like me, you are strong and you think long before you speak. You will remain as the chief of animal council as I am chief of the council of the winds.
Buffalo, you will merge with the power of Waboose, of the North, sharing the qualities of renewal and of purity. Eagle, you will merge with the power of the East, the power of Wabun (a she!), bringing awakening, wisdom, and illumination with your clear vision. Coyote, you will merge with the power of the South, bringing growth and trust through your ability to teach and survive.
So my honoured friends, be happy now with the gifts of power the Great Spirit has given to each of you. Each of you will serve best in the direction that you have been given, and you can all now contribute to the harmony of the creation. It is good.’
Excerpt from: Voices of the First Day by Robert Lawlor - Regarding Seeds
Present day Western civilisation and the traditional Aboriginal cultures are as Fruit to Seed. All life begins and ends with a Seed.
The Seed is the plan. Within lies the ancestral dreaming of a species – a coded language guiding the unfolding of phases, the emergence of characteristics.
The Seed is permeated with and surrounded by a field, a preformative entelechy, drawing all growth towards a prescribed form and destiny. Within the dreaming of the Seed pulses the entire drama of genesis.
The Seed disembodies itself to objectify its internal forms and focus.
Germination is an explosion – the unified body of the Seed vanishes into the duality of root and stem.
The Root, a geotropic plunge into the dark dream of the Earth’s night – the power to transmute substance from the Unborn, the Kingdom of the mineral, and bond it to the dance of the living.
The Stem, branches and leaves, a thirsty reaching – absorbing the subtle breath and blood, life and light, from the celestial realms, the Kingdom of the Ancestors and of the Dead.
From the realms beyond, of the Unborn and the Dead, the plant gathers its vital force.
The Flower, the sacred nexus of sexuality – here the two oppositional yearning for height and depth meet and merge. In the fragile magnetism of the flower, the dream of union is born in the image of a new seed.
The Flower – that which flows – and flowing, the energies absorbed from Earth and Sky pour forth like virgin blood in ritual deflowering.
The Flower soon dies, but the new seed within has absorbed the knowledge and experience of the past cycle and rests, dormant.
Dormancy – the death that is not death, but the initiatory death. The sleeping seed is mummified, sealed in its shell, its power of regeneration a living immortality.
The Fruit emerges, first hard and bitter, unaware it is impregnated with a new Seed.
Mindless of the nourising Earth below, coloured with self-importance, the Fruit swells in the conviction that it is the goal of the cycle.
Tenuously dangling in air, its taste, texture, smell, colour and form are the final externalisation of all the latent, innate powers of the Seed.
The Seed needs the fruit to complete and renew the cycle. The plant needs the fruit as human life needs art and pleasure, science and power, opulence, refinement and decadence.
The Fruit is the moment of individualisation. Alone, it hangs between Heaven and Earth, between detachment and debauchery, self-actualisation and self-destruction.
The Fruit sees from above the entire struggle of growth – the limit of the branches’ reach, the trembling fragility of the proliferating leaves, the withering of the flower of love.
The Fruit holds the perspective of joyous, amoral ambivalence, the end is certainly near yet forever should be denied.
The Fruit’s embodiment drains the entire plant of its life force and triggers the decline and end of the cycle. Its ultimate role is to carry the seed safely to Earth, and to manure the ground for the next germination.
Manuring has its dangers. The Seed may be smothered in the lingering, fermented decomposition of the Fruit.
Nothing regenerates from the Fruit itself but, digested by the Earth, the Fruit is the womb of the new Seed.
Blackout by Mark Elsberg
Highly recommended reading – Blackout reads like a case study to what happens when electricity gets turned off…
From the Blackout Wikipedia page:
The novel starts with a collapse of electrical grids across Europe, plunging the population into darkness and disaster. The prolonged electricity cut causes major problems: no more petrol, no telephone, no food in supermarkets, no cash machines working, nuclear disasters, etc. A former computer hacker and IT professional tries to find out the root cause for this. While doing so he himself becomes a hunted person as officials find suspicious e-mails sent from his laptop and think that he is involved.
