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Here's a list of some upcoming online and Rogue Valley in-person eco-spiritual activities that may interest you. Check back, as this post will be updated during May 2026 with additional information, and a new calendar listing will come out in late May. Don't be intimidated by the scope of this list; choose to participate in just what calls to you. Online and In-Person Events May 4, 2026: Film Screening and Q&A Time: 4-5:30 p.m. PDT Event: The Center for Christogenesis is hosting a free online event featuring the film Seer. This screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Thomas Jay Oord, a renowned photographer, filmmaker, and theologian. "In the film Seer, Oord uses videos and photographs of nature to address key issues of love, God, and spirituality. The film is both provocative and emotional, centering on the power of love." Register here. May 5, 2026: Exploring Ethical Action Time: 1 p.m. PDT Event: Join the Deep Transformation Network as they ask: What is the most skillful way to respond as the world unravels around us? Explore a framework for ethical action developed by DTN founding member Brian Sarwer-Foner called Eco-Response-Ability (ERA). Zoom link: Join Here. May 6, 2026: Political Forum Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m. PST Event: Rogue Climate and the Sierra Club of Oregon are hosting a forum on Zoom. Hear from candidates in the Democratic primary for Oregon State Senate in District 3, representing the Rogue Valley. Election day is May 19th. Find more voter information here. Register for the Zoom event here. May 6, 2026: Theology of Love Time: 5-6 p.m. PDT Event: Process and Faith presents a Pop-Up: A Systematic Theology of Love with Thomas Jay Oord. He discusses how love influences our understanding of God and creation. Register here.. May 7, 2026: Connecting to Source Time: 7 a.m. PDT Event: The Presencing Institute is offering Connecting to Source: Accessing Deeper Knowing with co-hosts Antoinette Klatzky and Otto Scharmer. This session invites participants to pause, connect to their hearts, and explore the challenges we face. It’s a chance to access deeper layers of knowing and awareness through shared presence. May 8, 2026: Dialogue with Gregg Braden Time: 11 a.m. to Noon PDT Event: The Scientific and Medical Network presents Gregg Braden in conversation with SMN Program Director David Lorimer. They will discuss themes from Gregg’s 2025 book, Pure Human: The Hidden Truth of Our Divinity, Power, and Destiny. This dialogue will reflect on what defines our humanity, emphasizing empathy and connection. More information and registration here.. May 13, 2026: Developmental Philosophy Discussion Time: 4-5:30 p.m. PDT Event: Join Steve McIntosh of the Institute for Developmental Philosophy on Zoom. They meet every second Wednesday of the month. Connect and discuss the developmental perspective in their Facebook group, Developmental Philosophy, and on their X page @Culturedevelops. Sign up for the Zoom link here. May 14, 2026: Toward Ecological Civilization - Reflections and Possibilities Time: 10-11 a.m. PDT Event: A live virtual forum from Garrison Institute with Mary Evelyn Tucker, PhD, and Stephen Posner, PhD. Together, they will revisit key themes from the series and explore what these dialogues might teach us about cultivating more ecologically aware cultures in the U.S., China, and beyond. More information and registration here. May 19, 2026: Future Belongs to Hope Time: 10-11:30 a.m. PDT Event: The Center for Christogenesis welcomes Robert Nicastro for a live webinar titled The Future Belongs to Hope: Scripture, Science, and the Direction of the Universe. He will explore how ancient scripture relates to contemporary science, suggesting that the universe is converging toward greater wholeness. Register here. May 21, 2026: Prototyping Workshop Time: 7 a.m. PDT Event: The Presencing Institute is offering Regenerative Futures Lab II: Prototyping Workshop: Moving Ideas into Action. This lab creates space for participants to share and workshop their initiatives or prototype ideas. It’s an opportunity to receive practical feedback and nurture emerging ideas. It takes a village! May 26, 2026: SOCAN General Meeting Time: 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m. PDT Event: SOCAN is holding its General Meeting. This free public gathering focuses on building climate understanding, resilience, and action in Southern Oregon. Meetings are held on the last Tuesday of each month at the Medford Public Library. This month’s SOCAN General Meeting will feature Executive Director Daniel Scotton presenting, “Geopolitics & Our Energy Supply: Another Case for Green Energy Sovereignty.” This talk will examine the growing instability surrounding global fossil fuel markets, how international transportation and supply chains influence energy prices, and why recent disruptions highlight the need for greater electrification and local energy resilience. May 28-31, 2026: Integral Conference of North America (ICON) 2026 Event: The Integral Conference of North America (ICON) 2026 will take place in Denver, Colorado. The theme is Closer to Coherence — Integral’s Role in Building a Post-Tragic Future. Presenters include notable figures such as Ken Wilber, Roger Walsh, and many more. Online registration is $250. Register here.. May 29-31, 2026: American Teilhard Association Annual Event Event: The American Teilhard Association is hosting its Annual Event and Retreat at Daylesford Abbey in Paoli, PA. This year's featured speaker is Dr. Don Viney, who will discuss "Teilhard’s Creative Transformation: From Science to Metaphysics." This topic will help us view our ecological crisis through the lenses of Teilhard's Process Thoughts. Registration is open. Check details here June 7-12, 2026: Eco-Spirituality Retreat Event: Earth Literacies is presenting a 6-day online Zoom retreat called Protector of God's Creation: Eco-Spirituality Today with Diarmuid O'Murchu. This retreat will explore the shift in spirituality toward collaboration with the Holy Spirit in renewing the earth. The cost is $450. More information and registration here.. June 18, 2026: Festival of Prototypes Time: 7 a.m. PDT Event: The Presencing Institute is hosting Regenerative Futures Lab III: A Festival of Prototypes: Transforming Local and Global Systems. This session will showcase prototypes from around the world aimed at systems change. Whether you want to present your prototype or explore others, you’re invited to join in this celebration of emerging possibilities. Applications to present will open on May 21st. IntegralWorlview.com aggregates and curates information from many third-party sources and does not necessarily endorse all aspects of others' work. Still, we find their viewpoint provocative and interesting enough to encourage the reader to engage with and come to their understanding and actions, as they deem appropriate.

The Integrative Values Charter makes integrative commitments legible. It is a voluntary, self-attested trust mark—a public signal of alignment with eight shared commitments that tells the world what you stand for, without requiring membership of any kind. As discussed in my January 7, 2026 blog post, since the mid 2010's we find ourselves living in a more chaotic BANI world that is Brittle, Anxious, Nonlinear, and Incomprehensible. The Integrative Values Charter was created in response to this chaos. We need "the ability to hold multiple truths without losing coherence, to honor both rigor and interiority, critique and commitment, local belonging and planetary responsibility. "The systems are breaking—and something is already emerging.' "The institutions that built the modern world can no longer navigate the complexity they've created. Ecological overshoot, the collapse of shared sensemaking, political polarization, the transformation of society by exponential technologies—these aren't separate crises. They form a single pattern, and no single framework, tradition, or ideology has the resources to address them alone." I. Honor the Depth of Things Reality is deeper than its surfaces, and the life worth living is lived in that depth. The institutions of our time reward the flat, the fast, the reducible—but people know better, and always have. What is real in a person, a problem, a place, a moment, cannot be captured in a slogan, a statistic or a single perspective. We hold that depth is not a luxury but a responsibility. We commit to seeking it in our thinking, our disagreements, and our work—past the first explanation, past the loudest voice, past the comfortable conclusion. We make this commitment because depth is where wisdom forms, where trust is earned, and where the future we intend will actually be built. II. Everyone Is Right In a world sorting itself into tribes that can no longer learn from each other, we start from the conviction that every perspective captures something real and important—something that cannot be seen from anywhere else. This is not relativism, and it is not a totalizing system that swallows all others. It is the deeper work of discovering how different truths fit together, where they genuinely conflict, and which syntheses hold up under scrutiny. Be broad in what you consider, and discerning in what you accept. Integration is not a gesture—it is a practice, and one our fractured moment desperately needs. III. Hold Strong Views with Open Hands When shared sensemaking breaks down, the temptation is either to grip harder on what we already believe or to give up on truth altogether. We choose a third way: truth above tribe. We take positions seriously and hold them fallibly—approaching inquiry with both wonder and humility, knowing that every perspective is shaped by the place we stand. We commit to making ourselves visible through transparency and vulnerability: here's what we value, here's how we're thinking, here's what we're assuming, and here's why. Not because certainty is impossible, but because transparency is how understanding grows. Intellectual courage and intellectual humility are the same commitment. IV. Ground Our Values in Reality A civilization that has lost confidence in the reality of its own values cannot coordinate around anything but power and preference. We believe that values are not arbitrary and that goodness exists—that flourishing and suffering, justice and exploitation, beauty and degradation are real features of the world, not merely cultural preferences or subjective opinions. This holds for people, for society, and for the entire web of life. Values are not static commandments but emergent, dynamic, and discoverable—and all the more binding for that. We commit to making our judgments of goodness transparent rather than concealing them behind claims of neutrality. V. Act for Flourishing Understanding without action is incomplete. We orient our work and our lives toward expanding the conditions for creative, meaningful life—for people, for communities, for the living systems we are part of. We do not settle for a broken status quo when something better is concretely possible. Our hope is not vague optimism; it is grounded hope, fueled by real projects and the serious, visionary imagination of what could actually be built. We hold ourselves accountable to the world our work helps create. VI. Serve What's Unfolding The pressure to move fast—to disrupt, to accelerate, to skip ahead—is immense. But we recognize that growth is real and that it cannot be rushed past its own foundations. Development has direction: greater complexity, deeper awareness, wider care. Growth that leaves its past behind is not growth—it is dissociation that creates shadow that inevitably causes future harm. We honor the full arc of development in life, from the simplest to the most encompassing, knowing that each stage is necessary in what comes next. In a world racing forward blindly, this commitment to serve the wisdom of development is a foundation of building a society that can flourish. VII. Belong to the Whole Fragmentation is the signature failure of our time—of knowledge split into silos, communities walled off from each other, individuals cut off from the systems they depend on, and each of them recreating the very problems from which they say they want to be freed. To do so requires that we take full responsibility at whatever level we can for transforming the conditions we reproduce. In turn, this requires we understand ourselves as participants in a reality that is deeply interconnected, where part and whole shape each other at every scale. Unity-in-diversity is not a slogan but a structural feature of reality itself. We commit to thinking in whole systems and acting from our embeddedness within them, not from above or outside. VIII. Tend the Living World Every commitment in this charter rests on a planet that is alive, finite, and under stress. We are members of nature, not masters of it. The living systems that sustain us have intrinsic worth—not merely instrumental value to be optimized. We commit to regeneration over extraction, stewardship over dominion, and kinship over conquest—because honoring depth, development, and interconnection means nothing if we ignore the ecological ground on which all of it depends. "Futures are not fixed. Each one is a set of choices — some already made, most still open. They're not only choices about what to brace for; they're also choices about what we could build — shifts in economic values, cultural practices, and resilience-building infrastructure that could let us live in a society thriving more than we are today." ~ The Institute For the Future

