Clik here to view.
Pope Francis: ‘We Are Custodians of Creation’
In my post Ask the Beasts yesterday, I mentioned that however well-meaning the idea of humans as "stewards" of creation, it's a fundamentally problematic notion. Stewardship inevitably implies a level...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yazidis, Ethnic Cleansing & the Denial of Death
Two weeks ago, I'd never even heard of the Yazidi people. This week, they're top of the news, driven from their homes in Iraq by the murderous Islamic State militia – raped, thrown into mass graves,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Day of Blessings and Sacrifices
If you were a goat this weekend, would you want to be Christian, Jewish or Muslim? Answer: Definitely Christian – at least for today. And definitely not Muslim. This year, the Muslim Festival of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Happens at the Mythic Tree of Knowledge
"I Am Not an Animal" It's been called the signature cry of all humanity. For thousands of years, we humans have sought to see ourselves as being superior to the other animals. How this came to be and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Of Popes, Pets and Paradise
If you've ever wondered whether there's an afterlife, you've probably found yourself making a mental list of the people you'd look forward to seeing there. This may have led to thinking about the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Birth of Human Exceptionalism
"I Am Not an Animal" It's been called the signature cry of all humanity. For thousands of years, we humans have sought to see ourselves as being superior to the other animals. How this came to be and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How Our Immortality Projects Impact the Other Animals
In previous posts we've talked about how our relationship to our fellow animals and the way we treat them is driven by our anxiety over the fact that we're animals, too, and our denial of our own...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A New World View of Our Fellow Animals
In the first part of our interview with Stephen Cave, he talked about how, once we decide that we are fundamentally different in kind from the other animals, we can then view them as having a lower...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sacred Activism in the Service of Animals
It's unusual to find someone who combines a deep, mystical love of the Divine with a stark realism about how we humans are bringing on a mass extinction of life on this planet. Andrew Harvey is one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Find Your Own True Mission
In this second part of our interview with Andrew Harvey, he talks about how you can discover your own true mission and about what can happen when you bring deep spiritual awareness together with a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pope Francis and Mother Earth
Those who say that the Pope shouldn't get involved in the issue of what's happening to Planet Earth and all its inhabitants are either very stupid or very afraid. Or, in the case of the political...
View ArticleClik here to view.
End These Religious Festivals Now!
It’s hard to drum up a lot of sympathy for people like 20-year-old Benjamin Miller, who required three hours of surgery last February after being gored by a bull at Ciudad Rodrigo’s Carnaval del Toro...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When Paradise Turns Deadly
The gentle creek that flows down Water Canyon turned deadly this week as it exploded into a flash flood killing 15 people, most of them children. It was beyond horrible for a community that shuns...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Election 2016 and the End of a World Age
Thomas Berry writes about the real choices we face this year and the Great Work upon which we should be embarking. Are you a conservative or a liberal? Pro-capitalism or pro-socialism? With all the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are You More Important than a Gorilla?
Dear Isaiah Dickerson, We know you didn’t mean any harm when you fell into the gorilla pen at the Cincinnati Zoo. You’re a naturally curious four-year-old, so what happened to Harambe isn’t your...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rivers of Blood
Sounds like something straight out of the ancient Biblical Ten Plagues: rivers of blood flowing down city streets. Except that it was happening last week right outside of the homes of people...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Companionship Across the Abyss
Is there a hidden meaning behind the story of Adam and Eve and the Serpent? Jonathan Crane takes a “deep dive” into this ancient myth and explains what it may be telling us about our relationship to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A New World View of Our Fellow Animals
In the first part of our interview with Stephen Cave, he talked about how, once we decide that we are fundamentally different in kind from the other animals, we can then view them as having a lower...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sacred Activism in the Service of Animals
It’s unusual to find someone who combines a deep, mystical love of the Divine with a stark realism about how we humans are bringing on a mass extinction of life on this planet. Andrew Harvey is one of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Find Your Own True Mission
In this second part of our interview with Andrew Harvey, he talks about how you can discover your own true mission and about what can happen when you bring deep spiritual awareness together with a...
View Article
