by Michael Lerner | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Do you know about the DIY Movement? The Maker Movement? The Great Re-Skilling Movement? If you are like me, these movements (DIY stands for “do it yourself”) may at best be at the edge of awareness. I’ve come to know some remarkable young people in...
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...
