Frances Moore Lappé – The Evolution of Living Democracy
Duncan and Frances cover a number of key transitions of the last four decades, and why we are again now in "the best of times and the worst of times", the opening lines of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities. These are times of strife that require both a revolutionary and evo... Read More
Michael Dowd – The Great Story – the Epic of Evolution
In this age of uncertainty, fragmentation, and even despair, people yearn for certainty, but too often settle for adolescent polarizing, exclusivistic worldviews and understandings of reality that we see reflected in our time of penetrating globalization in tremendous political a... Read More
Vine Deloria, Jr. – Evolution, Spirit, and Indigenous Mind
This dialogue is one of a three-part series Vine Deloria, Jr. and I did on the occasion of the last of his books to be published during his lifetime, Evolution, Creationism, and Other Modern Myths -- released at approximately the same time Vine received the prestigious Wallace St... Read More
Steve McIntosh – Part 2 of Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
In Part 1 of this two-part dialogue we laid the historical and conceptual foundations of our collective evolutionary project, not unlike those before us who labored to co-create the great physical architectural hymns such as the vedic temples, gothic cathedrals, etc. Now in Part ... Read More
Steve McIntosh – Part 1 of Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution
Looking at history, we can see that large-scale social progress has almost always been made through the emergence of new sets of values and expanded perspectives that provide a new view of the world, "transcending and including" the most enduring of the values of prior worldviews... Read More
Marianne Williamson – The Gift of Change – Part 2
In this Part 2, Duncan and Marianne elaborate on the need referred to in Part 1 for each of us to appreciate and support one another’s "greatness" (or innate divinity), rather than to look outside ourselves for a charismatic teacher, CEO, leader, etc. In much the same manner as... Read More
Marianne Williamson – The Gift of Change – Part 1
In this inspiring and wide-ranging conversation, Duncan and Marianne dialogue about Marianne’s early life and her eventual grounding in the ecumenical vision expressed through The Course in Miracles. As with Larry Dossey, MD in his recent book The Extraordinary Healing Power of... Read More
Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Biology of Transcendence: Part 3 – The Evolving Heart
In Part 3 of this continually interesting three-part comprehensive dialogue, Duncan and Joseph Chilton Pearce explore recent scientific discoveries regarding the cellular, neural, and "field" aspects of the human heart, which confirm the early prediction of Rudolf Steiner nearly ... Read More
Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Biology of Transcendence: Part 2 – The Evolving Brain
In Part 2 of this immensely interesting three-part comprehensive dialogue, Duncan and Joseph Chilton Pearce explore the evolution of the adaptive human brain with the appearance of the pre-frontal lobes, going beyond the reptilian, limbic (emotional), and neo-cortex tri-partite b... Read More
Joseph Chilton Pearce – The Biology of Transcendence: Part 1 – Culture vs. Civilization
In Part 1 of this immensely interesting three-part comprehensive dialogue, Duncan and Joseph Chilton Pearce explore the themes that have permeated Joe’s astounding body of work, beginning with The Magical Child, The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Evolution’s End, leading up to the ... Read More