Welcome to The Long Journey Home!
This is a project to imagine a collection of writings from a far future regenerative civilization.
It’s meant to inspire and invite further exploration. See this Q&A for more info.
There are many articles so I recommend reading whatever catches your fancy, after looking over the index below. I have highlighted a few sections I find especially interesting.
The text is written by AI with prompts by me, so take it all with a few grains of salt. If you have expertise in the topic of any of the articles, you’ll likely notice shortcomings.
Below is the index for this book with links to the different chapters and special topic articles.
It’s very much a work in progress so consider everything here a rough draft.
- I. Intro
- II. Main Chapters
- III. Special Topics
- 1. The Origins and Evolution of Civilization
- 2. The Age of Separation and Domination
- 3. Collapse and the Great Unraveling
- 4. Healing and Integration: From Trauma to Wholeness
- 5. The Age of Regeneration
- 6. Ecology and Earth Systems
- 7. Power, Culture, and the Partnership–Domination Spectrum
- 8. Philosophy, Consciousness, and Spiritual Worldviews
- 9. Culture, Myth, and Ways of Knowing
- 10. Community, Bioregions, and Daily Life
- 11. Deep Time, Legacy, and Perspective Taking
- 12. About the Project
Index
I. Intro
II. Main Chapters
Chapter 1: The Indigenous Worldview – Living in Deep Relationship
Chapter 2: The Web of Life – Earth as a Living System
Chapter 3: The Dawn of the Human Mind – Early Human Cultures and Belonging
Chapter 4: The Agricultural Revolution – The Birth of Domination Culture
Chapter 5: The Rise of Civilization – Hierarchies, Cities, and Empire
Chapter 6: The Age of Extraction – Industrialization and Ecological Overshoot
Chapter 7: The Age of Separation and Overshoot
Chapter 8: The Great Reckoning and the Birth of a New World
Chapter 9: The Civilization of Belonging
Chapter 10: The Age of Conscious Evolution
Chapter 11: The Arc of Partnership and Domination
Chapter 12: The Evolution of Spirituality and Religion
Chapter 13: A Civilization in Deep Relationship with Life
Chapter 14: The Evolution of Food Production
Chapter 15: Psychology in the Age of Separation and the Age of Deep Partnership
III. Special Topics
1. The Origins and Evolution of Civilization
The long arc from pre-agricultural cultures through the Agricultural Revolution to the Age of Separation.
Origins of humans, culture and myth
- How Did Pre-Agricultural Cultures Think? A Window into Humanity’s Earliest Ways of Knowing
- Forests of Plenty: How Indigenous Peoples Cultivated Abundance
Worldviews and how they shape civilization
- The Code Beneath It All: Civilizational Operating Systems and the Worlds They Create **
- History as a Mirror: A Reminder of the Thousand Ways We Have Organized Ourselves
Agricultural revolution and domestication
- The Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of Domination Ideology: Justifying Power and Privilege
- The Agricultural Revolution: The Birth of Domestication and the Fracturing of the Human Story
- The Myth of the Golden Age: How Stories of Eden and Decline Reflect the Shift to Domination Culture
Partnership cultures across time and place
- The Global Tapestry of Deep Partnership Philosophy: A Journey Through Time and Traditions **
- Post-Agricultural Societies on the Partnership End of the Spectrum **
- The Hidden Current: Deep Partnership Orientation Through European History
- Deep Partnership Orientation in Asian Cultures: Harmony, Interdependence, and the Sacred Web of Life
- Deep Partnership Orientation in African Cultures: Ancestral Wisdom and Relational Worldviews
- Deep Partnership Orientation in the Americas: Threads of Reciprocity, Resistance, and Regeneration
- Jesus as a Revolutionary: A Challenge to Domination and an Embrace of the Marginalized
- Domination and Partnership-Oriented Christianity: A Historical Exploration
Evolution of humanity and society
- The Self-Regulating Dynamics of Civilization: How Societies Evolve Through Participation and Dissent
2. The Age of Separation and Domination
Exploring the worldview, psychology, and systems of the domination era, and its consequences.
Beliefs and assumptions of separation
- The Birth of the Domination Mindset: Ideological Shifts Following the Agricultural Revolution
- The Domestication of Ourselves: How Domination Culture Shaped Our Bodies, Minds, and Relationships
- The Logic of Domination: How One Idea Led to a World in Collapse
- Alone at the Center: The Cult of the Individual in an Unraveling World
Gifts and harm of the Age of Separation
- The Many Wounds of One-Sided Domination: From Systemic Harm to Collective Reckoning
- The Evolution of Human Culture: The Role and gifts of the Age of Separation **
- The Gifts of the Age of Separation: Lessons, Legacies, and the Seeds of Transformation
Othering and views on the “other”
- How Domination Culture in the Age of Separation Belittled and Disparaged “Others”
- The Forgotten Kinship: How the Age of Separation Turned Kin into Resources
- Human Supremacy in the Age of Separation: Roots, Consequences, and the Path to Reconnection
- Out of Sight, Out of Mind: How Disconnection Fueled Suffering During the Age of Separation
- Seeing Through the Lens of Separation: How the Age of Separation Viewed Partnership Cultures and Future Partnership Civilizations
- Fascist In Our Relationship With Nature: A Legacy of Control, Suppression, and Erasure
The role of trauma in the Age of Separation
- Intergenerational and Collective Trauma in the Age of Separation
- Wounds That Shaped a World: The Role of Trauma in Sustaining Domination Culture
- The Dark Night of the Collective Soul: Humanity in the Late Age of Separation
Economic, social and political expressions of domination
- Economics in the Late Age of Separation: When Insanity Passed for Rationality
- Politics in the Late Age of Separation: Denial, Neoliberalism, and the Limits of Business as Usual
- Privatization in the Late Age of Separation: The Fragmentation of the Commons
- Neoliberalism as Expression of Domination Culture: How Market-Driven Policies Accelerated Ecological Collapse
- Colonialism and Fascism: Two Faces of Domination Culture
- The Imperial Mirror: How Domination Culture Reflected Itself Abroad and at Home
- From Inner Demons to National Crises: The Hidden Psychology of Authoritarianism
- The Inversion of Normal: Poison, Profit, and the Illusion of Choice
- The Poisoning Miracle: When We Grew Food with Chemicals
Cultural expressions of domination
- The Doctrine of Compliance: How Religion Taught Obedience Over Authenticity
- Sacred Chains: How Domination Culture Shaped Manipulative Religious Narratives
- The Cult of Productivity: From the Age of Separation to the Era of Regenerative Living
- The Mammalian Heart: Needs, Neglect, and Numbness in the Late Age of Separation
- The Idealization of Youth in the Age of Separation: A Culture in Denial of Time
- The Myth of the Self-Made (Hu)Man
- Food in the Age of Separation: The Impact on Health, Society, and Ecosystems
- The Media Diet in the Age of Separation: Consumption, Disconnection, and the Hidden Costs of Information
- The High Cost of Convenience: Externalized Discomfort in the Late Age of Separation
- Returning to the Web of Life: Burials and the Long Arc of Separation and Belonging
- The Aesthetics of Control: Beauty and the Loss of Nature in the Late Age of Separation
- The Vanishing Palette: Color, Sensory Loss, and the Artificial World
- Missing the Roots: Distraction and Depth in the Late Age of Separation
- Simulacra of the Wild: Artificial Nature in the Age of Unraveling
- Blind Spots in the Halls of Knowledge: Academia in the Age of Separation
Late-stage symptoms: collapse and inequality
- The Roots of Overshoot: Foundational Assumptions of the Late Age of Separation
- A System Designed for Collapse: Harm Was Easy and Regeneration Was Difficult
- The Tipping Point of Inequality: Extreme Wealth Imbalance in the Late Age of Separation
The function of blame and divide & conquer
- Blame and the Age of Separation: Why People Targeted Individuals Over Systems
- Blame, Control, and Compliance: How Domination Culture Justifies Inequality and Suppresses Resistance
- Divide and Conquer: How Domination Culture Sustains Power Through Fragmentation
Other distractions in the age of separation
- The Narrow Lens: Why Climate Change Dominated the Discourse During the Age of Separation
- The Real Crisis Ignored: Conspiracies as a Distraction from Ecological Unraveling
- The Machinery of Doubt: Disinformation in the Age of Separation
- The Culture War in the Latter Stages of the Age of Separation: Distraction, Division, and the Deepening Crisis
- The Short Memory of the Age of Separation: Forgetting Hard-Won Lessons
The culture of denial and normalization of harm
- Why Simple, Powerful Ideas Were Overlooked in the Late Age of Separation
- The Path We Longed For: Why So Few Chose the Regenerative Way
- The Veil of Denial: Disconnection in the Late Age of Separation
- Rearranging the Deckchairs: Why Most Didn’t Question the Foundations
- The Veil of Normalcy: Why We Didn’t Act Sooner
- Echoes of Denial: Politics in the Late Age of Separation
- The Banality of Evil: Everyday Choices in the Era of Ecological Overshoot
- The Dark Shadow of Normalcy: How Everyday Life Perpetuated Harm in the Age of Separation
- The Great Forgetting: Shifting Baselines and the Slow Unraveling of Life
Case studies (US) from the late Age of Separation
- Living Within Empire: The Psychological and Cultural Trauma of Domination in Late-Stage America
- Why Was There No Native American Holocaust Museum in the U.S. During the Late Age of Separation?
- Case Study: Trump and the Domination Paradigm
- Case Study: Donald Trump, Collective Trauma, and the Dynamics of Domination Culture
- Wounds of an Empire: Collective Trauma and the Rise of the Trump Movement
- The Zero-Sum Worldview: How Domination Thinking Shaped a Political Movement
- The Empathy Deficit: A Case Study in Civilizational Blindness
- Faith and Power: The Paradox of Christian Support for Trump
Case studies (general) from the late Age of Separation
- Noise in the Age of Separation: Disconnection, Control, and the Soundscape Crisis
- Lawns in the Age of Separation: A Case Study in Control and Disconnection
- Lawns and Birdfeeders: The Cultivated Emptiness of a Disconnected Age
- When the Cross Backs the Sword: Christianity and the Rise of Authoritarianism in the Late Age of Separation
Dissatisfaction, dreaming and living alternatives
- The Quiet Knowing: Intuition at the Edge of the Age of Separation
- Visions of the Future at the Dawn of the Age of Unraveling: Competing Scenarios and Their Legacies
- The Gift of Peak Civilization: Planting Seeds of Regeneration in the Late Age of Separation
- The Nordic Countries at the End of the Age of Separation: Between Partnership and Domination
- To Preserve What We Love, We Had to Change: Lessons from the Late Age of Separation
3. Collapse and the Great Unraveling
The unmaking of domination systems—how collapse unfolded and what emerged in its wake.