A new Pew Research Center survey finds that "a majority of U.S. adults (61%) say the influence of religion is declining in America," even though the percentage who see religion gaining (37%) is up from a low in 2024, reversing a long decline. Perhaps this perception of reversal is partly because on February 6, 2025, the White House issued an executive order Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias. And on May 1, 2025, the White House issued an executive order establishing the Religious Liberty Commission. "More than half of Americans say religion plays a positive role in society. But most U.S. adults reject the idea that Christianity should be the nation’s official religion. And majorities want churches and other houses of worship to stay out of day-to-day politics and not endorse candidates." Meanwhile, the Associated Press says in a May 9, 2026, article, Rejecting church and state separation is on the wish list for Trump’s religious liberty commission. noted that "the chair of the Religious Liberty Commission is calling for a federal hotline with this automated recording: “There is no separation of church and state.” And the AP says in a May `14, 2026, article, the Trump administration will join a prayer gathering criticized for promoting Christian nationalism, stating that "Several members of the Religious Liberty Commission are scheduled to take part in a May 17, 2026, prayer event marking the country’s upcoming 250th birthday. Several also participated in a recent Bible-reading marathon staged largely at the Museum of the Bible." "The definition of 'religious liberty' among many conservative Catholic and evangelical activists includes: increasing avenues for religious expression in public schools; expanding opportunities for faith-based organizations to receive public money; and allowing for religious-based exemptions in areas ranging from labor law to classroom lessons to healthcare mandates." ~ Associated Press Here is a link to the DOJ list of Religious Liberty Commission and Advisory Board members.

I am reading Steve McIntosh's book The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experiences of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, which prompted me to ask ChatGPT the question: "Which philosophers, through time, have extoled the intrinsic values of beauty, truth, and goodness?" [Note: I added hyperlinks to Wikipedia for more information.] Answer: The triad of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness is one of the deepest and most persistent themes in the history of philosophy, religion, and aesthetics. Different thinkers interpreted the relationship differently — sometimes metaphysically, sometimes ethically, sometimes spiritually — but many treated them as intrinsic values: realities worth pursuing for their own sake, not merely for utility. Here’s the broad intellectual lineage. Ancient Foundations Plato (c. 428–348 BCE) Plato is the major fountainhead. For Plato: Truth = alignment with eternal Forms Goodness = the highest Form, source of intelligibility Beauty = the visible splendor of truth and goodness In works like the Symposium, Republic, and Phaedrus, beauty becomes a ladder that elevates the soul from physical attraction toward ultimate reality. He believed: Beauty awakens eros (longing) Truth disciplines the intellect Goodness orders the soul and society This triad became foundational for Western metaphysics. Aristotle (384–322 BC) Aristotle was less mystical than Plato, but still saw: truth as the goal of reason, goodness as the aim of ethics, beauty as harmony, proportion, and fulfillment of form. Unlike Plato, Aristotle grounded these values more in the natural world and human flourishing. Plotinus (204–270 CE) A massive influence on later Christianity, Islam, and mysticism. For Plotinus: Beauty reflects the soul’s participation in “The One” Truth and goodness radiate from ultimate unity The soul ascends toward divine reality through contemplation Beauty was not decorative — it was metaphysical illumination. Classical Religious Thinkers Augustine of Hippo (354–430) Augustine fused Christianity with Platonism. He believed: Truth is grounded in God Goodness is participation in divine order Beauty reflects divine harmony His famous phrase: “Late have I loved you, Beauty ever ancient, ever new.” For Augustine, beauty was spiritually transformative. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Aquinas systematized the “transcendentals”: Being Unity Truth Goodness (implicitly) Beauty He argued these are convertible aspects of reality itself. Beauty, for Aquinas, involved: integrity, proportion, radiance (claritas). This became central to medieval Christian aesthetics. Islamic and Jewish Philosophers Al-Farabi (870–951) and Avicenna (980–1037) Integrated Greek philosophy into Islamic thought. Truth, beauty, and goodness were linked to: divine intellect, cosmic harmony, moral perfection. Maimonides (1135-1204) Saw truth as intellectual apprehension of God and goodness as ethical alignment with divine wisdom. Beauty was often subordinated to intellectual and moral perfection, though not dismissed. Renaissance and Early Modern Thinkers Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) Revived Platonic spirituality during the Renaissance. Beauty became: a bridge between material and divine realms, an attraction pulling the soul upward. He heavily influenced Renaissance art and humanism. Emmanuel Kant (1724–1804) Kant split these domains into distinct critiques: Truth → Critique of Pure Reason Goodness → Critique of Practical Reason Beauty → Critique of Judgment For Kant: Beauty is “purposiveness without purpose,” Morality arises from rational duty, Truth emerges through structures of cognition. He preserved all three values, but fractured their unity more than Plato or Aquinas did. German Idealism and Romanticism Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) Believed beauty reconciles: reason and emotion, freedom and necessity, individual and society. Art became morally and politically transformative. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) Saw truth, beauty, and goodness as unfolding historically through Spirit. Art, religion, and philosophy were successive expressions of Absolute reality. Friedrich Schelling (1775–1854) Claimed art reveals the unity of truth and nature more deeply than rational thought alone. Romanticism elevated beauty enormously. Critics and Skeptics Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) Nietzsche both attacked and transformed the tradition. He distrusted: moral absolutism, metaphysical truth claims, Christian “goodness.” But he exalted: artistic creation, vitality, life-affirming beauty. For Nietzsche: “We possess art lest we perish of the truth.” He thought beauty could justify existence even when truth is harsh. Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) Truth was not mere correctness but unconcealment. Art reveals Being itself. Beauty becomes disclosure rather than decoration. Modern Religious and Existential Thinkers Simone Weil (1909–1943) One of the profound modern defenders of transcendent values. She believed: Beauty breaks open the ego, truth requires attention, Goodness requires self-emptying love. Beauty was evidence that reality exceeds human appetite. Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) Argued modernity preserved truth and goodness while neglecting beauty. His massive theological work The Glory of the Lord attempted to restore beauty as central to theology. Iris Murdoch (1919–1999) A major 20th-century moral philosopher. She saw: Beauty as moral education, goodness as attention beyond selfishness, truth as clarity against illusion. Strongly Platonic. Process, Holistic, and Evolutionary Thinkers Given my interest in relational holism and Teilhard, these figures matter especially: Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947) Whitehead treated beauty as possibly the ultimate metaphysical value. He famously suggested: “Beauty is the teleology of the universe.” Reality itself aims toward richer harmonies of experience. Truth and goodness emerge relationally within process. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955) Saw evolution moving toward greater: complexity, consciousness, unity, love. Truth, beauty, and goodness converge in the Omega Point — the culmination of cosmic evolution in divine relational fullness. Contemporary Echoes Today, the triad survives in: virtue ethics, environmental philosophy, integral theory, theology, aesthetics, educational philosophy, holistic science. Even many secular thinkers still implicitly appeal to: truth in science, goodness in ethics, beauty in art and meaning-making. The deeper conflict in modernity is often not whether these values matter, but whether they are: objectively real, socially constructed, evolutionarily adaptive, spiritually grounded, or emergent properties of consciousness and culture. A Useful Distinction Different philosophers meant very different things by these values: Thinker Truth Goodness Beauty Plato Eternal Forms Harmony of soul Reflection of the divine Aristotle Rational knowledge Human flourishing Order/proportion Aquinas Divine intelligibility Participation in God Radiance and wholeness Kant Cognitive structure Moral duty Disinterested judgment Nietzsche Perspectival Life-enhancement Artistic vitality Whitehead Relational process Harmonious intensity Cosmic aim Weil Attention to reality Selfless love Spiritual revelation One of the most important historical developments is this: Ancient and medieval thinkers largely believed that truth, beauty, and goodness were ultimately unified. Modernity increasingly fragmented them into separate domains. Contemporary holistic and spiritual thinkers are often trying to reconnect them again. Question: What do Ken Wilber and Steve McIntosh think about truth, beauty, and goodness? Answer: Both Ken Wilber and Steve McIntosh place Truth, Beauty, and Goodness near the center of their philosophical systems. They inherit the idea largely from: Plato, German Idealism, process philosophy, developmental psychology, and especially the integral tradition associated with Jean Gebser and Sri Aurobindo. But they reinterpret the triad evolutionarily and developmentally rather than statically or metaphysically. Ken Wilber: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness as the “Big Three” For Wilber, the triad maps onto fundamental dimensions of reality and consciousness. He often describes them as: Value Domain Perspective Truth objective science “It” Goodness ethics/morality “We” Beauty subjective experience/art “I” This becomes part of his famous AQAL framework (“All Quadrants, All Levels”). Wilber’s Core Insight Wilber argues modernity fragmented these domains: Science pursued truth, Morality pursued goodness, art pursued beauty, …but without a unifying worldview. He thinks premodern societies unified them too rigidly under religion, while postmodernity dissolved their coherence entirely. Integral philosophy tries to: preserve differentiation, while restoring integration. The Three Value Spheres 1. Truth (“It”) Truth concerns: empirical reality, systems, measurable phenomena, scientific knowledge. Wilber strongly supports science but argues: Science cannot answer moral or spiritual questions, Reductionism becomes destructive when “truth” colonizes all reality. He criticizes: scientism, flat materialism, reduction of consciousness to brain mechanics. 2. Goodness (“We”) Goodness emerges in: culture, ethics, shared meaning, intersubjective understanding. This includes: justice, compassion, communication, social coherence. Wilber sees moral development as evolving through stages: egocentric, ethnocentric, worldcentric, kosmocentric. Goodness deepens as identification expands. 3. Beauty (“I”) Beauty relates to: direct experience, consciousness, aesthetics, interior life, spiritual realization. Beauty is not merely visual attractiveness. For Wilber, beauty often means: depth, presence, felt meaning, awakened consciousness. Mystical experience becomes an intensified form of beauty. Wilber’s Spiritual Metaphysics Wilber ultimately thinks truth, beauty, and goodness are expressions of Spirit viewed from different perspectives. He sometimes phrases it this way: Beauty = Spirit experienced inwardly Goodness = Spirit communally enacted Truth = Spirit objectively perceived This is essentially a modernized neo-Platonism blended with systems theory and developmental psychology. Steve McIntosh: Evolutionary Integration of Values McIntosh builds on Wilber but places even more emphasis on: cultural evolution, values development, progressive civilization, and what he calls the “post-postmodern” worldview. He treats truth, beauty, and goodness as intrinsic values that evolve through history. McIntosh’s Key Move McIntosh argues: modernity overemphasized truth (science), postmodernity overemphasized goodness (equality/inclusion), while beauty and spiritual depth were marginalized. He believes civilization becomes healthier when all three are integrated. Beauty in McIntosh’s Thought McIntosh gives beauty unusually high importance. Beauty includes: elegance, depth, harmony, developmental richness, cultural vitality. He argues beauty motivates human aspiration more deeply than abstract morality alone. This resembles: Whitehead, Romanticism, Teilhard, and even aspects of Nietzsche. He often frames evolution itself as producing: greater complexity, greater consciousness, greater beauty. Truth for McIntosh Truth includes: science, rationality, evidence, coherence. But unlike strict modern rationalism, McIntosh says truth must include: developmental context, interior consciousness, meaning systems. He rejects relativism while also rejecting simplistic absolutism. Goodness for McIntosh Goodness emerges through expanding moral concern. He sees moral evolution progressing from: tribalism, authoritarianism, individualism, pluralism, toward integrative global ethics. His “goodness” strongly emphasizes: human flourishing, planetary stewardship, cooperation, conscious evolution. Their Shared Evolutionary Vision Both Wilber and McIntosh think: consciousness evolves, culture evolves, values evolve, Spirituality evolves. And they believe truth, beauty, and goodness become: more differentiated, more inclusive, more integrated through higher developmental stages. This is a major shift from classical philosophy. For Plato: Truth, beauty, and goodness were eternal realities. For Wilber/McIntosh: Humans progressively awaken to deeper realizations of them through historical evolution. Important Criticisms Their approaches have also drawn criticism. Critics argue: The developmental hierarchy can become elitist, “higher consciousness” language may oversimplify cultures, Spiritual evolution claims can become quasi-religious, Integral theory sometimes absorbs opposing views too easily, Empirical grounding is uneven. Postmodern critics especially challenge: universal developmental narratives, claims of civilizational “higher stages.” The Deep Philosophical Difference The deepest distinction between Wilber/McIntosh and many classical thinkers is this: Classical Tradition Integral Tradition Truth, beauty, and goodness are eternal Humans evolve into deeper realizations of them Reality is fundamentally ordered Reality is dynamically unfolding Emphasis on metaphysical permanence Emphasis on developmental emergence Spiritual ascent Evolutionary participation In One Sentence Ken Wilber sees truth, beauty, and goodness as the three irreducible perspectives through which Spirit manifests in reality. Steve McIntosh sees them as evolving intrinsic values whose growing integration drives the next stage of civilization.

