Excerpt from The Leadership Imperative interview with Oren Lyons, who led Bary Lopez (ORION, January 2008); translated by Jiří Zemánek. “In an era of self-promotion, Oren Lyons is the antithesis of celebrity. When he speaks about serious issues, there is no indomitable ego, no desire to be seen as important or wise. His voice is just one in a long line of voices…
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Interview with David Nicole – author of the book Gentle Activism
Jurriaan KAMP / Optimist Daily, May 9, 2017 / translation: Jiří Zemánek Meditation and prayer clearly contribute to social change. That is the inspiring message of David Nicol’s new book, Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation. Nicol teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies and is…
Border Patrol: An Interview with David Abram
This interview by Jeremy Hayward with American ecophilosopher David Abram about his book The Spell of the Sensuous (Pantheon Books, New York 1996; in Czech Kozlo smyslů. DhramaGaia 2013) was originally published under the title “The Boundary Keeper” in the magazine Shambhala Sun (May 1997). It was first printed in Czech in an abridged version in the cultural weekly A2 (19 / 7.5. 2008) and was subsequently published…
Living a New Story: How to Translate the New Story of the Universe into a New Way of Life
The new story is a cosmological story of creation, told through our telescopes and microscopes, and articulated by our increasingly refined understanding of how evolution has led us along this 14-billion-year journey. It is therefore also the story of our place in the universe, and it brings with it nothing less than a radical transformation of human self-understanding. As the key narrator of this…