Introduction and Table of Contents

I am Robert Riversong, prophet, teacher, guide, midwife for a world struggling to be born.

You are a spark of the universal flame. Welcome to the journey.

Contents:

What Does “Green” Really Mean?

Preparing for the Shift

A Collective Rite of Passage

From Shadow to Rainbow

Altimeter Readers and Parachute Packers

Of Prophets and Hope

The Art of Surrender

A New Green History of the World – Clive Ponting

Gaia and the Dying of Anima Mundi  – Animate Earth, Stephan Harding

Collision Course with the Future – based on Gus Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World

Crossing the Threshold – Charles Eisenstein  Sacred Economics at Reality Sandwich

The Lost Language of Plants – Stephen Harrod Buhner

Out of Equilibrium – Into the Maelstrom

Earth as a Sacred Trust

Thinking Like a Mountain

Thomas Paine’s Radicalism

The Thermodynamics of an Intelligent Living Universe

Ideas are not Property

Standing by Words

Science & Secular Humanism

Science & Religion – Locking Horns

Death by Medicine

The U.S. is AWOL

The Real Second Amendment

Civil War: The Conquest of Agrarianism by Industrialism

Short History of Property, Labor, Wealth, Profit & Taxation

The Myth of Corporate Personhood

Five essays on the takeover of American democracy by corporations and how we can – and must – take it back for We the People.

1. The Pernicious Fiction of Corporate Personhood
2. Corporations are Not People
3. Justice Lewis Powell and the Rise of the Corporate State
4. “A Constant Preference of Public to Private Interest”
5. The People’s Rights Amendment

The End of the World – Bibliography of Collapse

How Beer Invented the World

Health Impacts of a Grain-Based Agriculture

The Guns of Columbine

Lead, Crime & Societal Breakdown – A Cautionary Tale of Unintended Consequences