by Michael Lerner | Feb 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
I write from the town of Langley on Whidbey Island north of Seattle. I just attended the Third Winter Gathering at the Whidbey Institute. The Gathering is led by my long-time friends Rick Ingrasci and Peggy Taylor. Life partners, they have led the Summer Gathering at...
by Michael Lerner | Jan 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
“The room was crackling with interest—did you feel it?” my friend Jan Broek asked me. I did. The occasion was a New School conversation with physicist Tom Nash about the nature of the universe. I expected an audience of ten—but forty New School friends showed up....
by Michael Lerner | Aug 5, 2011 | Resilience, Uncategorized
Some preliminary notes A friend suggested to me the other day that reverence might be at the heart of our work. She proposed that there is a relationship between reverence and resilience. I asked what she meant by reverence. She said that she meant reverence for life....
by Michael Lerner | Aug 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein A unifying theory of the universe is the holy grail of modern physics. Einstein sought but did not find it. The great Cambridge mathematician Stephen Hawking and CalTech...
by Michael Lerner | Aug 4, 2011 | Uncategorized
THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The...
