In the open space of democracy, we engage the qualities of inquiry, intuition, and love as we become a dynamic citizenry, unafraid to exercise our shared knowledge and power. We can dissent. We can vote. We can step forward in times of terror with a confounding calm that will shatter fear and complacency. . …
We humans are self-organizing systems, we do not have to tell our hearts when to beat. We have, in our collective history also developed many examples of stable, self-organizing communities, based on psychic structures, concepts of reverence, transcendence and the sacred, that permitted voluntary internalizing of restrain in our behavior . . . This ability …
“If we want to survive and to remember what it is to be human, then we need to establish a viable pattern of activity for the whole Earth community. This community should be governed by the principle that every being has three rights: the right to live; the right to occupy a habitat; and the …