At A Crossroads Before Critical Mass
The terrible and terrifying conditions of wind and fire devastating parts of California are showing us what happens when Earth Trauma approaches critical mass. We are not yet at global…
David Sparenberg
NOW-WAR and the SAKE of LIFE
“the wound of possibility” Soren Kierkegaard Earth is our home; Earth is our origin. There is not now any more than there has ever been a single, sane human being…
Entitlement of the Gun
I write these words in an agony of urgency. Already this year, 2019, there have been 31 mass shootings in the USA; more than in any other nation. Over half…
Sufi
Each expression of beauty is an act of love. Every manifestation of love is an act of beauty. To make a warrior’s choice in the clarity of human evolution is…
Independence July 4, 2019
Today we will name The Day of Peace. And when tomorrow becomes today The Day of Social Justice. When the weekend rolls around first will be The Day of…
A Clarifying Note on the Magnitude of Earth Crisis
Much of my creative work these days (and indeed for decades before) is to address the mounting and sometimes engulfing Earth Crisis within which we are all entangled; which threatens…
AS WE SAY – Have a good day
A day without hatred or fear a day without prejudice, suspicion or persecution a day without being lied to being swindled or mislead a day without bullying, without abuse, violation…
What The Climate Crisis Is About
Listen: it isn’t about me about ego and it isn’t about you your property income taxes but about EARTH about life about spirit and grandchildren about seven generations and seven…
American Gun
Another mass shooting in America! They are so frequent they are anticipated. I favor stick gun control, and the application of the Second Amendment of the Constitution should be challenged…
The Rise And Fall Of
When a house is on fire an alarm must be sounded. An alarm is not always sounded solely out of fear. Sometimes an alarm must be sounded out of love,…
Satyagraha
Truth-force, what is it? Truth is the expressed porousness and the vulnerability of soul, in the same way that soul is the humble courage, non-exploitative perception, reverence and gratitude of…
The Condition
Love, let us never forget that there are people in this troubled world, men especially, who are very different from you and I—who think abstractly and pride themselves on the…
Code
To fall in love outward (Robinson Jeffers) is a major accomplishment in the Great Work of planetary renewal. This is especially significant (and challenging) in a commercialized society possessively enforcing…
Renewal
Look! There at the corner, the old man is crossing the children. All the saints and gods and goddesses of India are dancing around them. Pan is dancing. Nymphs and…
What The Sufi Said
In your heart of hearts, a heart-shaped mirror. Mirror of peace between wings of fire. In that living crucible—a gleam of blue light. Light is your soul: Angel of Life.…
Solidarity With Earth And Humanity
In the spring-early summer of my passage from 17 to 18 years old, Albert Camus helped to solidify my opposition to the war in Vietnam. Camus has never been far…
Paris Quartet
One: An angry, malcontent species is making an angry, uninhabitable planet. A violent species is making a violent, uninhabitable planet. Political power craves greater power. Flexes pleasure in being above…
Resistance
The first response to inhumanity is shame. The sustained response—resistance. The way of compassion embraces both compassionate denouncement and compassionate affirmation. Compassionate denouncement deconstructs life denying, denigrating and destroying wrongdoing,…
Annual Subscription
Join Countercurrents Annual Fund Raising Campaign and help us