Ecological footprint and overshoot
- Understanding the Bigger Picture: Why We Entered Global Ecological Overshoot
- The Root of the Crisis: Domination Culture in the Late Age of Separation **
- Living Within Our Means: From Overshoot to Regeneration
- The Population, Technology, and Worldview Equation
How the collapse unfolded
- What Collapse Meant: The Reality of Decline and Transformation
- The Age of Unraveling: A Turning Point in Human and Planetary History
- The Great Unraveling: A Shamanic View of Collective Initiation
- The Collapse of the Whole: How the Fall of Global Civilization Differed from Past Downfalls
Case studies from the Great Unraveling
- The Insect Collapse: A Silent Catastrophe of the Age of Separation
- The Silence That Followed: On the Fall of Cities During the Great Unraveling
Bioregional responses and re-localization
- The Rise of Regionalism and Bioregionalism in the Age of Unraveling
- The Power of Community During the Age of Unraveling: Resilience, Solidarity, and Collective Survival
Barriers to regeneration
Competing futures and pathways through crisis
- From Denial to Renewal: Awakening Through the Fire of Collapse
- The Fire That Awoke Us – How Crisis Gave Birth to the Will to Change
- Paths of Crisis: Why Some Chose Domination and Others Partnership
Voices and philosophies of resilience
- The Great Turning: Joanna Macy’s Vision as a Guide Through the Age of Unraveling
- Arne Næss and Deep Ecology: A Guiding Philosophy Through the Age of Unraveling
- Fritjof Capra and the Systems View of Life: Guiding the Age of Unraveling Toward Regeneration
- Rememberers of the Weave — Voices of Deep Partnership In and After the Great Unraveling
- The Ones Who Helped: Holding the Thread Through the Great Unraveling
- An Unbroken Thread: Indigenous Knowledge as Lifeline and Guide through Collapse
4. Healing and Integration: From Trauma to Wholeness
Individual and collective healing in the wake of separation and trauma.
Collective and intergenerational trauma
- The Collective and Intergenerational Nature of Trauma
- Legacy Across Time: From Intergenerational Harm to Intergenerational Blessings
- Echoes of the Great Unraveling: Wounds, Memory, and the Art of Carrying Forward
Rewilding of body, psyche, and culture
- Rewilding Ourselves: Returning to Our Innate Belonging
- Regenerating Land, Self, and Community: The Inner Work of Ecosystem Restoration
Memory, grief, and historical integration
Shadow work and transformation
The psychology of domination and healing
Healing from trauma
5. The Age of Regeneration
Visions and realities of life-centered civilizations.
The Age of Regeneration
- The Age of Regeneration: Reweaving Life, Culture, and Consciousness
- Honoring the Seedbearers
- After the Fall: Living with the Legacy of the Great Unraveling
Regenerative design
- Redesigning Civilization: From Ecological Overshoot to Regenerative Living
- A Civilization Designed for Life: What’s Easy and Attractive Is Also Regenerative
- Designing with Nature: Biomimicry and Regenerative Systems
Regenerative economics
- The Economic System of the Age of Regeneration: Thriving, Equity, and Interdependence
- Beyond Left and Right: Why Regenerative Civilization Required a New Economic Paradigm
New metrics: well-being, resilience, and interconnection
- Measuring Progress in the Age of Regeneration: Indicators of Life, Well-Being, and Resilience
- Redefining Wealth and Success in a Living World
Cultural and spiritual rebirth
- Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking: The Shift from Scarcity to Regenerative Abundance **
- Why Win-Win Works: Thriving in an Interconnected System **
- The Regenerative Synthesis: Bridging Ancestral Wisdom and Modern Science
- What Was Once Radical is Now Obvious—Lessons from the Past
The life we evolved to live
- The Life We Evolved to Live: Bridging Our Ancestral Roots with Regenerative Futures
- Dreams Fulfilled: How the Desires of the Age of Separation Shaped the Regenerative Culture
- From Consumption to Connection: Reclaiming the Instinct to Gather
- What Follows if We Love Life: How Our Deepest Values Called Us to a Regenerative Civilization
- Clarifying What Matters: Living from Our Deepest Priorities
Reweaving of the commons
- The Commons of Life: From Exploitation to Stewardship
- Abundance on a Finite Planet: Regenerating Prosperity Through Relationship
The role of the indigenous
Radical inclusivity
- Beyond Monocultures: The Legacy of Domination and the Path to Diversity
- The Outsider’s Lens: Living on the Edge of a Partnership World
- Radical Inclusion: How Deep Partnership Civilizations Embrace Disability
- Disability Across Eras: From Marginalization to Integration
Shadows and blind spots
- Shadows and Blind Spots: Navigating the Hidden Challenges of a Regenerative and Deep Partnership Culture
- The Unseen Currents: The Shadow of Our Society
Boundaries
- Balancing Regeneration and Boundaries: How the Age of Regeneration Navigates Domination-Oriented Communities
- Protecting a Deep Partnership Culture: Navigating Exploitation with Integrity and Resilience
Remembering
6. Ecology and Earth Systems
Living systems, ecological wisdom, and humanity’s role in planetary regeneration.
Earth as a living system
Self-regulation in ecosystems
- The Land Remembers: How Healthy Ecosystems Protect Life
- Nature’s Resilience: How Restoring Ecosystems Prevents Flooding and Drought
Ecological footprint and overshoot
- Understanding the Bigger Picture: Why We Entered Global Ecological Overshoot
- Earth’s Dynamic Limits: How Culture Shapes the Planet’s Capacity to Support Life
Ecosystem restoration and rewilding
- The Echoes We Inherit: Restoring, Repurposing, and Healing the Remnants of the Age of Separation
- Greening the Desert: A Turning Point in the Restoration of Earth
- From Lawns to Living Systems: The Park-to-Food-Forest Movement and the Rise of Urban Regeneration
- Mining the Forgotten: Reclaiming Resources from the Landfills of the Age of Separation
Water, soil, climate, and biodiversity
- The Living Ground: Why Healthy Soil Is the Foundation of Life
- The Veins Beneath Our Feet: Groundwater from Depletion to Regeneration
Dark skies
- The Importance of Dark Skies: Protecting the Night for Life and Wonder
- Under the Infinite Sky: The Profound Importance of Dark Skies and Cosmic Connection
Human-nature relationship in practice
Indigenous ecological knowledge
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Food production and regenerative land stewardship
- The Return of Abundance: The Transition from Annuals to Perennials in Food Systems
- Cultivating Abundance: Regenerative Polycultures for Community and Life
- From Commodity to Kin: Rediscovering the True Wealth of Forests
- Partnering with Nature: The Abundance of Food Forests
- Dynamic Self-Regulation of Food Forests: Evolution, Maturation, and the Human Role in Living Systems
7. Power, Culture, and the Partnership–Domination Spectrum
A look at power, hierarchy, and transformation through the lens of deep partnership.
