Empathy, Leadership, and Civic Agency Part 1

In previous posts I have written about empathy and leadership (e.g. Spiritual Crisis is the World’s Greatest Problem Part 2 – Cultural Sensitivity and Empathy) but I would like to revisit it again through a frame of empathy.  Civic mobilization requires that we understand and address the underlying problems that Read more…

Reality 6 – Restarting Civic Engagement and Citizenship

Heretic – original use of the term, “Someone who is in possession of the facts and is able to choose.”  Anyone in the world following politics in the USA will have noticed the final acts of ‘civic disengagement’ occuring.  Since the 1950s, ongoing dialogue within towns and neighborhoods was slowly Read more…

Reality 5 – Which path do we take?  Feudal Control or Community Collaboration?

We are at a crucial juncture in human existence.  Besides the need to grow spiritually (and for those that haven’t read my earlier posts on this, I emphasize that this does not automatically include religion, which itself is a control system) we need to regain control of our own society.  Read more…