by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
The Sun Magazine, August 2002 “Simplify, simplify.” When Henry David Thoreau made this plea 150 years ago, he was reacting to the increasing complexity of life around him. Today we find ourselves in a far more complex world, one in which increasing numbers of us are...
by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Living Universe, Essays
A chapter by Duane for the book, Thomas Berry: Dreamer of the Earth, Ervin Laszlo and Allan combs (eds.), Inner Traditions. This chapter explores the intersection of the horizontal dimension of Berry’s work (the evolution of the universe through time) and the vertical...
by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
by Duane Elgin with Robert A. BushnellTHE FUTURIST, December 1977 Social systems tend to decline in performance as they become bigger, more complex, and increasingly incomprehensible. They also become less amenable to democratic control, and more vulnerable to...
by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
Abstract: The universe is creating self-organizing and self-referencing systems at every scale. In accord with this dynamic, the human family is working to become consciously self-organizing at progressively larger scales. We have evolved from awakening...
by Duane Elgin | Oct 24, 2025 | Essays
1) RUINOUS COLLAPSE2) AUTHORITARIAN CONTROL WITH AI3) LEAP FORWARD WITH EIGHT UPLIFTS Adapted from the book Choosing Earthby Duane Elgin2024 OUR TIME OF COLLECTIVE CHOICEWe stand at a threshold unlike any in the past 100,000 years of human history. The decisions we...