Since February 2026, the Garrison Institute (as part of their Pathways to Planetary Health initiative) and the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology have been co-sponsoring a webinar series: Roots of Renewal: Ecological Civilization in China and the Confluence of Tradition and Modernity. The final forum will be on May 14, 2026. Register here. Each Forum has featured a guest speaker in dialogue with Mary Evelyn Tucker and moderator Stephen Posner, and invited participants into conversations that connect ideas to practice and values to systems change. What is an Ecological Civilization? 'Ecological Civilization' refers to an evolving cultural, ethical, ecological, and policy vision that asks: "What would it take to align human development with the flourishing of Earth’s living systems?" "Rather than treating ecological civilization as primarily technical, this series examines how social change is shaped by the relationship between tradition and modernity: where inherited worldviews and cultural traditions meet rapid development, and where inner cultivation and public institutions must be reimagined together." Across the series, they moved from on-the-ground conservation and thirty years of Ecological Civilization work in China, to Daoism and classical reading as pathways for self-transformation and social reform—culminating in the launch of a new Yale Forum Ecological Civilization website designed as a living resource for learning, teaching, and transformation. Questions about Ecological Civilization The Forums have considered questions such as: What recurring themes from the speaker series help illuminate the deeper cultural, ethical, and spiritual foundations of Ecological Civilization in China? Where do unanswered questions remain about how self-cultivation and social change together can genuinely support development toward Ecological Civilization? What opportunities and obstacles lie ahead for developing more ecologically aware cultures that give care to people, communities, and the living Earth – in China, the U.S., and other contexts throughout the world? Why is it important to consider the past and how we got here as part of the discussion of where we are now and the ecological civilization we would like to move towards for the future? Here are links to the five prior forums: February 18, 2026 - Gao Yufang — Conservation in China for Ecological Civilization March 4, 2026 - Zhihe Wang & Meijun Fan — Ecological Civilization: Thirty Years of Work in China March 18, 2026 - Daniel K. Gardner — Reading the Chinese Classics for Self-Transformation and Social Reform April 14, 2026 - Chen Xia — Daoism and Ecological Civilization April 29, 2026 - Simeiqi He & Andrew MacIver — A New Ecological Civilization Hub for Learning, Teaching, and Action Here are links to summaries of the 2025 dialogues: The Ecological Turn Cultivating Ecological Civilization: Wisdom, Practice, and Systems Change Mary Evelyn Tucker, PhD, co-directs the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, which examines cultural and religious values for broadened environmental ethics. This arose from a series of 10 conferences at Harvard on world religions and ecology that she organized with John Grim. She has published several books on Confucianism, including The Philosophy of Qi. She co-edited Confucianism and Ecology (Harvard) and two volumes with Tu Weiming on Confucian Spirituality. She is the co-author of Journey of the Universe with Brian Thomas Swimme and the executive producer of the Emmy Award-winning Journey film. This was inspired by Thomas Berry, whose books she edited and whose biography she wrote with John Grim. They have been traveling in China since 1985, studying Ecological Civilization. Stephen Posner, PhD, is Senior Fellow for Planetary Health at the Garrison Institute and Global Affiliate with the Gund Institute for Environment at the University of Vermont. Stephen integrates science with contemplative practices to build understanding across cultures, align human systems with nature, and promote cross-sector collaboration. He has published over 50 technical and non-technical articles on sustainability science and leverage points for systems change. He currently leads initiatives related to nature assessment and ecological stewardship. See my previous February 16, 2026, blog post on Conservation in China for Ecological Civilization.

I was first introduced to Terrence Deacon through Human Energy's 10-week Science of the Noosphere Master Class in the summer of 2023, where he discussed major evolutionary transitions from the origin of life to the origin of human societies, and the future of humanity with David Sloan Wilson and Eörs Szathmáry. The major idea discussed is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's conception of the noosphere, and that groups can evolve to become so co-dependent that they become super-organisms. In the Science of the Noosphere Master Class video, Deacon recounts his initial influence of the semiotic theory of Charles Sanders Peirce. He also studied with Noam Chomsky, although they became strong opponents of each other's work. Later in the mid 1990s, Deacon encountered the work of Eörs Szathmáry and John Maynard Smith, which opened the door to start to consider the 20th century evolutionary, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Here's the Abstract for Terry's presentation (above video) at Human Energy's N2 Conference on November 17, 2023: "Pierre Teilhard de Chardin argued that the human evolutionary process does not exhibit the pattern of diversification and specialization characteristic of biological evolution in general. Rather, it has a convergent character. This has parallels with the current recognition that there have been major transitions in evolution that have involved the coming together of once autonomous organisms to form highter older composite organisms, such as multicellular organisms like us. Symbolic communication (e.g., language) has contributed to this trend toward collective unification in humans because of the way it enables thoughts to be shared and cognition to be collaborative. Yet it is only possible if one is embedded in a cooperative social group that maintains this shared interpretive capacity. In this respect, humans have long been part of a collaborative mental process, a noosphere." At a November 11, 2025, Human Energy Salon, Terry Deacon addressed the Alignment for a Major Evolutionary Transition: The Future of Humanity and AI, together with Athena Aktipis (Cooperative Futures Institute), Peter Fenton (Benchmark Capital), and Nichol Bradford (Human + Tech Week). Terry emphasized how the formation of language by one species after billions of years was a major evolutionary transition, and our collective unconscious is part of us as a mirror. When the parts become part of a larger whole, when they begin to cooperate because they need each other, that gives them an aligned value. Terrence Deacon's first book, The Symbolic Species: The Coevolution of Language and the Brain (1998), focuses primarily on how the last of those transitions worked, drawing from Terry’s deep knowledge in many fields. In a more recent book, Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (2011), Terry explored the emergence of end-directedness in both biological functions and mental processes. He is also interested in understanding the underlying cooperative processes that enable transitions to take place. Terry has retired from his position as Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. In Spring 2026, Terry and his wife, Ella moved to Rogue Valley Manor in southern Oregon. Welcome friends.

