Exploring Nature, Culture and Inner Life

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in a conversation with author, activist, and anti-preneur Alnoor Ladha. Find out more about Alnoor by reading his article in Kosmos Journal: "Mystical Anarchism: A Journey to the Borderlands of Freedom." https://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/mystical-anarchism-a-journey-to-the-borderlands-of-freedom/

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

~Co-presented with Commonweal Resilience Project, Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere, and The Fan Initiative~ Can we avoid civilizational collapse? We face a “perfect storm” of interacting global stressors. Is resilience a possible response? What does real resilience look like? Join some of the foremost thinkers in an inquiry into the greatest challenge of our time. Our keynote speakers are Nate Hagens and Joanna Macy, leading authorities in the field.

2019.04.27 - Michael Lerner at Healing Circles Langley - Inquiry as Method by The New School at Commonweal

Stephen Ratcliffe’s “sound of wave in channel” is the fifth in a series of 1,000 poems written in 1,000 consecutive days (1.1.13 – 6.26.16). He and TNS host Steve Heilig discuss this newest epic and his career in poetry, with readings from his work. Stephen Ratcliffe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including most recently Painting (Chax Press 2014) and Selected Days (Counterpath 2012) which won The Poetry Center Book Award. He has also written three books of literary criticism. He taught at Mills College for many years and has lived in Bolinas since 1973.

~Part of the End-of-Life Conversations Series~ ~Co-presented with the Mesa Refuge and Point Reyes Books~ Join TNS Host Steve Heilig in conversation with physician, author, and medical ethicist Sunita Puri in the next in our End-of-Life Conversations series. In her new book, That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, she weaves evocative stories of her family and the patients she cares for in a meditation on impermanence and the role of medicine in helping us to live and die well. Kirkus Reviews magazine calls her book, “A profound meditation on a problem many of us will face; worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal.” Sunita Puri, MD is the medical director of the Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Service at the Keck Hospital and Norris Cancer Center of the University of Southern California, where she also serves as chair of the Ethics Committee. She graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Anthropology and studied Modern History at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. She completed medical school and residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medicine at Stanford University.

Join TNS Host Michael Lerner in an interview with painter, writer, and translator Eric Karpeles as they discuss two new books about Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski: Almost Nothing: The 20th-Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski and Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp.