1Spoken words by the character Harriet Tubman, in the 2019 movie, “Harriett.”
2“Worrying Trends In US Suicide Rates,” American Psychological Association, March, 2019, https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/03/trends-suicide
3Andrew Harvey, Carolyn Baker, Savage Grace: Living Resiliently In The Dark Night of The Globe, iUniverse, 2017, p.18.
4“Quantum Medicine For the Coronavirus,” Paul Levy, April 2020, https://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/quantum-medicine-for-coronavirus
5Andrew Harvey, The Hope: A Guide To Sacred Activism, Hay House, 2009, p.84.
6https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satprem (Satprem and The Mother collaborated in studying and disseminating the teachings of Sri Aurobindo.)
7“Does the Coronavirus Inspire Optimism or Pessimism?” Paul Levy, Awaken in the Dream, April 6, 2020, https://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/coronavirus-optimism-pessimissm
8Ibid.
9Ibid.
10Ibid.
11“Impact of climate change on human infectious diseases: Empirical evidence and human adaptation,” Science Direct, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412015300489?via%3Dihub
12 ‘Tip of the iceberg’: is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?” March 18, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe
13“The Next Pandemic Could Be Hiding in the Arctic Permafrost,” New Republic, April 2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/157129/next-pandemic-
hiding-arctic-permafrost
14Lancet, “Managing the health effects of climate change: Lancet and University College London Institute for Global Health Commission.” 2009, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32596-6/fulltext
15“Climate Change and Health Risks: Assessing and Responding to Them Through ‘Adaptive Management’,” Health Affairs Journal, 2011, https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0071
16“The Great Initiation,” Richard Tarnas, 1998, https://tiffanyabrown.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/tarnas.pdf
17‘If you don’t initiate your young men into the tribe, they will burn down the village’, November 2, 2014, Inside Man http://www.inside-man.co.uk/2014/11/02/if-you-dont-initiate-your-young-men-they-will-burn-down-the-village/
18Michael Meade, Why The World Doesn’t End, Greenfire Press, 2012, p. 134.
19Wikipedia, Mircea Eliade, “Initiation” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiation
20Ibid.
21Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity, North Atlantic, 2013, p. 237.
22Richard Rohr, Adam’s Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation, Crossroad Publishing, 2016.
23“The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism,” Lion’s Roar Magazine, March 12, 2018, https://www.lionsroar.com/what-are-the-four-noble-truths/
24Richard Rohr, Adam’s Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation, p. 29.
25Ibid., p. 37.
26Wikipedia, Mircea Eliade, “Initiation” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initiation
27Charles Eisenstein, Climate: A New Story, North Atlantic, 2019, p. 8.
28Progressive Radio Network, “The Lifeboat Hour,” August 28, 2015, Carolyn Baker and Stephen Jenkinson, http://prn.fm/lifeboat-hour-08-28-15/
29Ibid.
30Adyashanti, in “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment,” p. 136.
31Betty Kovacs, Merchants of Light, Kamlak Center Publications, Claremont, California, 2019, p. 104.
32Ibid., p. 129.
33Joseph Campbell, The Hero’s Journey, Harper & Row, 1990, p. 233.
34“Feeling Hopeless? Embrace It, New York Times, July 25, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/24/opinion/hopeless-covid-climate.html
35Rising seas, stress levels spawn climate anxiety support groups, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climate-change-eco-anxiety/rising-seas-stress-levels-spawn-climate-anxiety-support-groups-idUSKBN1X21P2
36Charles Eisenstein, New Story Hub website, June 2018, http://newstoryhub.com/2018/06/a-new-story-of-climate-change-charles-eisenstein-at-new-frontiers/
37Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, Vintage, 1989, pp. xiii–xiv.
38Betty Kovacs, Merchants of Light, p. 191.
39Wikipedia, Greco-Roman Mysteries, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries#Samothracian_Mysteries
40Kovacs, Merchants of Light, p. 192.
41Kovacs, Merchants of Light, p. 426.
