Wholeness of Timeless Building Design Embracing People and Place in the Web of Nature by Linda Sechrist   There is a process through which the order of a building or a town grows out directly from the inner nature of the people, and the animals, and plants, and matter, which are in it. ~ Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building   According to internationally known architect Christopher Alexander [1936-2022], there is a timeless way of building. It is the same today

Archetype I truly believe that many are awakening and becoming increasingly aware of what’s happening around us, socially, politically, ecologically, and spiritually.  Nobel prize winning physicist Ilya Prigonine writes of dissipative structures and emergence. This is a centerpiece of chaos theory later to be named complexity theory. Things tend to spiral out of control and fall apart.  This may be thought of in terms of the global polycrisis facing humanity, or more simply,

by Douglas Bonar Remember when you were a kid and told your parents that you just wanted to go outside and play for a while longer? “I...

Awakening to the Evolutionary Impulse to Form Community by Linda Sechrist Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh’s suggestion that the next Buddha...

Point / Counterpoint Point What is so disheartening in today’s world is that main-stream media pays little attention to the polycrisis ...

By Linda Sechrist; Natural Awakenings True love is not something reserved exclusively for soulmates, couples, children, friends or...

Taylor became the witness to her stroke, which initially left her unable to talk, walk, read, write or remember anything prior to that occur