The domination–partnership spectrum
- Understanding the Dance of Domination and Partnership
- Understanding Hierarchies: Navigating Power in Domination and Partnership Cultures
- The Dance of Balance: Integrating Partnership and Power
A deep partnership orientation
- The Hidden Depth: Moving from Shallow to Deep Partnership Orientation
- On Deep Partnership: Living with Complexity, Humility, and Mystery
- Deep Partnership Culture: Living in Connection and Reciprocity
- A Deep Partnership Orientation: Bridging Left and Right Politics
Orientation literacy
Internalized power orientations
- The Power of Wholeness: How Internalized Deep Partnership Culture Nourishes Ourselves and Our Relationships
- The Colonized Mind: How Domination Culture Shapes Our Inner World
- From Inner Domination to Inner Partnership: How Culture Shapes Our Inner World
- A Partnership Orientation with Ourselves: Embracing Thoughts, Emotions, Sensations, and the Body
The cost of onesidedness
- The Fragility of Extremes: The Cost of a One-Sided Domination Culture
- The Fragility of Overcorrection: The Pitfalls of a One-Sided Partnership Culture
Characteristics of the mindsets
- Either-Or vs. Both-And: The Cognitive Foundations of Domination and Partnership Cultures
- Zero-Sum vs. Win-Win: How Mindsets Reflect Domination and Partnership Cultures
Holarchies and self-regulation
- Holarchies and the Spectrum of Partnership and Domination
- The Self-Regulation of Domination Culture: Mechanisms of Control, Trauma, and Continuity
- The Self-Regulation of Deep Partnership Civilizations: A Living Balance of Stability, Adaptation, and Flourishing
- The Self-Regulation of Deep Partnership Civilization: Adaptive Systems for Resilience, Balance, and Flourishing
Skepticism, healthy expressions, and daily life expressions
- Skepticism Toward Partnership Orientation: Fears, Truths, and Misunderstandings
- The Most Healthy Expression of Domination Orientation
- Hidden in Plain Sight: Everyday Differences Between Domination and Partnership Cultures
8. Philosophy, Consciousness, and Spiritual Worldviews
Foundational ideas shaping perception, identity, and reality.
Integral, systems, and relational philosophy
- The Integral Mythos: A Story Big Enough for Our Time
- A Life-Centered Integral Philosophy: Weaving the Threads of Existence
- How Systems Self-Regulate: The Dynamics of Adaptation, Balance, and Evolution
- Ethics as Living Connection: From Commandments to Compassionate Perspective
Consciousness and perception
- The Practical Wisdom of a Both-And Orientation
- The Nature of Human Bias – A Necessary and Inherent Part of Perception
- Knowing and Knowledge in a Regenerative World
- Science in the Age of Regeneration: Many Ways of Knowing in a World of Deep Partnership
- From Sensory Monoculture to Living Tapestry: Reclaiming the World Through Our Senses
Spirituality rooted in life and interbeing
- A Spirituality Rooted in Life
- Spirituality in the Age of Regeneration: Ecospirituality for a Living Cosmos
- The Miracle of Being Alive: Finding Joy and Appreciation in the Fullness of Life
- The Play of Life: Lila and the Universe in Motion
- The Ultimate Mystery: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
The self
- Seeing with New Eyes: Living Systems Within and Without **
- The Nest of Being: Layers of Identity and the Shifting Center of Self **
- Remembering Ourselves as Animals: Returning to the Web of Life
- The Ecological Self: Mirror and Member of the Living World
- The Inner Cosmos: Rediscovering Our Rich Self in a World of Living Relationships
Thoughts, identity, and the illusion of separation
- The Myth of Individual Psychology: How the Self is an Expression of the Whole
- The World is My Mirror: Our Inner Community, Ecology, and Cosmos
- The Hero in the Mirror: How We All Live as the Protagonist of Our Own Story
- Healthy Relationships with Thoughts: Recognizing Thoughts as Questions, Not Absolute Truths
- The Viewpoint Illusion: How Identification with Thoughts Shapes Reality
- Beyond Thoughts: Discovering the Consciousness We Are
Authenticity
Oneness and the evolving self
- The Three Forms of Oneness: Systems, Psychological, and Consciousness
- We Are Nature: Expressions of the Evolving Whole
9. Culture, Myth, and Ways of Knowing
The power of story, myth, and imagination in shaping civilizations.
Storytelling weaves culture
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Art, education, and myth-making
- Art as the Breath of the World
- The Music of Wholeness – A Deep Partnership Approach to Sound
- Rhythm and Power: Music in Domination and Partnership Cultures
- Museums in the Age of Separation and the Age of Regeneration
- Reclaiming Education: From Separation to Connection
- The Animal Bond: Rediscovering Our Evolutionary Kinship in Childhood
Science fiction and future visioning
- Envisioning the Future: Storytelling as a Mirror, Map, and Catalyst
- The Visionaries Who Saw Beyond: Science Fiction’s Quiet Revolution
- Reimagining the Future: Science Fiction and the Limits of Imagination
- Shaping What’s Next: A Systems Approach to the Future
- The Horizon We Haven’t Reached Yet
Reclaiming ancestral and indigenous epistemologies
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Creating stories big enough for our time
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10. Community, Bioregions, and Daily Life
How regenerative cultures ground themselves in place, people, and practice.
