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Book of the Day: Relational Reality
* Book: Spretnak, C. Relational Reality: New discoveries of Interrelatedness That Are Transforming the Modern World Topsham: Green Horizon Books, 2011 What is the book about? 1. “Ms. Spretnak’s eighth...
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Book of the Day: Religion and Equality in Human Evolution
In my book Religion in Human Evolution and its sequel, a work-in-progress titled The Modern Project in the Light of Human Evolution, I have been exploring a new metanarrative by means of an extended...
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Defending the PsyCommons from the PsyEnclosures of the Psychological Professions
Denis Postle has written an important book, Therapy Futures, which we will present soon. Here is already an introduction in the form of a call to defend the “psychological commons”, which are just as...
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A Revival of the “Hima”, the Islamic Tradition of the Commons
The prophet of the Islamic world sought to preserve special landscapes for everyone. Today, Muslim environmentalists are trying to reinvigorate this tradition. Excerpted from Jay Walljasper: “There was...
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Developing the Capacity to Hold a Collective Field
The text below is excerpted from the second part in a series on developing the new ‘p2p facilitation’ method called Collective Presencing. Source: The Circle of Presence: Building the Capacity for...
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Four Arguments on Sacred Economics
A summary of the main proposals in Charles Eistenstein’s book, Sacred Economics. Excerpted from Devin Martin: ” I would like to offer a brief summary and commentary on four key ideas contained in his...
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The Economics of Monasticism
Kevin Flanagan writes: “I’ve been reading ‘The Economics of Monasticism by Nathan Smith’ over the past week. He makes some interesting points in comparing the sustainability of intentional communities...
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Video of the Day: Alan Watts on Passionate Production
Intrinsic motivation and passionate production are key to participation in P2P projects. In this wonderful short video spiritual teacher and zen master Alan Watts discusses the importance of living...
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Meeting P2P/Openness advocates in Minneapolis?
Next month I will be in Minneapolis to speak about the relationships between p2p/Open(standards, software, education, manufacturing…) and Catholic Social Doctrine at this symposium. I will present a...
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The spiritual gift as the basis for the counter-economy
Interesting article within the context of christian theology. Here is the first part which usefully distinguishes three modalities of exchange, how they are interconnected, and how the...
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Against spiritual authoritarianism (1): Andrew Cohen steps down ?
One of my personal interests related to the P2P philosophy is the fight against spiritual authoritarianism. In this context, the stepping down of the abusive guru Andrew Cohen, seems like a piece of...
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From Techno-Macumba to P2P, for the Pecha Kucha crowd in Rio
This is not a topic I normally talk about, i.e., what was the spiritual and psychological evolution that led to my engagement with and for P2P? In seven minutes, invited by the Pecha Kucha organizers...
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Project of the Day: Strong Roots
Strong Roots Brief: “Established in 2006 by Lucy Scurfield, Strong Roots describes itself as a therapeutic garden project. It is, in essence, a piece of ground in Norwich where people can meet with...
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The convergence of alt-labor and the alt-congregations of DIY Judaism
After describing how the emergence of alt.labor and diy judaism is reviving to fledgling movements, Amy Dean focuses on the convergence between both: “These two parallel movements share some history...
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Selected Citations on P2P Spirituality
You can find the source of the citations here: * Dana Klisanin on Transception “It is not surprising then, that as our sphere of concern expands (i.e., from the personal to the global-planetary) we are...
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Interview with Father Antonio Spadaro SJ on Cybertheology
Fr. Spadaro, editor of the Civiltà Cattolica Review, and author of the essay Hacker_Ethics_and_Christian_Vision, is interviewed by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. “* Let’s get...
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Four circles in Judaism, anchored in time and place, repeatedly seek to remind us that life is rightly lived as a commons. Excerpted from Rev. Tracey Lind: “Judaism puzzles over this dilemma of the...
View ArticleThe myth of immaterial growth and ‘infinite happiness’
Republished from Andre Reichel: “When discussing the growth issue, especially from the perspective of #degrowth, one argument comes up regularly. This argument can be termed “infinite happiness” and it...
View ArticleThe Crisis of Representation and Autonomy of Self
The thirst for real democracy is a thirst to be free. It is the spirit that drives us to find our true aspirations within. Our self is empty. When society loses its grip and leaders become devoid of...
View ArticleBenedictan Rules as a Hacker Protocol
“UnMonasterians could do worse than devote some serious time in studying the benedictine ways as a protocol for societal impact in social innovation. This consists of the Rule (software), the physical...
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