On September 12, 2020 we hosted the first in a series of gatherings to discuss the current social protests against corruption in Bulgaria and the vision guiding us. In support of civil society efforts to free our country from the deep-seated corruption, summed up eloquently by European Parliament member Clare Daly[1], the gathering opened a […]
What World Do We Want and What U.N. Do We Need?
This is the question that has been posed to 80,000 people so far, from 191 countries, by a committee of the United Nations in preparation for celebrating its 75th anniversary in September 2020. In this watershed moment, as Under-Secretary-General and Special Advisor at the UN Fabrizio Hoshschield-Drummond described it, when the Covid 19 pandemic revealed […]
The passing of Nelson Mandela
A Personal Perspective: The Contrast between Nelson Mandela’s Embodiment of Social Health and the Commitment of Governing Institutions to Politics-As-Usual. When Nelson Mandela passed on, the world mourned the loss of a heroic figure who embodied a one-man struggle for social justice and a compassionate society for all. His life was an epitome of social […]
Core Connections that Sustain
Understanding Resilience: Core Connections that Sustain In your beautiful continent of Africa, which has seen the dawn of human civilization, and has, in modern times, been torn by so many deep conflicts, any conservation work must require tremendous resilience. As of 2011, according to http://www.globalissues.org/issue/83/conflicts-in-africa, there have been over 9 million refugees and internally displaced […]
Tearing the veils of injustice
We live in the midst of historical changes of such pace and magnitude, that for the majority of people they are simply hard to grasp and relate to. Yet, however we name these changes for ourselves, I believe they are pointing us toward the emergence of spiritual justice in the context of a shrinking world, […]
Social Health and the Heart-Mind Split
We live at a time of transition. The twentieth century, which has been recognized as the most turbulent in the history of the human race, has come to a close. This past century has seen an old world dying and a new and not yet clearly understood world struggling to be born. At this threshold, […]
Building a healthy social environment
What would we consider a healthy social environment? Even though wisdom traditions have had a lot to say about what may be an ideal society, that question was first asked in scientific terms by the World Health Organization in 1947, in recognition of the fact that individual physical and mental health alone are not enough […]
How to make sense of 4 families slain in 4 days
By Jesse Washington, Associated Press national writer It was a chilling series of horrors: four mass killings involving four different families, in four states over four bloody days, leaving 14 adults and seven children dead. Criminologists say this tragic cluster was nothing more than random chance, not a sign of growing violence in America. Yet […]