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Covid-19 as a Stepping Stone Towards the Collective Rite of Passage into Adulthood that Humanity has to Undergo

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Tuesday, April 14, 2020, In : Re-embodiments politics

Is COVID-19 a Collective Rite of Passage?

by Erik Assadourian | posted in: Uncategorized | 1

Many transitions in human cultures are marked by rites of passage, such as baptisms, weddings, even funerals. And, during those transitions there is a moment when those involved are neither what they were, nor what they will become. At a wedding, the couple is not yet married, nor are they single. A child going through an adulthood ritual is not yet an adult, but is no longer a child. Even in a funer...

Worldwide Advances on the Ecological Front according to the Wellbeing Economy Alliance

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Sunday, May 13, 2018, In : Re-embodiments politics

Here are a few examples of the many new directions, experiments, and models of the wellbeing economy already happening around the world.

The ability to communicate in real time with everyone empowers millions of people at virtually no cost and makes social organizing easier than ever before. Peer-to-peer networking has become a reality, whether sharing information, data, software, goods, services, car rides, accommodation, lending and/or political strategies.
Renewable energy allows for decentr...

'The Paris Climate-Change Spectacular'

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Monday, July 27, 2015, In : Activism

ETC Group
09 July 2015

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris in December will feature all the tightly choreographed production values of a Hollywood blockbuster. The cast will be huge: presidents and prime ministers at center stage, supported by thousands of extras, including protesters, riot police, and busloads of media. The script may still be under wraps, but the plot has already leaked: This time, in sharp contrast to the failed negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009, the plane...

'Plain Living and High Thinking', Steps Towards An Age of Re-Embodiments

Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on Tuesday, September 9, 2014, In : Re-embodiments politics

Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future is available here.

Foreword to Simple Living in History, by David Shi

The simple life is almost as hard to define as it is to live. It has also been with us for thousands of years. Simplicity is an ancient and universal ideal. Most of the world’s great religions and philosophies have advocated some form of simple living that elevates activities of the mind and spirit over material desires and activities. The great...