Sea Dancer - one of six paintings by Imogene Drummond, now owned by a prominent New York collector, hangs with Motherwell and Jackson Pollack paintings, among others. Here's a list of some upcoming online and Rogue Valley in-person eco-spiritual activities that may interest you. Check back, as this post will be updated during March 2026 as we get additional information, and a new calendar listing will come out in late March. Don't be intimidated by the scope of this list; choose to participate in just what calls to you. March 3 - May 19, 2026, Tuesdays from 12:00 Noon - 2:00 p.m. PT - Programs in Earth Literacies are offering 12 (or 6) Sessions on Tuesdays, Art Sparks' 2026 Cosmic Creativity & Well-Being Program with Imogene Drummond. Module 1 begins Mar. 3, 2026; Module 2 begins Apr. 14, 2026. Replays of Sessions will be available 48 hours after recording. Cost: $360 CDN (12 classes) or $180 for 6 classes. More information and registration here. For more information about Imogene’s art, visit her website." March 5, 2026, at 1 p.m. PST - Creation Spirituality Communities (CSC) is offering Engaged Contemplation with special guest Sister Kathleen Deignan, founder of the Deignan Institute for Earth and Spirit at Iona University. She is a contemplative teacher and spiritual companion, a composer of sacred song and Earth guardian. She is the editor of the Books of Hours for Thomas Merton, Teilhard de Chardin, and Thomas Berry. Register here for First Thursdays on Zoom. In rotating months, the time slot will include Global Kinship, Kosmic Vespers, and something entirely new: Global Dreaming hosted by Robyn Hubbard. "Creation Spirituality is about reawakening mysticism & protecting our planet. CSC is a network of individuals and communities who experience our own spiritual paths in connection to the evolving paradigms of the universe." March 5, 2026 - June 18, 2026 - Presencing Institute's u-school for Transformation is offering a six-session global journey: From Sensing to Actualizing Regenerative Futures. - "90-minute live sessions offer a pathway from inspiration to action, weaving together inspiring stories, embodied practices, collective sense-making, and hands-on prototyping support." March 5, 2026 - Soil Health, Human Health, & Planetary Well-Being: Pathways for Regenerative Economies April 2, 2026 - Reclaiming Human Agency: Navigating AI, Social Fracture, and Polarization April 23, 2026 - Regenerative Futures Lab I - Cultivating Shared Awareness: Open Space Dialogue for Co-sensing Emerging Futures May 7, 2026 - Connecting to Source: Accessing Deeper Knowing May 21, 2026 - Regenerative Futures Lab II: Prototyping Workshop: Moving Ideas into Action June 18, 2026 - Regenerative Futures Lab III: A Festival of Prototypes: Transforming Local and Global Systems More information and registration here. March 5, 2026, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. PST - Seattle University's Albers School of Business and Economics is presenting Karen Hao, speaking on Empire of AI: How to Reclaim Democracy and Build a Fairer Future. This is a free, in-person event at the Pigott Auditorium, 901 12th Ave., Seattle, WA. "AI is upending the planet in real time, and its path of unchecked development threatens to erode democracy and return us to an age of empire, where a small group of companies dictates our future. It doesn’t have to be this way. ~ Karen Hao, a Silicon Valley engineer-turned-award-winning-journalist. March 7, 2026, from 10 a.m. to noon, PST – The Work that Reconnects Network is presenting a webinar: The Unfixing: Loss as an Invitation to Map a Future of Resilience and Belonging. Participants will be guided through the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects with a series of practices inspired by the film The Unfixing, an award-winning feature documentary film, and led by Director Nicole Betancourt and WTR Facilitator and Weaver Frieda Nixdorf. Clips from the film will be shared, and participants will engage in writing and sharing in small groups. More information and registration here. March 11, 2026, from 4-5:30 p.m. PDT - The Institute for Developmental Philosophy is hosting a Zoom presentation by theologian and Teilhard scholar Robert Nicastro, Executive Director of the Center for Christogenesis. In his talk, To Become More by Becoming One: Hyperphysics, Creative Union, and the Differentiated Self, Robert will explore Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s concept of hyperphysics—an effort to extend science beyond matter to include consciousness as a fundamental dimension of the cosmos. Here is the Zoom link for next week’s meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88627736779?pwd=Tm03cG1vaSs2ZGtPRkIvNGk0TnA3Zz09 March 10, 2026, at 4 p.m. PDT - Third Act presents Rebecca Solnit discussing The Beginning Comes After the End with Bill McKibben. In this sequel to her enduring bestseller Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit surveys a world that has changed dramatically since the year 1960. Join this session, as she discusses, The Beginning Comes After the End, a thrilling account of the sheer breadth and scale of social, political, scientific, and cultural change over the past three quarters of a century. RSVP here. March 11, 18, and 25, 2026 - The Sophia Institute is presenting Darkness, Love, and the Advancing Consciousness of These Times with Matthew Fox and Caroline Myss. "Many recognize that the times we are living in are dark and dangerous. Humanity and the Earth as we know it seem to be on the brink, with wars raging and the Earth being threatened, with democracy being challenged by authoritarianism and fear, and cynicism and despair in the air. The mystics talk about the “dark night” of the soul, but there is also the dark night of society and of the Earth and of democracy. What can we learn from the mystics and from science about navigating this dark night and turning it into an opportunity for a new birth of consciousness and possibility for our challenged species? More information and registration here. March 13, 2026 - Discover a contemplative response to uncertainty, loss, and change with CAC Dean of Faculty Carmen Acevedo Butcher and guests Cole Arthur Riley and Jon Batiste at “How Do We Find Hope in Hard Times?” Register here. March 16, 2026, at 11 a.m. PDT - iis presenting Fast Futures: Foresight for Beginners - a fast-paced, 90-minute, online learning experience taught live by Jane McGonigal about signals and drivers of change. $99 March 17, 2026, from 4-5:30 p.m. PDT - The Center for Christogenesis will host a live webinar with the Rev. Dr. Hillary Raining: Trauma, Transformation, and Christ-wholeness, exploring “the intersection of faith, tradition, and intergenerational trauma, with special emphasis on the Indigenous connection to evolutionary spirituality." They will also consider the Christian mystical tradition (purgation, illumination, and union) as a spiritual and integral framework for healing and transformation. More information and registration here. March 17, 2026 - April 7, 2026, from 4-6 p.m. PDT - Convergence is hosting Visions for the Common Good, a four-session conversation series exploring how we might re-imagine the shared life of humanity when old moral, political, and religious frameworks no longer hold. Hosted by theologian and teacher Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox, and including influential voices David Abram, Lynne Twist, Randy Woodley, and Cameron Trimble, will convene every Tuesday for 4 weeks, live on Zoom. More information and registration here. March 24–27, 2026 - Garrison Institute is having a three-day Conscious Change Forum gathering for practice, connection, and wisdom-sharing—designed as an opportunity to deepen relationships, help our movement come into focus, and to explore our common purpose. If you feel part of this field, you belong here. This is an in-person event in Garrison, NY. More information here. March 28, 2026, from 10 a.m. to noon PDT - Work That Reconnects Network is having a webinar: Tending to Collective Trauma with Stephanie Pizarro and Laura Calderón de la Barca. Register here. March 30, 2026, at 4 p.m. PDT - Th!rd Act is having their first All-In Call of the year. Erica Chenoweth will share insights on nonviolent resistance and how people-powered movements can shape what comes next. Together, we’ll dig into the path ahead—from protecting democracy to building local power in the face of rapid change." RSVP here. Rogue Valley Voice aggregates and curates information from many third-party sources and does not necessarily endorse all aspects of others' work. Still, we find their viewpoint provocative and interesting enough to encourage the reader to engage with and come to their understanding and actions, as they deem appropriate.

Unity Earth hosted Symposium V - Spiraling UP: A New Energy for Planetary Consciousness online February 20-22, 2026. I participated on Zoom, but needed to review to regain a fresh perspective here. The highlight video (above) on YouTube includes talks and panels from authors, scientists, musicians, theologians, and philosophers speaking on the themes of unity consciousness, interconnectedness, and interspirituality. The full speaker lineup included: Robert Atkinson, Diane Berke, Ben Bowler, Roger P. Briggs, Adam Bucko, Jude Currivan, Riane Eisler, Tezikiah Gabriel, Charles P. Gibbs, Jeff Genung, Audrey Kitagawa, Mussie Hailu, Kristin Hoffmann, Kurt Johnson, William Keepin, Julie Krull, Rama Mani, Deborah Moldow, Omashar, Jon Ramer, Alexander Schieffer, and Anne-Marie Voorhoeve, all members of: Evolutionary Leaders: In Service to Conscious Evolution of the Source of Synergy Foundation. Find the link to their website here. Day 1, February 20, 2026, had one session: Vision & Direction, focusing on "UNITY EARTH as an organization: reflecting on purpose, learnings, and pathways for 2026 and beyond." Day 2, February 21, 2026, was dedicated to Partnerships, Coalitions, Alliances, and Networks — because no single movement can meet this moment alone. The final Day 3 turned toward the maturation of interspirituality — how shared spiritual awareness becomes structured, embodied action in the world. You can watch Session 1 HERE and Session 2 HERE The Day 2 morning session brought together leaders whose work bridges traditions, sectors, and systems. Dr. Julie Krull explored inner coherence as the foundation of outer collaboration. Ambassador Mussie Hailu and Sami Awad draw on decades of peacebuilding across cultures, demonstrating how alliances form through courageous relationships. Syed Salman Chishty embodies the Sufi tradition’s call to unity through service. Yuka Saionji Matsuura, representing the global May Peace Prevail On Earth movement and the Goi Peace Foundation, demonstrates how shared intention can become living infrastructure — a worldwide network linking governments, communities, and grassroots leaders through a universal prayer for peace. From cosmology to partnership economics - Dr. Jude Currivan, Roger Briggs, Rama Mani, Alexander Schieffer, Riane Eisler, and Jon Ramer illuminate how networks of cooperation — across governance, spirituality, and social innovation — are shaping a regenerative planetary future. Hosted by Ben Bowler, this session revealed partnership not merely as a strategy, but as a lived practice — the essential architecture of planetary consciousness. Hosted by Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Deborah Moldow, this session brought together institutions and leaders who have carried the work of interspiritual collaboration into long-term, lived practice. Day 3, February 22, 2026 - The Future of Interspirituality: From Awareness to Action You can watch Session 1 HERE and Session 2 HERE The final Day 3 on February 22nd turned toward the maturation of interspirituality — how shared spiritual awareness becomes structured, embodied action in the world. The morning session opened with a keynote from Rev. Matthew Fox, whose Creation-centered theology and prophetic voice call us into a spirituality that serves justice, ecology, and cultural transformation. This was hosted by Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Deborah Moldow From there, three converging clusters demonstrated how this vision is being carried forward: Cluster 1 – Bede Griffiths Trust Matthew M. Cobb, Patrick Carolan, Calvin Chatlos, and Roger Briggs represent a contemplative lineage in dialogue with science, ecology, and systems thinking — spirituality expressed through institutional continuity and cultural evolution. Cluster 2 – Temple of Understanding Grove Harris, Jonathan Granoff, and Jyotsna Singh show how spiritual principles can influence diplomacy, education, and global cooperation — translating dialogue into structural impact. Cluster 3 – Holomovement & Prosocial Spirituality Jeff Genung, Rev. Diane Berke, William Keepin, and Susan Belchamber explore the integration of spirituality, systems science, and collective intelligence in shaping regenerative culture. Geff Genung is Managing Director and Chief Architect of ProSocial World. Jeff serves ProSocial's mission to consciously evolve a world that works for all. We believe that to catalyze rapid, positive cultural change, we need to recognize our interconnectedness and continuously improve the relationships we have with ourselves, each other, and the planet. ProSocial is an evidence-based framework for cooperation. It integrates multiple sciences, including the Nobel Prize-winning work of Elinor Ostrom. ProSocial has trained 1,000 facilitators in over 35 countries. In a dedicated segment, Rocky Dawuni shared reflections on the cultural dimension of planetary awakening, followed by one of his songs — embodying the movement from awareness into action through art. Hosted by Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Deborah Moldow, the morning session brought together institutions and leaders who have carried the work of interspiritual collaboration into long-term, lived practice. The afternoon session on February 22nd - From Dialogue to Embodiment: Interspiritual Action in a Divided World - was also hosted by Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Deborah Moldow, who brought together institutions and leaders who have carried the work of interspiritual collaboration into long-term, lived practice. Cluster 4 – United Religions Initiative (URI) With Charles P. Gibbs, Kay Lindahl, Gard Jameson, and Sally Mahé, we saw grassroots global networks advancing peace, listening, and cooperative leadership across nations and cultures. We see grassroots global networks advancing peace, listening, and cooperative leadership across nations and cultures. https://www.youtube.com/live/lUIOSaypbOo?si=TtyUECh-kxW9pPRk Cluster 5 – Charis Foundation & the Snowmass Dialogue; Gender Equity & Reconciliation International Rory McEntee and Alejandra Warden represent a lineage of contemplative dialogue among the world’s traditions — where spiritual depth becomes shared responsibility. Rory D. McEntee is Executive Director of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality. Charis supports spiritual maturation, interspiritual collaboration, and broad systemic change in the world. Our ethos, or the spirit of our ideals, is articulated in our “Charis Community Vows.” Find out more about Rory here and his books: Rory McEntee. The Sacred/Secular Binary: Challenging the Divide in University Culture and Democratic Societies. (2015) Rory McEntee & Adam Bucko, New Monasticism: An Interspiritual Manifesto for Contemplative Living (2015) Find out more about the Snowmass Interreligious Conference held from 1984 until 2015 by Father Thomas Keating (1923-2018) at the St. Benedict's Monastary in Snowmass, Colorado here. Find out more about Contemplative Outreach of New Mexico here. This group was established to bring this ancient prayer practice out of the monastic milieu to those in our contemporary society. Alejandra Warden, also of Charis Foundation, represents a lineage of contemplative dialogue among the world’s traditions — where spiritual depth becomes shared responsibility. Divine feminine Charis Circles. Alejandra Warden wrote an amazing book, Remembrance: A Vision of the Sacred Feminine and the Renewal of the Earth. Alejandra participates in Ed Bastian’s Spiritual Paths Institute. Through William Keepin and Rev. Cynthia Brix, interspirituality moves beyond conversation into the healing of gender division and relational imbalance. Will Keepin, PhD, is president and executive director of the Satyana Institute in Boulder, Colorado, which he cofounded in 1996. He also founded Gender Reconciliation International, which has organized more than 75 intensive gatherings in seven countries for healing and reconciliation between women and men. A mathematical physicist with 30 scientific publications on sustainable energy and global warming to his name, Keepin presented testimony to European and Australian parliaments and the United States House of Representatives, and became a whistleblower in nuclear science policy. Keepin began practicing silent meditation in 1982, trained in transpersonal psychology, and has facilitated Holotropic Breathwork since the 1990s. He leads retreats on interfaith spirituality and is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and adjunct faculty at Holy Names University. Keepin is the author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men; co-editor of Song of the Earth: The Emerging Synthesis of Scientific and Spiritual Worldviews; and co-author of Women Healing Women. On Jan 15, 2026, Ben Bowler interviewed mathematical physicist Will Keepin to discuss his 2016 book entitled Belonging to God: Science, Spirituality & a Universal Path of Divine Love on the tenth anniversary of 1God.com. They discussed science, spirituality, and mysticism, exploring the dynamic relationship between the various systems of knowledge. “Can Science Reveal GOD?" https://youtu.be/BKSpb7yk5Ds?si=Nvo33IPZRdowqFHS Rev. Cynthia Brix, MA, MDiv, is an interfaith minister specializing in international peacemaking and spiritual direction for young adults. She is the program director of Satyana Institute, co-director of the Gender Reconciliation International project, and cofounder of the Women’s Spiritual Mastery project. Robert Atkinson and Ben Bowler called us forward in the final gathering — “from inspiration to implementation, from shared vision to shared work.” “In the 70s, the 80s, and the 90s, we really thought we were on a stepwise progression to a kinder and better world. We had the work of Paul H. Ray (Cultural Creatives), Paul Hawken, and so many other optimists who were telling us that we were on that directions. But what’s happened is that instead we’ve moved into a regressive period and an evolutionary catastrophe. And it’s a regressive period that is really based on three things that the original pioneers of inner spirituality did not anticipate: Disaffiliation from the great wisdom tradition. And what this has meant is that so many people in the world, particularly younger people, do not have access readily to those deep, deep values and those depths of consciousness and behavior. The rise of nationalist populism and the move toward authoritarianism and away from democracy on a global level. The move away from printed media, which was more reflective, and to screen media, from which we have had the development of the misinformation and the disinformation era. This evolutionary catastrophe so changes the norm that you have no idea of how you would get back to any type of new normal. We are living in a world that basicaly based on domination systems and how those domination systems work within the realm of family and home, and how we grow up, how we work in economics, and how they work in politics, and even in the stories that a culture tells about who’s in and who’s out and the ranking systems that those domination views purvey. Obviously, we are going to have to move from the domination system to the partnership system if we are going to survive and have any chance to thrive.” ~ Kurt Johnson #unityconsciousness #interconnectedness #interspirituality.

NASA astronaut and Artemis II Mission Specialist Christina Koch peers out of one of the Orion spacecraft's main cabin windows, looking back at Earth, as the crew travels toward the Moon. Image Credit: NASA If you have been following RogueValleyVoice.com you will have noticed that on April 10, 2026, the name changed to IntegralWorldview.com. This happened to coincide with NASA's Artemis II successful flight around the moon. Their view from space is similar to the "Blue Marble" photo of December 1972 that changed our perspective on Spaceship Earth, our home. But a lot has changed in our world in the last 54 years, and we now have a better cosmic perspective due to the James Webb Space Telescope. The complexity of our interdependence was evident in the COVID-19 world crisis and now in the war in Iran and the choke point of the Strait of Hormuz. Study of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin led me to a deep time, evolutionary worldview where there has been a movement toward both greater complexity and unity over the past 13.8 billion years; that consciousness is intrinsic to matter; that there is a direction toward Omega; and that because of technology, we have entered a new phase of a global mind - the noosphere. Science has advanced due to specialization and analysis of the parts, but quantum physics has revealed the interrelationship of everything, and an interdisciplinary approach will help bring our understanding together. I believe a new, integral, holistic worldview is necessary if we are to survive and thrive as a human species. The integral framework and spiral dynamics help us understand how we have advanced from tribal, warrior, traditional, modern, post-modern consciousness and beyond. We are transforming from boundary-defined forms to second-tier formlessness. We are transitioning from first axial to second axial spirituality. Indeed, artificial intelligence is pushing the boundary of what it means to be human. I had WordPress blogs previously, as ReddingVoice and SaratogaVoice, when we lived in California. In February 2022, I started writing the blog RogueValleyVoice.com with the purpose to "focus on education about the climate emergency, positive actions that are being taken now toward sustainability, and building supportive relationships." As I write this blog largely for myself, with many underlined hyperlinks as my research expands, I am now exploring an integral worldview, which I believe is necessary to achieve those original goals.

