by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
Abstract: The most difficult challenge facing humanity is not devising solutions to the energy crisis or climate crisis or population crisis; rather, it is bringing stories or narratives of the human journey into our collective awareness that empower us to look beyond...
by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
by Francis Weller “In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” —Theodore Roethke We are living in turbulent times on this beautiful planet. All pretense of immunity is collapsing as we realize how completely entangled our lives are with one...
by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
This is a wide-ranging inquiry into collective consciousness and cultural healing. These are among the core themes of this report: • Collective crises and collective consciousness. The condition of the world reflects the condition of our collective consciousness....
by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
An interview with Duane Elginby Carter PhippsWhat is Enlightenment? Magazine, Spring/Summer 2001 INTRODUCTION My first exposure to Duane Elgin’s work was, in a word, frightening. I picked up his new book, Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s...
by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
We have to open our imagination and experience as far as we can to grasp what is happening at every moment of our seemingly “ordinary” lives. Science now views the universe emerged from “nothing” roughly 14 billion years ago and is being sustained, moment by moment,...