Resources and Recommendations

Iain McGilchrist, John Vervaeke and Daniel Schmachtenberger, three leading thinkers and visionaries had a very inspiring conversation on the metacrisis and crisis of meaning. Daniel Schmachtenberger is one of the most progressive thinkers and visionaries of our time. The Consilience Project was cofounded by him in order to explore and address some of the profound challenges facing […]

Reactivity versus Response-ability

In our time of multiple crisis and disruptions and right-wing authoritarian developments, we naturally experience strong emotional responses to them. We feel anxious, insecure, helpless, scared, angry, agitated or depressed. Our naturally occurring, mostly subconscious defense mechanisms against these strong emotions try to regulate our nerve-system, try to mitigate these intense feelings: We might deny […]

Terry Patten: Metacrisis – the Titanic on a collision course

Terry Patten was a philosopher, activist, scientific and spiritual author, including “A New Republic of the Heart: An Ethos for Revolutionaries”. We recommend his lecture Confronting The Meta-Crisis: Criteria for Turning The Titanic , in which he describes the meta-crisis as a convergence of problems that threaten civilization – in other words, as a convergence […]