Research-driven scenarios demonstrate how foresight tools can help communities imagine and design a more equitable and sustainable future—one that works for both people and the environment.~ Rachel Hatch, Chief Operating Officer, IFTF On December 11, 2024, the Institute for the Future (IFTF) published a study: Oregon 2035: Four Alternative Scenarios on climate change. This alternative futures project was a collaborative effort involving policy advocates, community members, and partners from 1000 Friends of Oregon with futurists and creatives at IFTF. Each of these four alternative scenarios touches on the economy, technology, transportation, environment, society, and politics. IFTF summarized their scenarios in four brief but spectacular YouTube videos. They are neither forecasts nor predictions of the future, but provocations for engaged discussion. Click on the underlined hyperlinks below to view these thought-provoking videos: A Growth Future: INSATIABLE (A future driven by the desire for continued economic growth, even at the expense of equality and sustainability.) A Collapse Future: SCRATCH (A future ravaged by climate, economic disparities, and breakdown of core systems.) A Constraint Future: PRUNING (A future driven by difficult choices and the acceptance of fewer individual freedoms for the benefit of all.) A Transformation Future: LIMINAL (A future accelerated by technological breakthroughs and a re-definition of reality.) Download the IFTF document, Oregon 2035: Four Alternative Scenarios Prepared by Institute for the Future for 1000 Friends of Oregon here. Also, be sure to download HORIZON SCAN FOR 1000 FRIENDS OF OREGON. What future do you think is most likely? How can we best prepare? What future would you like to see happen in Oregon? What can we do about it? 1000 Friends of Oregon is now over 50 years old. It was founded by Henry Richmond and Governor Tom McCall in 1974. The previous year, Governor McCall had signed Senate Bill 100 into law, creating Oregon’s iconic land use planning system. He and a young attorney named Henry Richmond realized that the fledgling legislation would need a champion – or rather, 1000 champions.1000 Friends of Oregon works with Oregonians to enhance our shared quality of life by building livable urban and rural communities, protecting family farms and forests, and conserving natural areas. Since 1974, 1000 Friends has worked to protect and improve Oregon’s unique, statewide land use planning program through education, policy advocacy, coalition building, and strategic litigation. 1000 Friends of Oregon is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in Portland, Oregon. The non-profit organization's current Executive Director is Sam Diaz. Our mission is to promote healthy working lands, great communities, shared prosperity, and a strong democracy with and for all Oregonians. I am not a scientist, so I asked Google Gemini: "What are the specific impacts of climate change in Oregon, and what is the forecast for the next 10 years?" Gemini replied: "Oregon is already experiencing significant climate impacts, which are projected to intensify in the next decade, primarily characterized by increased heat, severe wildfires, and altered water resources. Specific Impacts of Climate Change in Oregon Extreme Heat: The frequency, duration, and intensity of heat waves are increasing significantly. The 2021 heat dome event, which caused numerous deaths, is projected to increase in frequency to as often as once every six years by the end of the century. Wildfires: Warmer temperatures, reduced snowpack, and drier summers are leading to more frequent, larger, and more damaging wildfires. The area burned by wildfire each year has increased over the past 35 years, threatening communities, infrastructure, and air quality with smoke pollution. Water Resources: Reduced Snowpack: Warmer winters mean more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow, leading to significantly reduced snowpack in the Cascades. This is expected to decline by as much as 40% by 2040 in early spring. Drought and Flooding: The state is facing longer, more severe summer droughts interspersed with more intense winter precipitation events (atmospheric rivers), increasing the risk of both water scarcity and major flooding/landslides. Coastal and Ocean Impacts: Sea levels are rising, increasing the risk of coastal erosion, storm surges, and saltwater intrusion into freshwater supplies. The ocean is also becoming warmer and more acidic, impacting commercial fisheries like Dungeness crab and salmon. Ecosystem and Health Impacts: Climate changes disrupt natural systems, leading to shifts in plant and animal distributions, increased pests and diseases in forests, and public health issues such as heat-related illnesses and respiratory problems from wildfire smoke. Forecast for the Next 10 Years (through~2035) In the immediate future, these trends are expected to accelerate. Temperature: Average annual temperatures are expected to continue rising, with summers warming more than other seasons. The number of days above 90°F will increase in many inland areas. Precipitation: Winters are likely to be slightly wetter, while summers will continue to be drier. Extreme precipitation events in autumn and winter are projected to increase in intensity. Wildfire Activity: From 2035 onward, projections for the western Cascades suggest wildfire activity could be at least twice as intense as in recent decades. Water Management Challenges: Reduced snowpack will continue to challenge water supply management for irrigation, municipal use, and maintaining streamflows for aquatic species. State agencies and researchers are increasingly confident in these projections, emphasizing the need for robust adaptation strategies across various sectors, from energy systems to public health infrastructure. "

Conceptual image is AI-generated. I recently quickly read the 2024 book by Rev Karla Kamstra: Deconstructing: Leaving Church, Finding Faith. I say quickly because the writing style is nurturing and conversational, but seems directed more toward a young, female audience who are "spiritual, but no longer religious" and have found the courage to leave their conservative, patriarchal Christian church. The book provides a helpful antidote to the scourge of white Christian (sic) nationalism that has infected some churches and our government. Although I, too, have deconstructed, in a different way, and am drawn to spirituality beyond religion, I am not quite her audience.* I am also used to reading scholarly writers with footnotes and was looking for insights into what's next. I was initially curious because, as a futurist, I am always looking for current signals of change, and the book touts "TikTok's Beloved Rev Karla." Indeed, RevKarla has 790.7K followers and has an impressive social media presence on SubStack, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Karla ministers to a large "digital congregation" without walls or dogma. "Rev Karla Kamstra is an ordained interfaith and interspiritual minister, author, and spiritual teacher helping those healing from religious trauma toward a more authentic, liberated spirituality." She was ordained in 2017 following 5 years of study with the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary** based in New York City. "Once rooted in evangelical Christianity, "Karla now walks a non-religious, deeply sacred path—one of curiosity, compassion, and personal truth. Through her work, she helps others unlearn patriarchal conditioning, reclaim their spiritual autonomy, and rediscover the sacred in everyday life." Find Rev Karla on: Her website Substack TickTok Instagram Facebook YouTube Q&A Live Streams with Rev Karla 2017 article on Karla in Bloom Magazine Deconstructing is often a painful, but necessary step in the path of creativity towards something new and better. As Ilia Delio says in her Easter Week 2026 essay: Truly Human in a Partially Human World: "Creativity thrives on entropy; only when things break down does life find a way to break through. Evolution is a via dolorosa, suffering through the tragedies of existence into something higher and more wondrous. And we, by taking up this path, become part of that cosmic unfolding — the third incarnation of a love that will not stop until it fills all things." * Harm caused by churches is not restricted to patriarchy toward females, minorities, and LGBTQ+. I am an elderly, white, straight man who several years ago abandoned a progressive denomination because of a controlling female pastor. I have been reconstructing an optimistic, evolutionary worldview that is spiritual, but not religious in an institutional way, led by many guides with a new, emerging story, compatible with science. One week before I received Karla's book in the mail, I selected the word "Beloved" after listening to a video by Cynthia Bourgeault on centering prayer; when I received the book, the inscription was to "Beloved." Was this just a coincidence or the Mystery of the Universe calling me toward being more loving? ** Rev. Diane Berke is the founder & teacher of the One Spirit Learning Alliance. Their Interspiritual Foundations first-year seminary program is supported by many skilled teachers and workshop facilitators. Returning luminaries include interspiritual giants such as Dr. Kurt Johnson, Rev. David Wallace, Rev. Mark Fowler, Rev. DeShannon Barnes-Bowens, Rev. Eileen Fisher, Mirabai Starr, Rev. Dr. Ed O’Malley, Deborah Egerton, Dr. Robert Holden, Rev. Barbara Becker, and more. Their second year Seminary is now the Interspiritual Seminary Ordination Pathway IMPORTANT NOTE: Even though many, including me, are "done" with institutional Christianity, it does not mean that we have any less love for Jesus of Nazareth and his teaching (as we now understand them). It's just that in the 21st century, we now have a broader perspective of both religion and science - the old dogmas, doctrines, rituals, and hymns no longer speak as clearly to our understanding of reality. Many of our best friends remain members of Christian churches, and I have no intention to question or change their faith.

Steve McIntosh is a developmental philosopher, cofounder and president of the Institute for Developmental Philosophy, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that "seeks to advance humanity’s understanding of noosphere evolution—the evolution of human history". In his presentation on YouTube, Steve examines "evolution's structure of emergence—the sequence of integrated levels that connects each of us to the beginning of the universe." Steve starts by examining humanity's various attempts to chart this evolutionary structure, including Ken Wilber's ambitious 4-Quadrant model. After critiquing Wilber's model, Steve then considers how improving our understanding of evolution’s overall structure-process can help us meet the challenges of our time in history. Steve McIntosh is a philosopher of noosphere evolution. "Influenced by the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, his work focuses on understanding intrinsic value and furthering the development of human culture." Writing in the emerging field of developmental philosophy, McIntosh has authored several books: Developmental Politics: How America Can Grow Into a Better Version of Itself (2020) Conscious Leadership: Elevating Humanity Through Business (with John Mackey and Carter Phipps - 2020) The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness (2015) Evolution's Purpose: An Integral Interpretation of the Scientific Story of Our Origins (2012) Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (2007). Truth Emerging: A Developmental Philosophy of Purpose and Progress will be published by Orbis Books on September 30, 2026. Subscribe to The Developmentalist online magazine of developmental philosophy. Transform your political practices with Steve's free 9-part video course, “Becoming Part of the Solution: A Course In Developmental Politics,” taught by Institute President Steve McIntosh. Find more videos on Developmental Philosophy's YouTube channel. Join Steve McIntosh’s Monthly Zoom Group every second Wednesday of each month.