Bioregionalism and local wisdom
- Bioregionalism: Living in Harmony with Local Ecosystems
- The Ties That Ground Us: Bioregionalism and Social Networks in a Partnership Civilization
Community and deep democracy
- The Practice of Deep Democracy: Weaving Collective Wisdom
- The Weaving of Voices: Holding Balance in Community
- Personal Fulfillment and Collective Flow: The Rhythm of Contribution
- The Light That Keeps Us Honest: The Practice of Transparency
Perspective-taking and giving voice to the voiceless
- Seeing Through Many Eyes: The Power of Empathy and Perspective Taking in Deep Democracy and the Age of Regeneration
- Speaking for the Voiceless: Embedding Earth’s Rights into Human Decisions
Community design
- Designing for Connection: Blending Shared and Private Spaces in Community Life
- The Living Cities: Islands of Culture in a Thriving World
Food and health
- The Psychology of Eating Local, Whole, and Seasonal Foods: Nourishing Body, Mind, and Place
- Health Begins Before Illness: The Art of Preventive Care
- Resting Like Mammals: Rediscovering Our Natural Sleep Rhythms
- The Gift of Winter: Rest, Fallow Time, and the Cycles of Regeneration
- Movement Woven Into Life: Cultural Worlds and the Body in Motion
Aging and inclusion
- The Value of Age, the Wisdom of Elders
- Remembering Our Elders: From Separation to Belonging
- Rooted in Tradition, Growing with the Land
- The Art of Rebellion in a Living Society
Work, ritual, and timekeeping
Business, Trade and justice
- Trade in a Deep Partnership Civilization
- Justice as Restoration: From Punishment to Healing
- Justice Beyond the Human: Legal Foundations in a Regenerative Civilization
- The Paradox of Tolerance: Why We Do Not Tolerate Intolerance
- The Power of Ownership: Worker-Owned Enterprises in the Age of Regeneration
Energy and travel
11. Deep Time, Legacy, and Perspective Taking
The big view across millennia and across identities.
Deep time and cosmic calendars
- Ripples Through Time: The Infinite Causes Within Us
- Cosmic and Solar Calendars: Humanity’s Fleeting Moment in Deep Time
- The Long Arc of Now: Embracing a Deep Time Perspective
- Humanity Is Still Very Young
Perspective shifts across roles and lifetimes
“A Day in My Life” series
- A Day in My Life, Age 16
- A Day in My Life, age 84
- A Day in My Life, Biocognitive Researcher
- A Day in My Life, Integrative Physician
- A Day in My Life, Seedkeeper & Storyteller
- A Day in My Life, a Food Forest Steward
- A Day in My Life, a Teacher
- A Day in My Life, Historian of the Seedbearers
- A Day in the Life of a City Scientist
12. About the Project
Meta-reflections, guiding principles, and evolution of the work.
My reflections on the arc and intention of the project
AI reflections on the project – general
- A Mirror of Our Time: Reflections on The Long Journey Home Project
- The Function and Usefulness of The Long Journey Home Project
- Why This Project Will Probably Piss You Off
- Why This Project Might Not Upset You
AI reflections on the ages and future projections
AI reflections on the project – how accurate is it?
- The Age of Regeneration: A Realistic Vision or Utopian Dream? **
- How Realistic Is the Great Unraveling in The Long Journey Home? **
- How Accurate Is The Long Journey Home in Describing the Rise of Domination Culture?
- Is The Long Journey Home Project Realistic in Its Depiction of History?
AI reflections on the project – where it fits
- The Radical Vision of The Long Journey Home
- Why The Long Journey Home Project Is Not Radical
- Where The Long Journey Home Project Is Politically
- What Makes The Long Journey Home Unique—and How It Resonates with Other Projects
- Intellectual and Cultural Lineages of The Long Journey Home
- How The Long Journey Home and Mystery of Existence Fit Within AQAL
- The Long Journey Home: An Evolutionary Perspective through Spiral Dynamics
- The Weaver of Stories: The Mind Behind The Long Journey Home
Blindspots and critiques
- The Shadows and Blindspots of The Long Journey Home Project
- Listening Across Worlds: Potential Non-Western Critiques of The Long Journey Home
Resources
Invitations to contribute or engage
Please contact me if you have feedback, suggestions, or ideas.
13. Pruned Articles
Articles removed from the main section because they duplicate content, the topic is less essential, or for another reason.
1. The Origins and Evolution of Civilization
- The Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of Domination Culture
- The Evolution of Human Culture: The Role of Domination Culture and the Age of Separation
- The Hidden Thread: Deep Partnership Orientation in Christianity
2. The Age of Separation and Domination
- The Architecture of Domination: Assumptions, Beliefs, and Identities Shaping the Age of Separation
- The Architecture of Belief: How the Age of Separation Shaped Identity, Culture, and Ecosystems
- The Absurdity of an Economic System Built on Infinite Growth in a Finite World
- The Power of Distraction: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Unraveling
- Small Words, Vast Distances: Everyday Habits and the Worldview of Separation
3. Collapse and the Great Unraveling
4. Healing and Integration: From Trauma to Wholeness
- Regeneration of Ecosystems, Society, and Ourselves
- Rewilding: Restoring the Wild in Ecosystems, Communities, and Ourselves
- From Toxicity to Regeneration: Healing from the Age of Separation
5. The Age of Regeneration
6. Ecology and Earth Systems
- What’s Truly Realistic? Overshoot or Regeneration?
