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Humanity’s Phase Shift
An interview with civilization theorist Daniel Schmachtenberger



Daniel Schmachtenberger is a futurist, evolutionary philosopher and strategist, and social engineer. This conversation with David Fuller of Rebel Wisdom looks at the growing civilisation-level crisis that we are beginning to see around us, and looks at what a genuine ‘phase shift’ for human progress might look like. Rebel Wisdom is a platform for the biggest ideas around.
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Eating As Political And Spiritual Action

By Maía — December 2011


Take an orange and  hold the globe of it in your two hands. Breath the deep fragrance.  

Do you know the eye-shaped leaves of  the  orange tree?  Shining dark green, bursting with life.  Break open the  flesh  of the orange. The flesh glistens, makes the mouth water.

Bite into  it.  

Close your  eyes:  you are eating the earth, the water,  the  air,  the light.

Maybe for some time you’ve been feeling a call to change your relationship to food …perhaps by joining a non-profit food coop, or by starting to shop more often at a natural food store or at your local farmer’s market, or even by growing some of your own vegetables and herbs.   

But can  we change our  relation to  food even more?

 

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