Here's a list of some upcoming online and Rogue Valley in-person eco-spiritual activities that may interest you. Check back, as this post will be updated during April 2026 as we get additional information, and a new calendar listing will come out in late April. Don't be intimidated by the scope of this list; choose to participate in just what calls to you. April 1, 2026 - The Elder Leadership Incubator is having an Orientation on Zoom. "You’ll collaborate with fellow elders over five weekly sessions under the tutelage of Clint Wilkins, an elder changemaker and former associate with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford. You’ll learn to “make a map and mind the gaps” of an issue you’d like to tackle, say climate change, food waste, or childhood poverty. Then you will lay the foundation for your project’s strategic plan, establishing the foundation for the journey ahead, supported by this community of fellow elder changemakers." Register here. "Elder Action Network (EAN) including its projects, Elders Climate Action (ECA) and Elders for Sound Democracy (ESD) are nonprofit and nonpartisan, elder-centered and volunteer driven working to engage older generations to advocate for policies and practices that protect our air and water, our democracy, our economy, our communities and our health—now and for generations to come. . April 1-30, 2026 - Earth Month EcoChallenge 2026 is "a 30-day program focused on environmental and social engagement. During this month, you're invited to select actions that resonate with your values, committing to them for 30 days to foster and reinforce positive habits. Each action you complete earns points and generates real-world impact. Your efforts, combined with those of your team, contribute to a significant collective difference... EcoChallenge is a non-profit digital platform based in Portland, OR, that gamifies behavior change. Fun challenges encourage new habits. Small steps lead to big change. Together, we build a more sustainable world." More information here. April 8, 15, and 22, 2026, at 4 p.m. PDT - Join Matthew Fox in a three-part live series Science and Spirituality, exploring the intersection of science and spirituality with Nancy Abrams, Brian Thomas Swimme, and Robert Nicastro. More information here. April 7, 2026, from 5-6 p.m. PDT - Process & Faith is offering: Meaning-Full Expression: An Interfaith Exploration through the Arts with Dr. Jay McDaniel and Sarah Hyndman, on six Tuesdays, Apr 7 - May 12, 2026, This six-week course emphasizes engaging the heart as well as the mind, inviting participants to encounter art as a way of discovering meaning and interfaith understanding. More information here. April 9, 2026, from 7-8 p.m. PDT - Elders Climate Action-Oregon’s monthly meeting takes place via Zoom with a discussion of chapter initiatives: Adventures in video production - Mike Activities with EOC3 (Eastern Oregon Climate Change Coalition) - Charles Recap from PIELC (Public Interest Environmental Law Conference) - Tom Update on the Coastal Resilience Toolkit publicity tour - Renée To attend the meeting, access Zoom via this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81214128702?pwd=N4QWs87QhUweGbVbKbiSmkQ1hbd3SS.1 April 9, 2026 - May 7, 2026, at 4 p.m. PDT - Creation Spiritual Communities is offering a five-week course taught by Theodore Richards on Thursday afternoons: Reimagine: Self and Worldview, "This course seeks to first understand our world through the lens of cosmology; then looks at how our world is unraveling (the polycrisis); and, finally, works collaboratively to reimagine our work, and our world, by applying a new world-vision... This is an invitation to explore our worldviews—the narratives and symbols that give us our sense of who we are and our place in the world. This course provides the foundational concepts from our spiritual, philosophical, and scientific traditions by exploring the concept of cosmology/ecology." Register here. $125 fee. April 13, 2026, from 4-5 p.m. PDT - Columbia Climate School is offering a livestream, The Global Impact of Sea Level Change. Changes to the world’s ice sheets and sea levels are reshaping the places we call home. From flooding and intensifying storm surge risks in New York City to dramatic shifts along the coasts of Greenland and the Nordic region, rising and falling seas deeply affect our infrastructure and cherished landscapes. Register here. April 15-17, 2026 - The Center for Process Studies will host the first online gathering of the Mind-at-Large Project: A New Dawn, which inaugurates their unfolding inquiry into consciousness and its role in the nature of reality "Designed to be globally accessible, the conference will convene leading thinkers and emerging scholars from around the world for two and a half days of shared inquiry into the deeper nature of mind—from the subatomic to the ecological, from the human to the cosmic." Learn more and register here. April 16, 2026, from 4-5:30 p.m. PDT - The Center for Christogenesis welcomes Andrew Del Rossi for a live webinar: Explicitly Embodied: Exploring the Sacred Synergy of Spirit and Psyche. He will present "an integrative perspective on spiritual growth as conscious evolution, grounded in a clear insight: spiritual awakening is a process of embodiment, and psyche and spirit mature together through lived, relational, incarnational experience. Register here. April 18, 2026 - Southern Oregon’s annual Earth Day event at ScienceWorks Museum in Ashland, OR, promises to be a day of fun and learning about the science behind our planet's systems. The Saturday, April 18th event will also include outreach from local businesses and nonprofits working to build a better environmental future. Tickets and additional details are on the ScienceWorks website. April 21, 2026, at 7 p.m. PDT - The Climate Reality Project, Portland Chapter is having their April meeting on Zoom Bridging Divides with guest speaker Bill Howe— founder of the SAGE Citizen Project who will give a 20 minute presentation about the cause and degree of the current state of political polarization and how it creates policy gridlock, undermines democratic institutions, and sabotages personal relationships, followed by outlining the social science research that suggests what individuals and organizations can do to work across differences so communities can move forward productively and solve problems. More on Bill Howe and the presentation on their meeting registration page. April 22, 2026, from 1-4 pm. PDT - Rogue Valley Manor is celebrating Earth Day with RVM residents and local organizations with nine display tables with information from food composting to solar energy to recycling updates. Learn from Dave Keaton, RVM Executive Director; Drew Gilliland, Facilities Services Director; and Paula Luz, Grounds Manager. Refreshments and door prizes. 1200 Mira Mar Ave., Medford, OR 97504 April 22, 2026, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. PST - One Spirit in Action (OSIA) is offering An Evening of Breath: Revolutionary Love for All. This free Activating Oneness event continues in a series. Join for a space to breathe together and move through the revolutionary love compass from the work of Valeria Kaur. Register here. April 22, 2026, at 5 p.m. PDT - UU Ministry for Earth's annual Earth Day Worship Service - Sentience Surrounds Us. Featured speakers include members of our UU Ministry for Earth community as well as special guests from UU Animal Ministry. The service will weave music, meditation, poetry, storytelling, and theological reflection on this year’s theme, “Sentience Surrounds Us.” More information and registration here. April 24, 2026, at 5 p.m. PDT - The Presbyterian Association on Science, Technology, and the Christian Faith is hosting an Ecumenical Roundtable Public Lecture: “Waking up to Wholeness: God, Matter and Evolution” with Ilia Delio, PhD. Ilia’s lecture will be available via Zoom. All attendees must be registered to have access to the Zoom connection information. Register here. April 27, 2026, from 8:30-10:30 a.m. PDT - The Forum at Columbia University is presenting as part of their Signature Speaker Series: Ginger Zee, ABC News Chief Meteorologist and Chief Climate Correspondent, speaking on Current Climate: Reporting on Climate Change on Network TV. Registration is required here. CANCELLED April 28, 2026, at 9 a.m. PDT - The Institute for the Future is offering a Zoom webinar for a discussion with Bianca Drotleff, Advocacy Programme Assistant at the Association for Liberty and Equality of Gender (ALEG), an NGO that addresses gender inequality in Romania. Bianca is a 2024 IFTF Foresight Essentials alumna who drew on her course knowledge to lead ALEG’s 20th Gender Equality Festival, focusing on the futures of gender equality. Attendees employed futures thinking methods to move past restrictive assumptions, including the sense that gender equality progress is under threat or that the current political climate limits possibilities, and build six scenarios of equitable futures. April 28, 2026 - Human Energy is having a Salon in Paris, France - AI and the Future of Learning; How on Earth do we Learn to Live Together? Featured Panelists include François Taddei, Stefan Leijnen, and Michaela Horvathova. The salon will be publicly accessible via livestream so viewers around the world can join the conversation. Livestream signup here. April 28, 2026, from 6 to 7:30 p,m, PDT - SOCAN's monthly meeting features Lydia Doleman, Earth Dragon Natural Building LLC, speaking on Building for a Resilient Future: How to Build Carbon Negative Housing. The meeting will be held in the Medford Library Big Room. April 29, 2026, at 10 a.m. PDT - Project Drawdown is having a very special Drawdown Ignite webinar, Finding Clarity, Courage, and Community in Climate Action: A Conversation with Dr. Katherine Wilkinson. Project Drawdown Director of Storytelling & Engagement Matt Scott will sit down with renowned climate leader and author Katharine Wilkinson, Ph.D., to explore the ideas behind her upcoming book, Climate Wayfinding: Healing Ourselves and the Planet We Call Home. More information and registration here. IntegralWorldview.com aggregates and curates information from many third-party sources and does not necessarily endorse all aspects of others' work. Still, we find their viewpoint provocative and interesting enough to encourage the reader to engage with and come to their understanding and actions, as they deem appropriate.

I have been impressed with the wisdom and theological depth of Philip Clayton every time I have heard him speak, but I have not yet read many of his books. Philip has been a prolific author for over 40 years; here's a list that is more complete than Amazon's . It is hard to know where to start to learn more. Luckily, Tripp Fuller's Substack post April 1, 2026: The Guy Who Convinced Me Doubt Isn’t a Bug offers a field guide to Philip Clayton’s work. The post also provides a complete transcript of the interview with Philip Clayton Here's a list of several more books currently in preparation: Now What? Rebuilding the Sacred from the Rubble of God , co-authored with Claudia Pearce Hope in an Age of Unbelief , with Steven Knapp The New Socialism: Sacred and Secular Roots of a Transformative Politics, co-authored with J ustin Heinzekehr

Where are all the young people looking for a spiritual home in a post-evangelical Christian world? They probably aren’t interested in organized religion, and they aren’t in churches that offer a tired liturgy from a bygone Christendom era or a faith that doesn’t embrace science! Some in the younger generation may listen to The Liturgists Podcast because it encourages lively, irreverent conversations exploring that awkward transition space between abandoning old understandings and traditions while looking for new, more meaningful expressions. The Liturgists Podcast is a Christian program that is dedicated to serving the “spiritually homeless and frustrated.”   “The Liturgists are creating a global conversation, blending science, art, and faith to explore the most vital issues of our time. In an age where the Church is mainly known for culture wars, we send a different message: there is room at the table for all who are hungry.” They offe r Advice For Anyone Who Has Ever Doubted Their Religion . The Liturgists are Mike McHargue (Science Mike) and Michael Gungor. Mike McHargue describes himself as a “Christian turned atheist turned Jesus follower, spiritual & skeptical.” His book Finding God in the Waves   tells the story of how his evangelical faith dissolved into atheism as he studied the Bible and science (the latest research in neuroscience, cosmology, and physics). A mystical experience led him back to faith with a new understanding of God. His Vimeo channel is best known for What Color is this Dress? Science Knows, which went viral on the internet a few years ago . Michael Gungor is a musician and co-founder. I like this hour-long YouTube video interview (above) of Richard Rohr by The Liturgists. “Art opens us up to mystical, non-dual knowledge and experiences.” Closing the door of one era is often not seen as the opening of another door of opportunity. There is a painfully awkward “hallway between the two doors” – a lack of understanding between two generational points of view. Those drawn into change experiment with new ideas and expressions of our common humanity, before something new emerges. It’s sort of like the gap in understanding and compassion, artfully portrayed in the Netflix movie Kodachrome , where broken relationships can be healed as new doors are opened. There is room at the table for everyone ~ Carrie Newcomer #postchristendom #Enneagram #Generations #Spirituality #meditation

