Regarding misanthropy
Is human nature destructive? Or have human beings indoctrinated themselves into a belief system that is destructive? The quandary is worth pursuing even if it yields no conclusive answer. Continue reading Regarding misanthropy
Author: Eileen Crist
Eileen is recently retired from Virginia Tech where she taught for 22 years. Her writing focuses on Life’s crisis, its root causes, and pathways towards an ecological civilization. She’s an advocate of plant-based eating and yoga teacher. Her work can be found on her website: http://www.eileencrist.com/
Mirror, mirror on the wall… (eco-hacking AI)
There’s time yet to strip from existence the tattered rags of “ordinary” we’ve dyed and draped over it. The rags will surely smother it and just as surely humanity will grieve. Grief is inevitable when, where Love was due, there was much using and hedging of bets. (There’s always Mars.) Continue reading Mirror, mirror on the wall… (eco-hacking AI)
WITNESS: Tiger magic
The Earth apex predators will revive will be vibrant, of habitable weather, a planet that will “pay us back” with knowledge, medicine, health, spiritual experience, aesthetic elation, and wisdom—the wisdom of understanding our place in nature’s order. Continue reading WITNESS: Tiger magic
The secret garden
Human supremacy sees with the eyes of nihilism, for nihilism (the profanation of existence) is the metaphysics of human supremacy. Continue reading The secret garden
WITNESS: Tales from the Sargasso Sea
Like everywhere on this planet, on the Sargasso life is attracted to life, electrified by curiosity, loving to feed life’s mirror neurons, ever in search of eating, mating, communicating, puttering around, resting, and playing. Continue reading WITNESS: Tales from the Sargasso Sea
Cloak and desecrate: The specter of deep-sea mining
The masterminds of deep-sea mining only deserve contempt. Indeed, I’m going to bypass decorum and say to the corporate-cum-political goons gearing up for more nature desecration: Your window dressing is repugnant and your actions worse. Continue reading Cloak and desecrate: The specter of deep-sea mining
Why I am not going to consult AI
AI is the newfangled technological curveball that invites us to stop—and to resolve if we want to draw a line or to obey its summons. Continue reading Why I am not going to consult AI
Go vegan!
Give your body over to the plants. They deliver magical micronutrients and purifying fiber. They deep-hydrate the body suffusing it with a quality of juiciness, which amounts to the gift of youthfulness regardless of biological years. Bypass meat-heavy dietary fads: such eating will stiffen and dry you into old age. Continue reading Go vegan!
Are humans part of, or apart from, nature?
The dominant human is apart from nature and in centrifugal acceleration away from it—as human supremacy, oblivious to its self-reification, propels the world with giddy abandon toward terra incognita. Continue reading Are humans part of, or apart from, nature?
Don’t lose heart
It is said we are made of stardust. Perhaps that’s where accomplished meditators return. The rest of us may more easily return to what we’re made of by contemplating the first lifeform that emerged: the Archetype, which literally means “the first form.” Continue reading Don’t lose heart
Demonic war
Our call: Love all, no more war on nature, nonhuman and human. Embracing peaceful coexistence heralds humanity’s return to our Earthling nature, our authentic identity. Continue reading Demonic war
The discourse of COVID vaccination and the sovereign technological fix
How did we as a humanity lose touch with what is the most precious thing of all—our home planet and our relationship with it? How could we (let) unwind the breathtaking beauty of this Earth, the onetime gift of a living planet, and our love for our Earthling kin? Continue reading The discourse of COVID vaccination and the sovereign technological fix
Broken mirror
The real way forward, away from suffering and toward hope, lies in denouncing the root cause of our predicament, the human-supremacy story, the destructive platitude of human specialness. Continue reading Broken mirror
Four frameworks for Agroecology
We must make food in harmony and collaboration with nature: healing for the planet, replenishing soils, with kindness to animals and reverence to plants, wholesome and available to all people. That is the way of Agroecology. Continue reading Four frameworks for Agroecology
Earthling (we/us)
Earth keepers call out to one and all to opt out of the sociocultural identity game, to choose freedom from anthropocentric herd costumes that furnish simulacra of reality for a sleepwalking, and now moribund, existence. Continue reading Earthling (we/us)
Shutter the factory farms
At first glance, it may strike us as odd that human food is made from the suffering and torture of animals. But it’s the fact that it is not odd that should command our attention. Continue reading Shutter the factory farms
Grace versus dystopia
Earth is a place of exquisite vitality pervaded by the mystery of awareness. It is being catastrophically impoverished. Artificial intelligence will not bring back what is vanishing, nor replace it. If you wish to know transcendence, forget the machine. Look for an octopus teacher. Continue reading Grace versus dystopia
On rational and sacred ground
Do people actually believe that humanity can cause a mass extinction and there will be no consequences? I am not talking only about consequences for human physical well-being, which will be numerous. I am talking about an everlasting legacy of sorrow to human posterity. Continue reading On rational and sacred ground
Before midnight
Even as the existential threats of mass extinction and climate upheaval are gathering intensity and becoming increasingly inescapable, the world’s superpowers and many other nation-states, in alignment with the corporate-industrial sector, are busy adding insult to injury. Continue reading Before midnight
The COVID-19 mirror
If we refuse to heed the systemic underpinnings of COVID-19, the current epidemiological debacle will surely be dwarfed by other catastrophes in the not too distant future. Continue reading The COVID-19 mirror
Earth Tongues 