Excerpt from: Voices of the First Day by Robert Lawlor
Present day Western civilisation and the traditional Aboriginal cultures are as Fruit to Seed. All life begins and ends with a Seed.
The Seed is the plan. Within lies the ancestral dreaming of a species – a coded language guiding the unfolding of phases, the emergence of characteristics.
The Seed is permeated with and surrounded by a field, a preformative entelechy, drawing all growth towards a prescribed form and destiny. Within the dreaming of the Seed pulses the entire drama of genesis.
The Seed disembodies itself to objectify its internal forms and focus.
Germination is an explosion – the unified body of the Seed vanishes into the duality of root and stem.
The Root, a geotropic plunge into the dark dream of the Earth’s night – the power to transmute substance from the Unborn, the Kingdom of the mineral, and bond it to the dance of the living.
The Stem, branches and leaves, a thirsty reaching – absorbing the subtle breath and blood, life and light, from the celestial realms, the Kingdom of the Ancestors and of the Dead.
From the realms beyond, of the Unborn and the Dead, the plant gathers its vital force.
The Flower, the sacred nexus of sexuality – here the two oppositional yearning for height and depth meet and merge. In the fragile magnetism of the flower, the dream of union is born in the image of a new seed.
The Flower – that which flows – and flowing, the energies absorbed from Earth and Sky pour forth like virgin blood in ritual deflowering.
The Flower soon dies, but the new seed within has absorbed the knowledge and experience of the past cycle and rests, dormant.
Dormancy – the death that is not death, but the initiatory death. The sleeping seed is mummified, sealed in its shell, its power of regeneration a living immortality.
The Fruit emerges, first hard and bitter, unaware it is impregnated with a new Seed.
Mindless of the nourising Earth below, coloured with self-importance, the Fruit swells in the conviction that it is the goal of the cycle.
Tenuously dangling in air, its taste, texture, smell, colour and form are the final externalisation of all the latent, innate powers of the Seed.
The Seed needs the fruit to complete and renew the cycle. The plant needs the fruit as human life needs art and pleasure, science and power, opulence, refinement and decadence.
The Fruit is the moment of individualisation. Alone, it hangs between Heaven and Earth, between detachment and debauchery, self-actualisation and self-destruction.
The Fruit sees from above the entire struggle of growth – the limit of the branches’ reach, the trembling fragility of the proliferating leaves, the withering of the flower of love.
The Fruit holds the perspective of joyous, amoral ambivalence, the end is certainly near yet forever should be denied.
The Fruit’s embodiment drains the entire plant of its life force and triggers the decline and end of the cycle. Its ultimate role is to carry the seed safely to Earth, and to manure the ground for the next germination.
Manuring has its dangers. The Seed may be smothered in the lingering, fermented decomposition of the Fruit.
Nothing regenerates from the Fruit itself but, digested by the Earth, the Fruit is the womb of the new Seed.
NEco – Neo Economy
Share Economy - Examples
Some examples of the components of the already existing Share Economy are:
Local Exchange Trading Systems (LETS)
LETS:
Locally initiated, democratically run, not-for-profit, alternative & complementary currencies.
LETS can monitor a micro-economy.
At this point a big shoutout to my friend Simon who has been a long-serving member of LETS Brisbane.
Tool Libraries
Why buy when you can borrow?
Tool libraries have been around for years. They are like book libraries, except that you can borrow all kinds of things you don’t really need to own, but do need or want to use every now and then. Like tents, cordless drills, lawn mowers, and kayaks. Membership is usually less that it costs you to buy the tool or euqipment you need.
A big shoutout to Degrowth researcher and advocate Sabrina Chakori who is doing some amazing work at the Brisbane Tool Library and making a huge impression all around the world speaking at events about her PhD research into Zero Packaging Food Systems. Read more about Sabrina’s story.
Hacker Spaces:
Hackerspaces are community-run, usually “not for profit” workspaces where people with common interests meet, work, socialise, learn from each other, and collaborate on projects. Commonly hacker spaces accommodate various interest groups, such as wood/metal working, information and other technologies, science, and crafts such as sewing. Similar also to men’s sheds.
Time banks
Read more on the idea of using time as a currency.
Open Access Economy
Economy for the Common Good (ECG)
*2010 in Austria, Europe
The Economy for the Common Good is an ethical economic model where cooperation and the wellbeing of people and the environment become the ultimate goals of business.
Supported by over 2000 businesses in several European countries including Austria, Germany, and Spain.
Check out more info on the amazingly simple yet effective idea of Common Good Balance Sheets for organisations of all shapes and sizes.
“Changing the economy democratically –
a different economy is possible.”
Universal Basic Income (UBI)
The UBI idea has been around for ages. What is it? It’s a basic, unconditional living wage for each and every human being existing in a given region/country.
UBI may be one solution to cushion the impact of technological unemployment, and give people some breathing space to figure out their next moves.
and there is now quite a bit of research around it – some of the latest from Finland. A great place to start learning about it is on the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) website. Here an interesting article from an independent, politically unaffiliated, Norwegian online newspaper – Norway has one of the – if not THE – best Social Security Systems in the world.
Read about the US Democrats Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang who is running on the UBI platform, adding some welcome fresh debate to the yanks’ pollie ranks, and listen to him talk a lot of sense on the Joe Rogan Experience.
There are also lots of documentaries available on YouTube.
The next BIEN conference will be held in Brisbane, Australia, in September 2020. Woohoo! The conference theme sums up perfectly why the UBI idea is so compelling: Basic income, the ecological crisis and a new age of automation.
Some of the criticism of UBI is well summed-up by digital economics professor and bestselling writer Douglas Rushkoff of the Team Human podcast:
“Universal basic income is a band-aid solution that will not solve wealth inequality.”
“Funneling money to the 99% perpetuates their roles as consumers, pumping money straight back up to the 1% at the top of the pyramid.”
Rushkoff suggests universal basic assets instead, so that the people at the bottom of the pyramid can own some means of production and participate in the profits of mega-rich companies.
I respect Douglas Rushkoff a lot so his opinion on this is valuable IMO – even though I find that the future plight of the human worker bee class is not considered enough by him and others like him. We can’t all become super creatives, digital nomads, entrepreneurs and academics.
As stated above, I see UBI as an interim solution to cushion the impact of technological unemployment, and give the global human society and culture some breathing space to figure out our next moves.
Jeremy Rifkin - NEco (Neo Economy), Thought Leader Today
Jeremy Rifkin – has been at the forefront of the NEco with his visionary yet practical books such as:
The 3rd Industrial Revolution, The Empathic Civilisation, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, The Green New Deal.
Wisdom Lovers
Rumi - Poet
I had a hard time fitting Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi into a category. After all, he was many things: a mover and shaker of past – and present – times, a philospher, mystic and lover of humanity who was deeply interested in exporing spirituality and consciousness, and an adept at using Narrative Technology in his incredibly beautiful, truth-telling, to-this-day popular poetry…
So for now he became a wisdom lover. Maybe he will move around the categories and spend some time here, some time there…
DON’T GO BACK TO SLEEP
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
RUMI (adapted from Quatrain #91)
Armin Risi - Wisdom Lover, Author, Lecturer
Armin Risi has been a radical rethinker of new ways and new world views (and that’s radical in its ur-form of meaning stemming from the Latin radix = root; i.e. forming the root) since he was a teenager. He is such an authentic dude and down-to-Earth speaker that even lofty topics such as reincarnation, ascension, and the multi-dimensionality of our very own home-cosmos become readily digestible.
He is Swiss and I love his accent, most of his books are in German but there is one available in English that is certainly a hot tip (it’s on my to-read-list) – TranscEnding the Global Power Game. Yes – Armin’s spiritual research and work has a practical approach, too. This man does not shy away from the elephants in the room aka the rotten state of the powers that be!
Good on you, Armin, keep up The Great Work! Weiter so!
Vera F. Birkenbihl
Vera F. Birkenbihl (1946-2011) was a German philosopher, coach, educator. A prolific powerhouse of a woman, I was highly excited to make her acquaintance just last year, just after lamenting the absence of quality female philosphers in this world!
Unfortunately most of her work is, to date, only available in German, but keep your eyes peeled or maybe learn German with her “brain-friendly” learning techniques that are just now beginning to gain traction. She herself spoke several languages, and began learning many more to research what makes learning a language easy and fun, amongst these were Mandarin, Japanese, Turkish, and Arabic.
