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When I was a child, my grandmother found another one of her grandchildren stomping on ants he found below a rock. She got upset, told us: “Come here around the fire and pay attention, I have something to ask you: What do you think would happen if our winged relatives would suddenly disappear?” For children […]

What a pleasure to see the Politics of Being on Mexican TV! And to take it to the conclave on Sustainable and Resilient Communities of the Civil Society Engagement Group for the G20 (C20) – presided by spiritual leader Amma, as well as at the Beyond Growth conference organized by the European Parliament in Brussels. […]

Education Rather than filling brains with knowledge, the purpose of our education system should be to support the awakening and actualization of children’s true being. It should help them to grow as authentic human beings—in all their dimensions: physical, emotional, aesthetic, moral, intellectual, and spiritual. While it is traditionally feared that the focus on individual characters […]

Governance Democracy needs to evolve beyond its current form of “adversary democracy”, in which political parties compete for power, spurring polarization and paralysis. This implies a deepening of democracy through greater citizens participation – through a more direct, deliberative and digital democracy, integrated to representative democracy – a better balance between competence and popular control, […]

Economy Our economic systems need to be redesigned to ensure the satisfaction of everyone’s basic material needs and support the expression of our full potential – including spiritual, artistic, or cultural content and experiences, as well as care works – within ecological boundaries. All the current economic institutions need to evolve to serve this vision, […]