by Michael Lerner | Jul 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
A Brief for the Defense Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies are not starving someplace, they are starving somewhere else. With flies in their nostrils. But we enjoy our lives because that’s what God wants. Otherwise the mornings before summer...
by Michael Lerner | Jun 5, 2018 | Commonweal, Uncategorized
May 30, 2018 Dear Commonweal Friends: I hope this Spring Letter finds you well. We live in unimaginable times. The forces working against freedom and the earth are global: climate change, war, terrorism, authoritarianism, and more. I return to the global challenge...
by Michael Lerner | Apr 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: My last posting to you March 12 was a working paper called Courage in Dark Times: Choosing Resilience in the Face of Global Systems Collapse. It was reprinted by the Health and Environmental Funders Network as a newsletter and on its website....
by Michael Lerner | Mar 12, 2018 | Uncategorized
Choosing Resilience in the Face of Global Systems Collapse This is a working paper. It is in a period of rapid evolution as of 3/12/18. Comments are welcome, though I cannot respond personally to all. What Future? What does the future look like? We cannot know. To the...
by Michael Lerner | Feb 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
I’m reading a slender volume by Claudio Narano—Ennea-Type Structures: Self Analysis for the Seeker. Naranjo is a Chilean psychiatrist, now in his 80s, who lives in Berkeley. He is a founding interpreter of the enneagram of personality. He was a close friend of Carlos...
by Michael Lerner | Jan 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dear New School Friends: Thank you for being so generous in supporting The New School in 2017. We depend on you. You have been most generous. What can I say about the new year? The political drama continues, but the culture is responding. The #MeToo movement is an...