Vera wrote early books on IT and programming, and lectured about life skills, leadership, futurism, and alternative ways of learning, the importance of humor in our lives, pragmatic esoterica, differences between women and men, memes, mirror neurons, and the media. With such wit and Witz (humour), it is no surprise that she was one of the most in-demand coaches in the German-speaking world.
More about Vera’s language learning method.
This is my favourite lecture of hers – pragmatic esoterica (in German) – the small Path to the big Self – hoping to one day see some English subs on this 🙂
Hard Science & Tech
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Beyond Zero Emissions - Australian Renewable Energy Thinktank, Education & Advocacy
Beyond Zero Emissions turned a simple question – How to power Australia with 100% Renewables? – into an impressive portfolio, all through the work of dedicated volunteers and multi-disciplinary experts.
Check out BZE’s legendary Renewable Energy Plan from the year 2010 and find out how Australia could be powered by a mix of 40% wind, 60% solar thermal, a backup of hydro and biomass, and an upgrade of the transmission grid.
The politicians knew about this for years, and have kept blocking it for being too expensive, instead propping up the fossil fuel industries for their own reasons. Shame!!!
Okay, rant over, obviously this touches me personally as a long-term volunteer for this amazing organisation, and the truth has to come out about these technologies which are legitimate alternatives to burning coal, gas, and nuclear energy.
Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur - STEM
If you are keen for long-form, beautifully rendered, mostly optimistic investigation of the technological, scientific, and sociological possibilities of da future, Isaac Arthur’s YouTube channel is your place to be.
Isaac was born around 1980 to two physicists, home-schooled, a high school dropout, with a degree in physics, an associate degree in biophysics, and a speech impediment.
Past Movers & Shakers
Thought & Action Leaders Today
Beyond Zero Emissions - Australian Renewable Energy Thinktank, Education & Advocacy
Beyond Zero Emissions turned a simple question – How to power Australia with 100% Renewables? – into an impressive portfolio, all through the work of dedicated volunteers and multi-disciplinary experts.
Check out BZE’s legendary Renewable Energy Plan from the year 2010 and find out how Australia could be powered by a mix of 40% wind, 60% solar thermal, a backup of hydro and biomass, and an upgrade of the transmission grid.
The politicians knew about this for years, and have kept blocking it for being too expensive, instead propping up the fossil fuel industries for their own reasons. Shame!!!
Okay, rant over, obviously this touches me personally as a long-term volunteer for this amazing organisation, and the truth has to come out about these technologies which are legitimate alternatives to burning coal, gas, and nuclear energy.
Bjoerk
Bjoerk is a cool chick. Whatever you have heard about her during her long time in the lime light, however much or little you like her eclectic, odd, musical styles – she has a functioning value system and a good dose of conscious objectivity under her belt. And she is from one of the coolest (pun!) places on Earth: Iceland! Definitely someone to be inspired by!
Excerpts from her interview with Time Out:
Do you think that music has increasing power to change attitudes and create communities?
“I started touring young in a punk band in West Berlin before the Wall came down. The band I was in had to save up money for years to be able to buy a really bad secondhand car and drive between squats in Europe, sleeping on people’s floors. I came from that sort of DIY background where every show you think: This is special. For us, it was never about world fame. It was about meeting other like-minded people, travelling the world, having that connection. I still feel the same way.”
“The website said that he had produced the whole song, not co-produced. I’m not gonna get upset every time I see something like that. That’s a waste of energy. It’s hard to know what to do to be a good feminist. Is it to keep moaning? Is it to send the website an email? That feels ridiculous.”
“Utopia” is zooming out as much as possible. The theme is asking how to build a utopia. We all have this dream of what we would like our lives to be. The reality of it is different. Humans are really clumsy but once in a while they get it right. “Utopia” is about that tension, almost in a slapstick way.”
Read this fascinating exchange with Wisdom Lover Tim Morton that resulted in a collaboration between the artist and the philosopher. Tim Morton is featured on this site as a Wisdom Lover.
