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Our Writings
Since Life Itself began with have written hundreds of articles, here we compile the very best of our work so you don't have to go digging.
Our Philosophy
- Founding Manifesto of Life Itself 2015
- Crisis: A Wise Response 2020
- Critical Point: Our Reason for Existance in a Nutshell 2021
- Cultivating an Emerging Paradigm 2022
- Letting Go of Being Enlightened 2020
- Latest Why We Exist SCQH 2023
- Nine Theses 2017
- No suffering is meaningless if it compels us to act: watch our latest film in response to Coronavirus 2020
- Pragmatic Utopianism 2020
- Reason for our Existence 2017
- Re-mythologizing Technology 2018
- Ritual and the Return to Mystery 2019
- The Middle Way: What We're About 2017
- The Way We Live Now 2017
- Transforming the Narrative as a Route to Social Transformation SCQH 2020
- What are we up to really 2019
Community
- Deliberately Developmental Spaces: a key to addressing the Metacrisis? 2021
- "Home: Between a shelter and a cage" - an exhibition at the Berlin Hub 2021
- Praxis Hub Residencies: Being at home in troubled times 2021
- What is Conscious Coliving 2021
Wisdom
- Bridging the Wisdom Gap 2020
- Contemplative Activism: A Primer 2020
- Do We Need Wiser Education? 2019
- Tending the seeds of a "new" culture-Hope, History, and Humility 2022
- The Case for Contemplative Activism: why, why now, and what are we offering? 2019
- The State Needs to be Re-Invented. A State with Wisdom at its Heart 2017
- Vipassana Meditation: A Sensational Detachment 2022
- Wise Booklist 2019
- Wise Food 2020
- Wise Metrics 2021
- Wise Tea 2020
Ontology and Culturology
- An expedition to explore the new land of “culture-making” 2020
- Can digital businesses thrive and have a mindful culture? 2018
- Ontological Politics - A Preface 2020
- Self-Burning Confronts Us With Radical Concern, If We Let It 2022
- Social Paradigm: Literature Review 2021
- Social Paradigm Shifts: A Pre-Survey of the Literature 2021
- Techno-solutionism: tech alone can solve our wicked problems 2017
- The Ills of Capitalism, the Possibilities of Abundance and the Limits of Land 2018
- Two Year Olds Playing with Kalashnikovs - Humanity in the Age of AI 2019
Ecosystem Mapping
Articles relevant to our initiative to map the Metamodern ecosystem.
- Adam Brock (Regenerate Change) - A Conversation 2021
- Alnoor Ladha - A Conversation 2021
- Conscious Evolution (Robert Cobbold) - A Conversation 2021
- Joe Lightfoot - A Conversation 2021
- Romy Kraemer (Guerrilla Foundation) - A Conversation 2021
- Mapping Metamodern: Alternative Economics 2022
- Mapping Metamodern: Alternative Governance 2022
- Mapping Metamodern: Buddhism 2022
- Mapping Metamodern: Permaculture 2022
- Mapping Metamodern: Psychotherapy 2022
- Mapping Metamodern: What is Metamodernism 2022
- Mapping Metamodern: Zen 2022
Book Notes
- Creating a Life Together by Diana Leafe Christian - Summary and Notes 2021
- Ken Wilber, Integral Spirituality (Notes) 2019
- Notes on David Sloan Wilson's Darwin's Cathedral 2019
- Notes on McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary 2018
- Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux - Summary and Notes 2021
- Superforecasting, Tetlock and Gardner (Notes) 2020
