Last month, I gave a talk and workshop on 'Reimagining Policymaking as a Community-wide Cultural Practice' at the Practical Threefolding Conference in Viroqua, WI.

Here are the outlines of both presentations: open.substack.com/pub/michaeldra…

Last month, I gave a talk and workshop on 'Reimagining Policymaking as a Community-wide Cultural Practice' at the Practical Threefolding Conference in Viroqua, WI.

Here are the outlines of both presentations: open.substack.com/pub/michaeldra…

For anyone who's enjoyed the 'Coming Home' YouTube channel, which shares stories of Near-Death-Experiences (NDEs), the creator (& PCC alum!) has just launched a Substack to be a place for scholars, scientists, and researchers to share their work.

➡️cominghomechannel.substack.com

“The sun is following us.' —La Chimera

Quick FYI for Thursday: this is not sponsored by Republic of Pie, it's just where we're meeting, likely out front or the front room depending on seating. I also plan to purchase a pie for the table to share.

'Les citoyens veulent être associés à la décision. Je suis convaincu que la démocratie délibérative est la pour recoller les morceaux. La démocratie n'est pas que voter aux élections. '

Surreal: #CCFV citizens have to help the Minister of Democratic Renewal imagine how we could use sortition in other ways throughout the system. It's as if she is discovering the topic. As usual the citizens are patient and respectful, even as the level of amateurism is insulting

“The first thing [5-year-old Fatma Nabhan] ... asked me when I saw her in the hospital after the operation was, ‘Will I grow a new leg?’” [Nabhan's mother] said. 'I told her, ‘We’ll get you the most beautiful leg,’ ... I couldn’t stop crying.”
latimes.com/world-nation/s…

LA friends,

What is happening in our world, our city, & inside us? What can we contribute to bring about something new?

If you want to explore these themes in dialogue join me @ Republic of Pie Thu 5/2 from 7-8:30PM.

No agenda, just your & others' experience. All are welcome!

'The intuition that something new is necessary for the future of humanity and that it must come about is already the beginning of realization.

The most important task is the transmission of intuition… One must work to realize it…

The new age would be when we pass from taking

'One time, Booker asked me about himself ... we're walking and people had been saying some things about him that wasn't favorable but it wasn't bad, catastrophically or anything like that.

And he asks, 'Well, what's wrong with me?'

And I couldn't think of one thing that was

'LA4LA is modeled after a similar program in Atlanta that has raised $150 million from philanthropic groups, corporations and individuals. The program provides loans and grants to developers of mixed-income housing that includes affordable units.

Sarah Kirsch, managing director

A few thoughts from Eric Voegelin on the problem of pluralism and realism, especially in regards to what he calls “the meditative complex' of consciousness in its relation to the reality it seeks to understand, here summarized in 18 easily digestible points:

1. Consciousness in

The similarities btw the methods of some citizens' assemblies & Goethe's 'delicate empiricism' are striking. In many cases, they support all participants to consciously exercise in sequence their imagination & reason to make better decisions for their community.