Drug Positive Podcast
Emanuel Sferios, the host of the Drug Positive Podcast started Dance Safe in the 1990’s. Dance Safe is an independent, peer-based organisation doing pill/drug testing and education for safe partying at raves and festivals. Emanuel and his guests talk about positive effects of using drugs recreationally and advocate for full legalisation of all, hitherto, illegal drugs.
Every episode of this podcast is excellent and worth a listen to expand and educate your understanding of the complexity surrounding recreational drug use!
Love the Dance Safe Logo 🙂
From the Stitcher description:
Drug Positive is the risk reduction and benefit enhancement podcast reducing shame and stigma to save lives and end the drug war.
John Vervaeke & the Meaning Crisis
John Vervaeke is a life-chaging lecturer – please watch and learn from his hundreds of hours of lectures and maybe even find some meaning in all this.
Delvin Solkinson - Visionary Permaculture at CoSM
Delvin Solkinson is an artistically minded, articulate permaculture guru looking after the gardens at CoSM (Chapel of Sacred Mirrors) – the beautiful physical art church manifestation of visionary artists Alex & Allyson Grey.
Delvin also teaches permaculture to others, and he has designed a card deck to help students learn, but also to help us see things from different perspectives.
He also volunteers to bring into life visionary art card decks which double as oracle and tarot card decks and are nothing short of amazing (I received mine in the mail today and am SO loved up)!
Much much love and appreciation to you, Delvin!
Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur - STEM
If you are keen for long-form, beautifully rendered, mostly optimistic investigation of the technological, scientific, and sociological possibilities of da future, Isaac Arthur’s YouTube channel is your place to be.
Isaac was born around 1980 to two physicists, home-schooled, a high school dropout, with a degree in physics, an associate degree in biophysics, and a speech impediment.
Artabana - Independent Community Health Care
Artabana is an independent Private Health Insurance organisation that is completely not-for-profit and run by members. It is most successful in Germany, its birth place.
Artabana in Germany (in German)
Artabana in Switzerland (in German)
Artabana in the Netherlands (in Dutch)
Erowid
Erowid is a non-profit educational & harm-reduction resource with 60 thousand pages of online information about psychoactive drugs, plants, chemicals, as well as activities and technologies that can produce altered states of consciousness such as meditation, lucid dreaming, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and electroceuticals.
This website is definitely the most comprehensive, independent, single archive of information relating to drug law, safety, and usage, as well as all sorts of related topics such as personal experiences, books, art, culture, mind, spirit.
Erowid is member-supported and has been around since 1995, today serving around 15 million visitors each year. Check out some reviews.
The Erowid motto is
“Documenting the Complex Relationship Between Humans and Psychoactives.”
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Dr Richard Mochelle
Check out Dr Richard Mochelle, a local philosopher, researcher, and thinker with a lifelong dedication to ethics and a cosmopolitan (meaning without national borders) future.
Love your work, Richard!
For a Global Resource Trust: Enabling enactment of global responsibility
Dr Richard Mochelle
Abstract
How to meet the Earth Charter’s call to commit to global responsibility and ‘bring forth a sustainable global society’? Were we sufficiently committed we would create and engage in a world constitutional forum to determine responsibility norms and arrangements for a sustainable global society. Given internet technology this now seems practicable. But how could an unprecedented global system practically be trialled and showcased on a global scale without imposing on uncomprehending and conservative majorities? It can be done with integrity. Those committed to global responsibility could reality-test and showcase their co-constituted system model within an exemplar, world public trustee organisation. Enabling this to happen will require a comprehensive resource base – a full suite of Earth resources, land, buildings, equipment, vehicles and tools – with an online information system to optimise self-organising responsiveness. A Global Resource Trust could be established legally as a vehicle to receive resource bequests and donations. However, trusting this Trust to manage the heritage competently and responsibly will require capable, honorary trustees of globally responsible integrity. Clearly, development of a new, global, ethics-oriented education gateway system will be required for trustee qualification, open to all. An unprecedented constitutional learning journey beckons the globally responsible to take the integrity lead.
