Drawing on the work and insights of many colleagues and from ongoing conversations, this paper was written in an effort to connect the dots and engage a serious conversation about the causes of the existential crisis we face, while bringing a message of hope and possibility.
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This guide was prepared to accompany David Korten’s article, “Religion, Science, and Spirit: A Sacred Story for Our Time.”
Thank you for reading David’s “Sacred Story.” It is, at once, a very personal story and a global story, inviting deep reflection and conversation. Engaging in conversation is a powerful way […]
by Tim Fox, from McKenzie River Watershed, OR, in response to David Korten’s article, “Religion, Science, and Spirit: A Sacred Story for Our Time,” February 1, 2013.
Dear David,
First, thank you for all you do and for helping make YES! a reality. Positive visions can be hard to find, and as you point […]
by Roberto Vargas, December 14, 2012, in response to David Korten’s article, “Religion, Science and Spirit: A Sacred Story for Our Time.”
The night was cool and moonless, perfect for sitting around a backyard camp fire, wrapped in blankets and gazing into the skies. Wife, daughter, niece and I were sky watching for […]
(Originally published by YES! Magazine, January 18, 2013, posted here with permission.)
Twenty years ago, David Korten began wrestling with the question, had we become too individualistic and shortsighted to save our species? Here’s what he discovered about the power of foundational stories to keep us trapped in a suicidal economy—or awaken us […]
(Originally published by YES! Magazine, January 18, 2013, posted here, with permission. For the background, analysis, and inspiration for this essay, see David’s Personal Story Behind the Essay.)
Is it possible that the human future depends upon a new sacred story—a story […]
Zenobia Jeffries Warfield, executive editor of YES! Magazine, engaged David in a conversation for the Spring 2021 issue of YES! The theme for this special 25th anniversary issue is “What an ecological civilization looks like.” With permission, their conversation is published here.
Zenobia’s introduction:
A wild card, often called a joker, is a playing card that has no value of its own but can be used to represent any other card, thus assuming the value of that card. We might think of money, most of which is nothing but a number on a piece of paper or a computer […]
Ownership debates usually center on a choice between capitalism (private ownership) and socialism (government ownership). They largely avoid the foundational question: Is power shared and accountable to We the People—all the people? Similarly, discussions of individual rights, including rights of ownership, rarely note that all rights necessarily come with responsibilities.
The African Ubuntu Principle (“I […]
Economists claim their assessments are based on settled science. Yet the assumptions underlying their assessments are contradicted by both logic and real-world observation.
The Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz suggests that economics, as currently taught and practiced, is less a science than “…the West’s prevailing religion.” Mainstream economists bear major responsibility for promoting what Pope Francis […]