Image from Light on Light publication of the e-book Awakening of Humanity and its use of VENN diagrams. In January 2024, Light on Light Press published a free, downloadable e-book, Awakening of Humanity: the Dawning of a New Earth and Unitive Age , written by Doug King, Kurt Johnson, PhD, and Jude Currivan, PhD, with a Spotlight by Robert Atkinson, PhD. An overview of the concepts presented in the book can be found in the Awakening Humanity   January 17, 2024 interview with Doug King and Jude Currivan   The book is a short 57-pages that proposes a " Universal Holomevement as the Unitative Narative." The Preface says: " This book offers a unitive reframing of the foundational elements, worldviews, and deeper ontological aspects of reality for understanding the universe as a true superorganism . Integrating theological, cosmological, philosophical, universal wisdom traditions, and interspiritual perspectives, the authors arrive at a universal identity of humanity consistent with our individual and collective roles within the wholeness-in-motion of the entire creation as an invitation that this will lead to further dialogue and exploration in our re-membering who we really are and who we can evolve to become ." The book starts with an Introduction by each of the authors and then uses 8 VENN diagrams to illustrate the key points: The Holomevement is an innately relation narrative. The Explicate order focuses on the diversity role and functions. The Implicate order includes identity, source, and is unified/integrated. The Holomovement as narrative is unfolding and informing. Our Universe began and continues with a universal informing process. Forms or things evolved into greater complexity, and the inherent fine-tuning of the holomovement organized into what we know as our Universe, our planetary home Gaia, and eventually our human ancestors and ourselves. The Holomovent as narrative is enfolding and transforming. The evolution of human consciousness relates to an enfolding process. The evolution of consciousness has been moving through history from earlier separation paradigms toward more and more integrated and interconnected paradigms. This enfolding movement is directionally oriented toward the Implicate order. The Holomovement as a narrative uses spiral dynamics to inform and transform. The spiral model traces the evolution of worldviews, which we can refer to as internal forms. These worldviews begin in the First Tier as separated and distinct identities among diverse cultures. The movement of consciousness into the Second Tier reveals these worldviews as part of one narrative, meaning they each become a necessary part of the whole. This wholistic approach to human identity models an enfolding process, as we now discuss in more detail. The concept of 'becoming" identifies the explicate order with form and the implicate order as formless. Steven J. Gould saw science and religion as two separate and non-related fields. The Science/Religion discussion, as outlined by Gould. evolved into a discussion of Science and Spirituality. This paradigm opens the door for discussion of universal values common to both fields of study, as well as a common desire for a Pro-Social approach to activism. The Holomovement blueprint addresses the role and function of narratives, whether scientific, like the Holomovement, or related to wisdom narratives, Indigenous narratives, etc. This trans-narrative approach detaches from identification with specific narratives or religious forms and points to our universal and interconnected identity as it relates to the Implicate order of our common source. The book concludes that: " the convergence of scientific breakthroughs with universal wisdom teachings and traditions as outlined herein is offering increasingly compelling evidence, supporting an emergent cosmological framework and a unitive narrative to inform and potentially underpin the ongoing conversations and explorations." I recommend that you add this short book to your reading list. I was initially somewhat confused when reading Doug King's website, Presence: A Global Conversation for a New Earth . as it lists books written by Max R. King (Doug's father) that don't seem compatible with Integral theology. It was helpful for me to listen to Tripp Fuller's podcast interview of Doug King . By way of background, Doug King's father, Max R. King   (1930-2923), was an author, scholar, and Bible teacher. Max was the founder of the school of thought known as "transmillennialism." He pioneered a field of theology  that he termed "covenant eschatology," which most call full preterism . In 1971, Max King published The Spirit of Prophec y , creating a stir in his conservative Church of Christ denomination and bringing the field of covenant eschatology to the forefront of biblical theology. He was also the author of The Cross and the Parousia of Christ: The Two Dimensions of One Age-Changing Eschaton   (1987) and Irrevocable: Paul's Radical Vision in Romans 9-11, and Why Christianity Can't Handle It   (2019). In 1989, Max expanded this work by founding a series of annual Presence conferences   and publishing the Presence Journal , leading to the formation of Presence as a 501 (c) nonprofit organization that "contributes to the developmental evolution of individual and collective spiritual consciousness." Since 2010, Doug King has been the President of Presence , leading this growing network to engage emergent, integral, and interspiritual organizations and idea leaders in shared goals for the common good. Links to some earlier Rogue Valley Voice blog posts: Holomovement https://www.integralworldview.com/post/the-holomovement Kurt Johnson https://www.integralworldview.com/post/interspirituality-the-future Kurt Johnson https://www.integralworldview.com/post/spiralling-up Jude Currivanhttps:// www.integralworldview.com/post/wholeworld-view

"The EcoCiv Institute (EcoCiv) first emerged as a vision of the scholar and activist John B. Cobb, Jr.  A professor at the Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology and a leader in ecological thinking. Prof. Cobb wrote the founding work in eco-theology in 1971, Over the decades that followed, Cobb published over 50 books, inspired two generations of scholars and activists, founded multiple organizations, and organized scores of conferences, most notably through the Claremont Center for Process Studies (CPS). - a nonprofit think-and-action tank, now based in Portland, Oregon, that conducts interdisciplinary research and education to cultivate holistic understanding for human and planetary flourishing." The non-profit Institute for Ecological Civilization was initially incubated within the Center for Process Studies. Founded by Philip Clayton and Wm. Andrew Schwart z, the Institute for Ecological Civilization, was created to be a catalyst for advancing the vision of ecological civilization worldwide. Its first event, “Ecology and Community,” was held in Fall 2015. Many of the signature features of the organization were seeded and developed during this first event: carrying out preparatory research, convening experts, facilitating visioning and back-casting, and producing a roadmap for action." Visionary thinker, President   Philip Clayton l ed EcoCiv   to expand and deepen its mission at the intersections of environment and humanity. With several decades of experience in university-based research, teaching, and lecturing, Philip conceptualized all EcoCiv’s projects and ensures their mission. In particular, he helped project leaders think about relevant intersectional societal changes for their projects. Clayton holds a PhD from Yale University; has held guest professorships at Harvard, University of Cambridge, and University of Munich; and is the author or editor of several dozen books and some 300 articles on science, ethics, and religion. In 2025 the non-profit changed its name to the Ecocivilization Coalition with a new website and visionary author Jeremy Lent as new Acting President. "Their new name marks a deeper commitment to global transformation:  Supporting grassroots movements  Amplifying system-wide change  Building a life-affirming future, together "Jeremy Lent is an author and speaker whose work investigates the underlying causes of our civilization’s existential crisis and explores pathways toward a life-affirming future. His 2922 award-winning book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning , examines the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day. His 2021 award-winning The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe, offers a solid foundation for an integrative worldview that could lead humanity to a sustainable, flourishing future. He has written extensively about the vision and specifics of an ecological civilization, and is the founder of the Deep Transformation Network , a global community exploring pathways toward a life-affirming future on a regenerated Earth. Follow him on his author website." Jeremy Lent has a new book, Ecocivilization:​Making a World that Works for All , coming May 26, 2026 "Our economies must change with our changing climate to ensure a sustainable future for all. What could it look like to design an economy that simultaneously serves people and planet? This was the question addressed in April 2024 at the inaugural California Just Economy Summit that EcoCiv co-hosted with the California Wellbeing Economies Coalition in Sacramento, California. #Ecocivilization   #SystemsChange   #ClimateJustice   #GlobalCoalition   #JeremyLent   #EcoCiv

While the current U. S. Administration is calling climate change a hoax, Columbia Climate School in New York City offers   7 Climate Experts on What We Can Still Do to Fight Climate Change : "We need more grassroots initiatives. Meet people old school–style in cafes or at local businesses or nonprofit organizations, spend time getting to know them, and come up with collective plans for sustainable living,” ~ Radhika Iyengar "The most important thing you can do about climate change is to talk about it." Join a climate group to magnify their impact... urge local news outlets to report on climate. ~ Katharine Hayhoe “Support local food systems and farmers,” ~ Cynthia Rosenzweig Work for clean energy locally - "Actively support wind or solar energy projects that are being proposed in your communities." Encourage local officials to pass pro-climate laws or consider running for office themselves. ~ Michael Gerrard "Attend the meetings of little-known state agencies or commissions that hold power over the energy transition." ~ Bill McKibben "Petition your legislators, your representatives in state assemblies, and your members of Congress and Senators. Write letters and emails,” ~ Bill Nye “We all have voices, and we must use them now. Speak up and speak out.” ~ Michael Mann Launched in 2020, the Columbia Climate School is taking bold action on climate change and related sustainability challenges. The Climate School’s vision is a healthy planet that enables just and prosperous societies to thrive. Center for Climate Systems Research , Center for Sustainable Development , cs highlights , Cynthia Rosenzweig , Michael Gerrard , Radhika Iyengar , Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

Wikipedia defines " ecological civilization " as "the hypothetical concept that describes the alleged final goal of social and environmental reform within a given society. It implies that the changes required in response to global climate disruption and social injustices are so extensive as to require another form of human civilization, one based on ecological principles." Deep Trans f ormation for Ecological Civilization was a forum held May 25-27, 2023. It was the 16th  I nternational Forum on Ecological Civilization ( an annual conference series in Claremont, CA, established in 2006) and the 5th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization.   "The largest international conference held on the theme 'ecological civilization” ( Seizing an Alternative: Toward an Ecological Civilization ) took place at Pomona College in June 2015, bringing together roughly 2,000 participants from around the world and featuring such leaders in the environmental movement as Bill McKibben , Vandana Shiva , John B. Cobb , Jr. , Wes Jackson , and Sheri Liao . This was held in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Ecological Civilization . ( part of the Claremont ECO Forum ) Out of the Seizing an Alternative conference, Philip Clayton and Wm. Andrew Schwartz co-founded the Institute for Ecological Civilization (EcoCiv) and co-authored the 2019 book What is Ecological Civilization: Crisis, Hope, and the Future of the Planet , The Ecospiritual Hub   is an online resource for "Those Who Take Nature to Heart" organized by Jack M Greene  as part of the Deep Transformation Network . The tagline of the DTNetwork reads: "A global community to explore pathways to an ecological civilization." For an explanation of " What is an Ecological Civilization?" see Jeremy Lent 's article published in the February 2021 edition of YES! Magazine . Lent is also the author of the 2023 book, The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe . The Ecospiritual Hub   is an online resource for "Those Who Take Nature to Heart" organized by Jack M Greene   as part of the Deep Transformation Network . I associate the term "ecological civilization" with David Korten' s October 7, 2022, article We the People Are All in This Together in Yes! Magazine that references his 2021 Club of Rome paper, Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence . David Korten co-founder of YES! Media and president of the   Living Economies Forum , He is the author of influential books, including When Corporations Rule the World and “ Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth . For a different view on ecological civilization from a Chinese perspective see Alexander Ayertey Odonkor's August 20, 2022 article "Ecological civilization: All-embracing Vision For the Global Futur e" from China Global Television Network ( CGTN)