A deep dive into life-coherent peace, structural violence, the civil commons, and the shift from the money sequence to the life sequence. This episode asks whether peace is merely the absence of war — or the organized protection and expansion of life capacity. Read More
Welcome to Toward Life-Knowledge, an audio pathway through a Life-Knowledge Commons for healing, wisdom, peace, economy, ecology, and civilizational repair. Read More
This spoken monologue is adapted from my 2017 article, Sitting in the Right Pew but Wrong Church, written shortly after encountering the work of philosopher John McMurtry and his life-value onto-axiology.
The central message is simple but urgent: humanity’s mistake was not that we valued growth, but that we confused the growth of money with the growth of life. True economy means the wise stewardship of the household — our bodies, communities, ecosystems, and Mother Earth. A civilization becomes life-coherent only when its religions, politics, economics, sciences, laws, and technologies are answerable to the conditions that make life possible.
This video is a call to move from money-value accumulation to life-capital regeneration; from scarcity and violence to care, provision, and right relationship; from “Take care” to “Give care.”
Dedicated in gratitude to Professor John McMurtry, whose work on life-value, universal human life necessities, and the civil commons offers an anchor, compass, and steer for a more life-coherent world.
This white paper investigates why the core principles of peace, health, harmony, and unity — though universally cherished — are consistently undermined by prevailing political, economic, and cultural systems. Drawing on the frameworks of life-value onto-axiology, biosemiotics, and regenerative systems thinking, the paper argues that these life-coherent principles threaten the dominant logic of money-value sequencing and divide-and-rule governance. It exposes how extractive systems profit from fragmentation, illness, conflict, and disconnection, and how peace and coherence are rendered structurally subversive. Through philosophical inquiry, systemic critique, and global case studies, this paper offers a regenerative alternative: a civilizational shift toward structures that prioritize wholeness, relational trust, mutual regeneration, and ontological belonging.
Pope Francis’s final Easter address transcends ecclesial tradition to emerge as a sacred transmission for a fractured world. Framed within the symbolic power of the resurrection, the address weaves geopolitical compassion with moral clarity, offering a vision for global coherence. This white paper analyzes the semiotic and systemic architecture of his speech through the lens of Life-Value Onto-Axiology (LVOA), unveiling how resurrection serves as both a spiritual archetype and a regenerative design principle for governance, economy, and social transformation. The Pope’s words challenge us to re-align with the deeper grammar of life and become living signs of coherence amid systemic fragmentation.
Spiraling Grace is a transdisciplinary, poetic, and practical exploration of the spiral as the universal pattern of coherence embedded in all levels of life. Drawing from wisdom traditions, regenerative sciences, sacred geometry, and systems theory, the book reveals how the spiral offers a living map for healing, transformation, and return.
At the heart of this work lies a triadic pattern — Being, Becoming, and Belonging — aligned with the virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love, and bearing the fruits of Peace, Wisdom, and Compassion. Through these lenses, Spiraling Grace reframes ancient teachings and modern insights into a unified framework that honors both the mystical and the measurable.
From early chapters on Christ-consciousness and Taoist flow, to later explorations of biosemiotics, fractals, and regenerative culture, the spiral is shown not as metaphor alone, but as a sacred logic of reality. The book culminates in Spiral Praxis — tools and rituals to embody grace in daily life — and in visions for spiral communities, economies, and cultures rooted in mutual belonging and rhythmic renewal.
This work invites readers not to climb toward perfection, but to spiral into wholeness — to walk the path of sacred return, again and again, with greater coherence, compassion, and grace.
In the annals of moral philosophy and human rights advocacy, few voices resonate as powerfully as that of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. His unwavering commitment to justice and equality provided profound insights into the human condition and the ethical imperatives that arise when confronting oppression. Among his many impactful statements, one stands out for its stark clarity: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
This statement holds particular resonance when applied to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a deeply entrenched struggle marked by significant power imbalances, historical grievances, and ongoing injustices. Understanding and applying Tutu’s wisdom in this context is crucial for anyone seeking to promote genuine peace and justice in the region.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s profound wisdom compels us to recognize that neutrality in the face of injustice is not a stance of impartiality but one of complicity. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this means acknowledging the significant power imbalances and systemic injustices that perpetuate the suffering of Palestinians. By taking a stand for justice, promoting equitable solutions, and supporting human rights, we can work towards genuine peace and reconciliation in this deeply divided region. Only through active engagement and a commitment to justice can we honor the legacy of leaders like Tutu and move towards a future where both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and dignity.
It all started last week, when I had another flare of my recurrent joint problems, which are usually triggered from stress at the workplace that appears to be going from bad to worse. I have been trying to wean myself off steroids for the inflammation in my joints over the year, but each time I… Read More
The TRANSCEND Method uses dialogues with all parties to identify their goals, testing their legitimacy, and for visions of a new social reality meeting legitimate goals. Diagnoses focus on conflict and trauma, prognoses without or with intervention, therapy on visions of solution and conciliation; proposed, propagated and realized.
Causality is, as often said, not a law but the form of a law; a discourse used to bring some understanding to a chaotic world. In that discourse the two words “cause” (C) and “effect” (E) are subject to rules of speech: E cannot precede C in time. And the connective relating them, an arrow, like C–>E, translated as “C causes/leads to/is followed by E”, or some synonyms, is two-way.
