Otto Scharmer: The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare and transformative AI represents a rupture of comparable magnitude.
Broadcaster Ian Skelly, co-author of the book Harmony, talks about a new film which explores the environmental philosophy and practical achievements of King Charles III
Sabahat Fida contemplates the implications of the caterpillar’s transformation for our understanding of identity
The village you left only hours before — so central then — now rests distant, far below, a small point on a broader unfolding. From this higher vantage, the landscape widens and reframes the familiar in a broader context, inviting the mind to stretch gently beyond its former edges, toward a new horizon.
Otto Scharmer: Bali, with its thousand-year-old Tri Hita Karana philosophy (harmony with nature, harmony with each other, and harmony with the divine) is an important ancestral home of the Theory U framework and practice.