Biography:
Once an architect, Richard turned to environmental design and futures education, then moral and political philosophy. He completed a PhD in 2001 on global responsibility and world constitutionalism. He has lectured at QUT in ethics and systems design and conducted multidisciplinary, rurban design workshops in carrying capacity-based, regional planning for post-fossil-fuel sustainability. Over 3 decades he has engaged multiple groups, from ages 8 -80, in world futures visioning, and 6 groups in the last decade, in discourse-ethical, world constitutional deliberation, culminating in agreement on a draft meta-constitutional charter – principles and procedures – for engaging people in an online world constitutional forum whose architecture he has been conceiving.
From: http://www.earthlaws.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Mochelle-Richard.docx
Mein Grundeinkommen e.V. - My Universal Basic Income Association
Mein Grundeinkommen was founded in 2014 by a young tech entrepreneur who happened to live off a kind of Universal Basic Income (UBI) created through his passive work income. Michael Bohmeyer realised that it would be neat if everyone had such an income – and so he crowdfunded for three weeks, began raffling out Universal Basic Incomes (limited to 12 months), and founded the not-for-profit Mein Grundeinkommen.
The project has taken off and by now, over 500 people have received a Grundeinkommen, financed by over 170,000 people donating. The documentary Come Come Basic Income has more details.
(Unfortunately most of the information for this is in German.)
Jeremy Rifkin - NEco (Neo Economy), Thought Leader Today
Jeremy Rifkin – has been at the forefront of the NEco with his visionary yet practical books such as:
The 3rd Industrial Revolution, The Empathic Civilisation, The Zero Marginal Cost Society, The Green New Deal.
Economy for the Common Good (ECG)
*2010 in Austria, Europe
The Economy for the Common Good is an ethical economic model where cooperation and the wellbeing of people and the environment become the ultimate goals of business.
Supported by over 2000 businesses in several European countries including Austria, Germany, and Spain.
Check out more info on the amazingly simple yet effective idea of Common Good Balance Sheets for organisations of all shapes and sizes.
“Changing the economy democratically –
a different economy is possible.”
Bruce Pascoe - Dark Emu
Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu is about how things really were in the big beaut southern lands (now called Australia) before Cook, Crown, Commonwealth & Co came to colonise and civilise country and people (almost) to death. Grain, vege, and fish farming and storage, housing (there were many different ways of life, not “just” nomadic hunter gatherers), culture (languages up to 60,000 years old, peace-promoting governance systems not unlike democracy, weaving, needlework,…), and the active shaping of the environment in unison with nature are topics explored so far.
I have taken my time, digesting the book chapter by chapter, and this week – while driving through the smoke haze from all the Australian east coast fires – I coincidentally arrived at the extremely responsible use of fire as a farming and landscaping tool by Aboriginal people in pre-colonial times.
Seems like we have a lot to learn about sustainability, and the sooner we get on it, the better! This book is a great start to begin understanding why things are not in the amazingly beautiful shape they were in when the first explorers and settlers made a home and then a meal of it.
Get on it, and spread the precious seeds of knowledge and age-old wisdom, to change the continuously sad dismissal as primitive of this, our very precious, oldest continuously surviving culture in the world.
Check out this organisation – http://www.firesticks.org.au
Check out some related press case in points:
https://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/05/28/3512963.htm
https://www.abc.net.au/…/traditional-owners…/11700320
And this organisation
The Free World Charter & Colin R Turner
Colin R Turner created the Free World Charter over 10 years ago.
Check out the charter (and sign if you agree!).
Check out the FAQ.
Colin’s book F-Day (Freedom Day) is a fictional account of how the transition to an Open Access Economy (see under NEco) could happen and is an excellent study for anyone who plays with the idea of manifesting the world they want to be in.
CoSM - Chapel of Sacred Mirrors by Alex & Allyson Grey
An absolutely beautiful story, this project of CoSM.
Mission:
The mission of CoSM is to build an enduring sanctuary of visionary art to inspire a global community. The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, CoSM, is supported by charitable donations from the community and sales from our shop. CoSM provides a ceremonial context for fusing artistic and spiritual practices and a pukblic exhibition of the Sacred Mirrors and other works of mystic art.
Hear the whole story!
SoSoS – Science of Spirituality of Science