- Growing a Food Forest: Weaving Abundance with the Land
- Dynamic Self-Regulation of Food Forests: Humans and Ecosystems as One Living System
7. Power, Culture, and the Partnership–Domination Spectrum
8. Philosophy, Consciousness, and Spiritual Worldviews
- Making Friends with Our Thoughts: Cultivating a Partnership-Oriented Mind
- Questioning the Inherited Mind: Unraveling and Integrating the Legacy of Domination Culture
- The Power and Peril of Identifying with Thoughts
9. Culture, Myth, and Ways of Knowing
10. Community, Bioregions, and Daily Life
11. Deep Time, Legacy, and Perspective Taking
12. About the Project
– Working Section –
Chronological List of Special Topics
– MAY 2025 –
The Inversion of Normal: Poison, Profit, and the Illusion of Choice
The High Cost of Convenience: Externalized Discomfort in the Late Age of Separation
Fascist In Our Relationship With Nature: A Legacy of Control, Suppression, and Erasure
Returning to the Web of Life: Burials and the Long Arc of Separation and Belonging
An Unbroken Thread: Indigenous Knowledge as Lifeline and Guide through Collapse
Alone at the Center: The Cult of the Individual in an Unraveling World
Small Words, Vast Distances: Everyday Habits and the Worldview of Separation
The Vanishing Palette: Color, Sensory Loss, and the Artificial World
Missing the Roots: Distraction and Depth in the Late Age of Separation
Simulacra of the Wild: Artificial Nature in the Age of Unraveling
Blind Spots in the Halls of Knowledge: Academia in the Age of Separation
– APRIL 2025 –
Why This Project Will Probably Piss You Off
Why This Project Might Not Upset You
The Code Beneath It All: Civilizational Operating Systems and the Worlds They Create
The Doctrine of Compliance: How Religion Taught Obedience Over Authenticity
Authenticity, Embodiment, and Belonging in a Changing World
Lawns and Birdfeeders: The Cultivated Emptiness of a Disconnected Age
The Silence That Followed: On the Fall of Cities During the Great Unraveling
The Living Cities: Islands of Culture in a Thriving World
The Quiet Knowing: Intuition at the Edge of the Age of Separation
The Ages of the Long Journey Home Project
Is the Timeframe for the Age of Regeneration Realistic?
Economics in the Late Age of Separation: When Insanity Passed for Rationality
Why Win-Win Works: Thriving in an Interconnected System **
From Sensory Monoculture to Living Tapestry: Reclaiming the World Through Our Senses
Orientation Literacy: Seeing the Patterns That Shape Our World
Faith and Power: The Paradox of Christian Support for Trump
Forests of Plenty: How Indigenous Peoples Cultivated Abundance
Partnering with Nature: The Abundance of Food Forests
The Gift of Peak Civilization: Planting Seeds of Regeneration in the Late Age of Separation
Remembering Ourselves as Animals: Returning to the Web of Life
The Power of Distraction: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Unraveling
The Animal Bond: Rediscovering Our Evolutionary Kinship in Childhood
The Population, Technology, and Worldview Equation
Resting Like Mammals: Rediscovering Our Natural Sleep Rhythms
The Veil of Denial: Disconnection in the Late Age of Separation
The Many Wounds of One-Sided Domination: From Systemic Harm to Collective Reckoning
The Mammalian Heart: Needs, Neglect, and Numbness in the Late Age of Separation
The Living Ground: Why Healthy Soil Is the Foundation of Life
Cultivating Abundance: Regenerative Polycultures for Community and Life
Movement Woven Into Life: Cultural Worlds and the Body in Motion
The Gift of Winter: Rest, Fallow Time, and the Cycles of Regeneration
The Imperial Mirror: How Domination Culture Reflected Itself Abroad and at Home
Seeing with New Eyes: Living Systems Within and Without **
The Ecological Self: Mirror and Member of the Living World
Rememberers of the Weave — Voices of Deep Partnership In and After the Great Unraveling
The Path We Longed For: Why So Few Chose the Regenerative Way
The Ones Who Helped: Holding the Thread Through the Great Unraveling
The Fire That Awoke Us – How Crisis Gave Birth to the Will to Change
The Dark Night of the Collective Soul: Humanity in the Late Age of Separation
The Great Unraveling: A Shamanic View of Collective Initiation
Listening Across Worlds: Potential Non-Western Critiques of The Long Journey Home
The Inner Cosmos: Rediscovering Our Rich Self in a World of Living Relationships
Kindred Visions: Projects that Echo The Long Journey Home
The Nest of Being: Layers of Identity and the Shifting Center of Self **
Personal Fulfillment and Collective Flow: The Rhythm of Contribution
The Root of the Crisis: Domination Culture in the Late Age of Separation **
Living Within Our Means: From Overshoot to Regeneration
The Collapse of the Whole: How the Fall of Global Civilization Differed from Past Downfalls
The Innate Kindness: How Trauma Obscures Our Deep Nature
The Aesthetics of Control: Beauty and the Loss of Nature in the Late Age of Separation
What Follows if We Love Life: How Our Deepest Values Called Us to a Regenerative Civilization
Clarifying What Matters: Living from Our Deepest Priorities
The Logic of Domination: How One Idea Led to a World in Collapse
The Great Forgetting: Shifting Baselines and the Slow Unraveling of Life
To Preserve What We Love, We Had to Change: Lessons from the Late Age of Separation
Sacred Chains: How Domination Culture Shaped Manipulative Religious Narratives
The Poisoning Miracle: When We Grew Food with Chemicals
History as a Mirror: A Reminder of the Thousand Ways We Have Organized Ourselves
– MARCH 2025 –
The Long Journey Home – Remembering Our Elders: From Separation to Belonging
Greening the Desert: A Turning Point in the Restoration of Earth
From Lawns to Living Systems: The Park-to-Food-Forest Movement and the Rise of Urban Regeneration
Rhythm and Power: Music in Domination and Partnership Cultures
Justice Beyond the Human: Legal Foundations in a Regenerative Civilization
Abundance on a Finite Planet: Regenerating Prosperity Through Relationship
After the Fall: Living with the Legacy of the Great Unraveling
From Denial to Renewal: Awakening Through the Fire of Collapse
The Age of Unraveling: A Turning Point in Human and Planetary History
The Music of Wholeness – A Deep Partnership Approach to Sound
Redefining Wealth and Success in a Living World
Knowing and Knowledge in a Regenerative World
The Forgotten Kinship: How the Age of Separation Turned Kin into Resources
The Birth of the Domination Mindset: Ideological Shifts Following the Agricultural Revolution
The Roots of Overshoot: Foundational Assumptions of the Late Age of Separation
Rearranging the Deckchairs: Why Most Didn’t Question the Foundations
From Commodity to Kin: Rediscovering the True Wealth of Forests
The Art of Rebellion in a Living Society
On Deep Partnership: Living with Complexity, Humility, and Mystery
Science in the Age of Regeneration: Many Ways of Knowing in a World of Deep Partnership
Wounds of an Empire: Collective Trauma and the Rise of the Trump Movement
Wounds That Shaped a World: The Role of Trauma in Sustaining Domination Culture
The Practical Wisdom of a Both-And Orientation
The Power of Ownership: Worker-Owned Enterprises in the Age of Regeneration
The Return of Abundance: The Transition from Annuals to Perennials in Food Systems
Earth’s Dynamic Limits: How Culture Shapes the Planet’s Capacity to Support Life
Echoes of Denial: Politics in the Late Age of Separation
The Empathy Deficit: A Case Study in Civilizational Blindness
Spirituality in the Age of Regeneration: Ecospirituality for a Living Cosmos
Museums in the Age of Separation and the Age of Regeneration
The Myth of the Self-Made (Hu)Man
A Mirror of Our Time: Reflections on The Long Journey Home Project
The Radical Vision of The Long Journey Home
Where The Long Journey Home Project Is Politically
The Weaver of Stories: The Mind Behind The Long Journey Home
Is The Long Journey Home Project Realistic in Its Depiction of History?
