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Prologue
How I stumbled into my evolutionary epiphany ix
Introduction 1
Poem: Stardust settles on earth to learn 8
I. Reflections on Evolution and Creation 9
1. Evolution 2.0: A Big History that embraces
all the sciences 11
Poem: Since the Big Bang never stopped 28
2. The Big CPU 29
Poem: The same golden force 35
II. Reflections on Evolutionary Activism 37
3. What is the evolutionary activist worldview? 39
Poem: Showing up 42
4. My evolution in to evolutionary activism 43
Prayer: A prayer of evolutionary affirmation 48
5. What is evolutionary activism? 49
Poem: Riotous meadow people 54
6. What makes evolutionary activism different
from other forms of activism? 55
Poem: Star story children 65
7. Learning to be evolution 66
Poem: Calling of Creation 82
8. Becoming evolution's conscious weavers 83
Poem: First of all 92
III. Reflections on Strategy and Tactics 95
9. Learning from our evolutionary past into
our evolutionary future 97
Poem: That Great Evolving Power 112
10. A "Big Story" evolutionary fitness program 114
Poem: A larger force works through us 121
11. The strategic synergy of individual and
collective 122
Poem: Journey power story questions 128
12. The evolutionary role of conversation 130
Poem: The facilitator 144
13. Transformational leverage 146
Poem: Life like spring 153
IV. Reflections on Evolutionary Grace and
Appreciation 155
14. Goodness Gracious: evolutionary integrity
and our engagement with life 157
Poem: A powerful Grace 162
15. Active appreciation 164
Poem: The whole knows 170
V. Reflections on Crises and Democracy 173
16. Six degrees of separation from reality 175
Poem: Mother Earth's message 180
17. Something bigger than Life is trying to work through us 184
Prayer: Prayer for conscious evolution 196
18. Building wise democracy as crises emerge 197
Poem: We are on the edge 211
19. Democracy and the evolution of societal
intelligence 213
Poem: Ultimately global catastrophe
is about life 221
VI. Reflections on Systems 225
20. Caring and systemic awareness: Does
compassion itself need to evolve? 227
Poem: What we long for 238
21. What makes a social system conscious? 239
Poem: You can't hide anymore 248
VII. Reflections on an Evolutionary Activist
Movement 249
22. A rationale and guidance for nonviolence
as a basis for conscious evolutionary activism 251
Poem: Together at the leading edge 268
23. Five areas to attend to when building an
evolutionary activism movement 271
Poem: Sunshine being meditation 274
24. Imagining an activist movement for the
conscious evolution of social systems 276
Poem: To Martin Luther King, Jr. 282
25. Some ways to engage in co-creating this
movement 284
Poem: Co-aliveness 290
Appendices 293
A. An annotated informal glossary of basic terms 295
B. Evolutionary Life 301
C. Models of transformational leverage 303
Index 315
About the author 335
Acknowledgments 337
Praise for Reflections on Evolutionary Activism 341
Poem: Just a moment 344
Table
Prologue
How I stumbled into my evolutionary epiphany ix
Introduction 1
Poem: Stardust settles on earth to learn 8
I. Reflections on Evolution and Creation 9
1. Evolution 2.0: A Big History that embraces
all the sciences 11
Poem: Since the Big Bang never stopped 28
2. The Big CPU 29
Poem: The same golden force 35
II. Reflections on Evolutionary Activism 37
3. What is the evolutionary activist worldview? 39
Poem: Showing up 42
4. My evolution in to evolutionary activism 43
Prayer: A prayer of evolutionary affirmation 48
5. What is evolutionary activism? 49
Poem: Riotous meadow people 54
6. What makes evolutionary activism different
from other forms of activism? 55
Poem: Star story children 65
7. Learning to be evolution 66
Poem: Calling of Creation 82
8. Becoming evolution's conscious weavers 83
Poem: First of all 92
III. Reflections on Strategy and Tactics 95
9. Learning from our evolutionary past into
our evolutionary future 97
Poem: That Great Evolving Power 112
10. A "Big Story" evolutionary fitness program 114
Poem: A larger force works through us 121
11. The strategic synergy of individual and
collective 122
Poem: Journey power story questions 128
12. The evolutionary role of conversation 130
Poem: The facilitator 144
13. Transformational leverage 146
Poem: Life like spring 153
IV. Reflections on Evolutionary Grace and
Appreciation 155
14. Goodness Gracious: evolutionary integrity
and our engagement with life 157
Poem: A powerful Grace 162
15. Active appreciation 164
Poem: The whole knows 170
V. Reflections on Crises and Democracy 173
16. Six degrees of separation from reality 175
Poem: Mother Earth's message 180
17. Something bigger than Life is trying to work through us 184
Prayer: Prayer for conscious evolution 196
18. Building wise democracy as crises emerge 197
Poem: We are on the edge 211
19. Democracy and the evolution of societal
intelligence 213
Poem: Ultimately global catastrophe
is about life 221
VI. Reflections on Systems 225
20. Caring and systemic awareness: Does
compassion itself need to evolve? 227
Poem: What we long for 238
21. What makes a social system conscious? 239
Poem: You can't hide anymore 248
VII. Reflections on an Evolutionary Activist
Movement 249
22. A rationale and guidance for nonviolence
as a basis for conscious evolutionary activism 251
Poem: Together at the leading edge 268
23. Five areas to attend to when building an
evolutionary activism movement 271
Poem: Sunshine being meditation 274
24. Imagining an activist movement for the
conscious evolution of social systems 276
Poem: To Martin Luther King, Jr. 282
25. Some ways to engage in co-creating this
movement 284
Poem: Co-aliveness 290
Appendices 293
A. An annotated informal glossary of basic terms 295
B. Evolutionary Life 301
C. Models of transformational leverage 303
Index 315
About the author 335
Acknowledgments 337
Praise for Reflections on Evolutionary Activism 341
Poem: Just a moment 344