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Distraction, surveillance, peak oil and the end of the Internet

By Allan Stromfeldt Christensen | October 6, 2014

NYC in blackout

Let me be upfront about one thing: I don't particularly want to be writing a blog, from which this article comes. But as I am an unpublished writer completing his first book in this early twenty-first century of ours, for what should be obvious reasons, I am. Why don't I particularly want to be writing a blog? For one, I'm not a very big fan of the Internet, and beginning … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy Tagged With: collapse, Edward Snowden, Internet addiction, NSA, peak oil

In the face of collapse, neither polyanna nor doomer

By Dianne Monroe | February 24, 2014

collapsed pyramid

Carolyn Baker writes with passion, insight and courage about a topic that most people turn away from – the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspect of what she and many others call "collapse." Collapse is the convergence in our times of economic unraveling, resource depletion and human created climate instability that could bring the destruction of the world economy, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Barbara Ehrenreich, Carolyn Baker, collapse, emotions, Joanna Macy, positive thinking

Staying on the train

By Carolyn Baker | January 27, 2014

time flies sign

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end. -- Rabindranath Tagore Nearly every day I speak with people who are confused, bewildered, disoriented, or conversely, extraordinarily clear about what is happening to them. A few years, months, or weeks earlier, they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: climate change, collapse, Fukushima, near-term extinction, peak oil, Rumi, Tagore

Resilience begins with the heart: All roads lead to grief

By Carolyn Baker | October 7, 2013

Photo: kaiyen/Flickr.

PART 3 OF 5. This article is the third part of a five-part series by Carolyn Baker on dealing with the emotions aroused by the collapse of industrial civilization, “What Collapse Feels Like.” Read the entire series here as it becomes available. According to the Johns Hopkins Medicine website, “CHF [congestive heart failure] occurs most frequently in those over age 60 and is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: "What Collapse Feels Like", Carl Jung, collapse, grief

Fukushima, climate change, near-term extinction: Resignation vs. surrender

By Carolyn Baker | August 26, 2013

sunset

All things die and all things live forever; But our task is to die, To die making roads, Roads over the sea. -- Antonio Machado Recently a reader of my website asked me to clarify the difference between resignation and surrender. When faced with catastrophic climate change, near-term extinction, and the worst emission of radiation in the history of the world from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: Antonio Machado, collapse, Fukushima, nuclear power, psychology

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