The Cycles of Civilizations

Looking at the rise and fall of historical civilizations, the forces that precipitate or delay a collapse can tell us about our own.

We can define collapse as a rapid and enduring loss of population, identity, and socio-economic complexity. Public services fold, and chaos ensues as...

Among the values prized in early Japanese culture was mujo. 

Mujo was defined classically for me as recognition of “the turning of the wheel of the law,” implying acceptance of the inevitability of change, of rise and fall. . . . In other words, mujo means...

There are three ways as to how the moon can affect life on earth:

• Time
• Tide
• Light

The moon has been embedded in many life cycles of many organisms. It has been there ever since the evolution has been ...