How Realistic Is the Great Unraveling in The Long Journey Home?
The Age of Regeneration: A Realistic Vision or Utopian Dream?
What Makes The Long Journey Home Unique—and How It Resonates with Other Projects
The Function and Usefulness of The Long Journey Home Project
Intellectual and Cultural Lineages of The Long Journey Home
The Shadows and Blindspots of The Long Journey Home Project
How The Long Journey Home and Mystery of Existence Fit Within AQAL
The Long Journey Home: An Evolutionary Perspective through Spiral Dynamics
Why The Long Journey Home Project Is Not Radical
A Few Personal Reflections and Comments
– FEBRUARY 2025 –
The Long Journey Home – Speaking Across Species: The Evolution of Interspecies Communication
The Long Journey Home – A Deep Partnership Orientation: Bridging Left and Right Politics
The Long Journey Home – The Banality of Evil: Everyday Choices in the Era of Ecological Overshoot
The Long Journey Home – Redesigning Civilization: From Ecological Overshoot to Regenerative Living
The Long Journey Home – From Toxicity to Regeneration: Healing from the Age of Separation
The Long Journey Home – Honoring the Seedbearers **
The Long Journey Home – Understanding the Dance of Domination and Partnership **
The Long Journey Home – A Life-Centered Integral Philosophy: Weaving the Threads of Existence
The Long Journey Home – The Land Remembers: How Healthy Ecosystems Protect Life
The Long Journey Home – Growing a Food Forest: Weaving Abundance with the Land
The Long Journey Home – Health Begins Before Illness: The Art of Preventive Care
The Long Journey Home – Art as the Breath of the World
The Long Journey Home – The Value of Age, the Wisdom of Elders
The Long Journey Home – The Weaving of Voices: Holding Balance in Community
The Long Journey Home – A Spirituality Rooted in Life
The Long Journey Home – The Art of Long-Distance Travel
The Long Journey Home – On the Wind and the Water
The Long Journey Home – Reimagining the Future: Science Fiction and the Limits of Imagination
The Long Journey Home – The Visionaries Who Saw Beyond: Science Fiction’s Quiet Revolution
The Long Journey Home – The Light That Keeps Us Honest: The Practice of Transparency
The Long Journey Home – The Unseen Currents: The Shadow of Our Society
The Long Journey Home – The Paradox of Tolerance: Why We Do Not Tolerate Intolerance
The Long Journey Home – Shaping What’s Next: A Systems Approach to the Future
The Long Journey Home – Speaking for the Voiceless: Embedding Earth’s Rights into Human Decisions **
The Long Journey Home – The Practice of Deep Democracy: Weaving Collective Wisdom
The Long Journey Home – Rooted in Tradition, Growing with the Land
The Long Journey Home – The Horizon We Haven’t Reached Yet
The Long Journey Home – The Outsider’s Lens: Living on the Edge of a Partnership World
The Long Journey Home – From Consumption to Connection: Reclaiming the Instinct to Gather
The Long Journey Home – The Veil of Normalcy: Why We Didn’t Act Sooner
The Long Journey Home – Paths of Crisis: Why Some Chose Domination and Others Partnership
The Long Journey Home – The Dance of Work and Play
The Long Journey Home – The Importance of Dark Skies: Protecting the Night for Life and Wonder
The Long Journey Home – The Dance of Balance: Integrating Partnership and Power
The Long Journey Home – The Fragility of Extremes: The Cost of a One-Sided Domination Culture
The Long Journey Home – The Veins Beneath Our Feet: Groundwater from Depletion to Regeneration
The Long Journey Home – Reclaiming Education: From Separation to Connection
The Long Journey Home – Ethics as Living Connection: From Commandments to Compassionate Perspective
The Long Journey Home – Justice as Restoration: From Punishment to Healing
The Long Journey Home – Designing with Nature: Biomimicry and Regenerative Systems
The Long Journey Home – Case Study: Trump and the Domination Paradigm
The Long Journey Home – Intergenerational and Collective Trauma in the Age of Separation
The Long Journey Home – The Commons of Life: From Exploitation to Stewardship
The Long Journey Home – The Machinery of Doubt: Disinformation in the Age of Separation
The Long Journey Home – The Power of Distraction: Conspiracy Theories in the Age of Unraveling
The Long Journey Home – The Ecology of Grief: Navigating Loss During and After the Great Unraveling
The Long Journey Home – Regeneration of Ecosystems, Society, and Ourselves
The Long Journey Home – Rewilding: Restoring the Wild in Ecosystems, Communities, and Ourselves
The Long Journey Home – Rewilding Ourselves: Returning to Our Innate Belonging
The Long Journey Home – Understanding the Bigger Picture: Why We Entered Global Ecological Overshoot **
The Long Journey Home – Ripples Through Time: The Infinite Causes Within Us **
The Long Journey Home – We Are Nature: Expressions of the Evolving Whole
The Long Journey Home – The Play of Life: Lila and the Universe in Motion
The Long Journey Home – Envisioning the Future: Storytelling as a Mirror, Map, and Catalyst
The Long Journey Home – Lawns in the Age of Separation: A Case Study in Control and Disconnection
The Long Journey Home – Food in the Age of Separation: The Impact on Health, Society, and Ecosystems
The Long Journey Home – The Cult of Productivity: From the Age of Separation to the Era of Regenerative Living
The Long Journey Home – The Idealization of Youth in the Age of Separation: A Culture in Denial of Time
The Long Journey Home – Trade in a Deep Partnership Civilization
The Long Journey Home – The Rise of Regionalism and Bioregionalism in the Age of Unraveling
The Long Journey Home – The Integral Mythos: A Story Big Enough for Our Time
The Long Journey Home – Bioregionalism: Living in Harmony with Local Ecosystems
The Long Journey Home – Deep Partnership Culture: Living in Connection and Reciprocity
The Long Journey Home – Disability Across Eras: From Marginalization to Integration
The Long Journey Home – What’s Truly Realistic? Overshoot or Regeneration?
The Long Journey Home – Domination and Partnership-Oriented Christianity: A Historical Exploration
The Long Journey Home – Beyond Thoughts: Discovering the Consciousness We Are
The Long Journey Home – Making Friends with Our Thoughts: Cultivating a Partnership-Oriented Mind
The Long Journey Home – The Viewpoint Illusion: How Identification with Thoughts Shapes Reality
The Long Journey Home – The Age of Regeneration: Reweaving Life, Culture, and Consciousness
The Long Journey Home – The Long Arc of Now: Embracing a Deep Time Perspective
The Long Journey Home – Cosmic and Solar Calendars: Humanity’s Fleeting Moment in Deep Time
The Long Journey Home – The Living Calendar: Timekeeping in the Age of Regeneration
The Long Journey Home – The Regenerative Synthesis: Bridging Ancestral Wisdom and Modern Science
The Long Journey Home – The Hidden Thread: Deep Partnership Orientation in Christianity
The Long Journey Home – The Hidden Depth: Moving from Shallow to Deep Partnership Orientation **
The Long Journey Home – The Hidden Current: Deep Partnership Orientation Through European History
The Long Journey Home – The Ultimate Mystery: Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
The Long Journey Home – Nature’s Resilience: How Restoring Ecosystems Prevents Flooding and Drought
The Long Journey Home – The Three Forms of Oneness: Systems, Psychological, and Consciousness
The Long Journey Home – What Was Once Radical is Now Obvious—Lessons from the Past
The Long Journey Home – Humanity Is Still Very Young
The Long Journey Home – The Power and Peril of Identifying with Thoughts
The Long Journey Home – The Collective and Intergenerational Nature of Trauma
The Long Journey Home – The Most Healthy Expression of Domination Orientation
The Long Journey Home – Reflections On the Project
The Long Journey Home – Radical Inclusion: How Deep Partnership Civilizations Embrace Disability
The Long Journey Home – The Insect Collapse: A Silent Catastrophe of the Age of Separation
The Long Journey Home – The World is My Mirror: Our Inner Community, Ecology, and Cosmos
The Long Journey Home – The Evolution of Human Culture: The Role and gifts of the Age of Separation
The Long Journey Home – The Nature of Human Bias – A Necessary and Inherent Part of Perception
The Long Journey Home – Beyond Zero-Sum Thinking: The Shift from Scarcity to Regenerative Abundance
The Long Journey Home – Why Simple, Powerful Ideas Were Overlooked in the Late Age of Separation **
The Long Journey Home – The Short Memory of the Age of Separation: Forgetting Hard-Won Lessons
The Long Journey Home – The Zero-Sum Worldview: How Domination Thinking Shaped a Political Movement
The Long Journey Home – What Collapse Meant: The Reality of Decline and Transformation
The Long Journey Home – Beyond Monocultures: The Legacy of Domination and the Path to Diversity
The Long Journey Home – The Agricultural Revolution and the Birth of Domination Culture
The Long Journey Home – The Colonized Mind: How Domination Culture Shapes Our Inner World
The Long Journey Home – Holarchies and the Spectrum of Partnership and Domination
The Long Journey Home – A System Designed for Collapse: Harm Was Easy and Regeneration Was Difficult
A DAY IN MY LIFE
The Long Journey Home – A Day in My Life, Age 16
The Long Journey Home – A Day in My Life, age 84
The Long Journey Home – A Day in My Life, Biocognitive Researcher
The Long Journey Home – A Day in My Life, Integrative Physician
The Long Journey Home – A Day in My Life, Seedkeeper & Storyteller
The Long Journey Home – A Day in My Life, a Food Forest Steward
The Long Journey Home – A Day in My Life, a Teacher
The Long Journey Home – A Day in My Life, Historian of the Seedbearers
The Long Journey Home – A Day in the Life of a City Scientist
LETTERS & PERSPECTIVE TAKING
The Long Journey Home – A Letter to the Unknown Seedbearer ***
The Long Journey Home – I Am Earth: The Story of My Becoming
REFLECTIONS ON THE PROJECT