42Thomas Berry website, http://thomasberry.org/
43Brian Swimme website, http://storyoftheuniverse.org/
44“Comprehensive Compassion,” Brian Swimme, The Great Story.org, http://thegreatstory.org/SwimmeWIE.pdf
45“Existential Threat to Civilization”: Planetary Tipping Points Make Climate Bets Too Dangerous, Scientists Warn, Common Dreams, November 28, 2019, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/11/28/existential-threat-civilization-
planetary-tipping-points-make-climate-bets-too
46Standing Rock Protests, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline_protests
47Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/
48Poor Peoples’ Campaign, https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/
49Positive Deep Adaptation, https://jembendell.com/
50Kovacs, Merchants of Light, p. 446.
51“How Are Gene Mutations Involved In Evolution?” National Institutes of Health, December 2019, https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/mutationsanddisorders/evolution
52“How Does a Caterpillar Turn Into a Butterfly?” Scientific American, August 10, 2012, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caterpillar-butterfly-
metamorphosis-explainer/
53“What Happens Inside the Chrysalis of a Butterfly?” Sciencing, https://sciencing.com/happens-inside-chrysalis-butterfly-8148799.html
54Paul Levy, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, Select Books, 2018.
5555 John Keats, (1899). The Complete Poetical Works and Letters of John Keats, Cambridge Edition. Houghton Mifflin and Company. p. 277.
56“The Ten Powers of the Universe,” Brian Swimme, Ecopsychology Journal Online, 2004, https://www.ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/swimme.html
57Video, “Ten Powers of the Universe,” https://storyoftheuniverse.org/store-2/dvd/the-powers-of-the-universe/
58“Ten Powers of the Universe, Creative Fire, 2016, http://www.kreativefire.com/PowersoftheUniverse.html
59“Over 270 New Species Described In 2018,” Natural History Museum, London, https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2018/december/over-270-new-species-discovered-in-2018.html
60“Ten Powers of the Universe, http://www.kreativefire.com/PowersoftheUniverse.html
61“The Importance of Ancestral Connection: An Interview with Malidoma Somé,” by Rosette Royale, http://www.bluedeer.org/articles/the-importance-
of-ancestral-connection-an-interview-with-malidoma-some-by-rosette-royale
62Ibid. Malidoma Somé and Rosette Royale.
63Printed with permission from Eric Stikes.
64“One million species at risk of extinction, UN report warns,” National Geographic, Stephen Leahy, May 2019, https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/05/ipbes-un-biodiversity-report-warns-one-
million-species-at-risk/
65Ibid., National Geographic, Stephen Leahy.
66United Nations Emissions Gap Report, November 2019, https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/30798/EGR19ESEN.pdf?sequence=13
67“11,000 Scientists From Around The World Declare A Climate Emergency,” Washington Post, Andrew Freedman, November 5, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/11/05/more-than-scientists-around-
world-declare-climate-emergency/
68International Union for Conservation of Nature, December 2019, https://portals.iucn.org/library/node/48892
69Australia fires: blazes ‘too big to put out’ as 140 bushfires rage in NSW and Queensland, Guardian, December 7, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/dec/07/australia-fires-blazes-too-big-to-put-out-as-140-bushfires-rage-in-nsw-and-queensland
70Ibid. Guardian, December 7, 2019.
71“UN Chief Warns of ‘Point of No Return’ On Climate Change,” NBC News, December 2, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-n-chief-warns-
point-no-return-climate-change-n1093956
72“Are We on the Road to Civilisation Collapse?” Luke Kemp, BBC, https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190218-are-we-on-the-road-to-civilisation-collapse
73“Do today’s global protests have anything in common?” BBC, November 2019, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-50123743
74Bessel Van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Penguin, 2014, p. 97.
75Philip Shepherd, New Self, New World, North Atlantic Publishing, 2010, p. 275.
76Ibid., p. 277.
77Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement, Berlin Family Lectures, University of Chicago Press, p. 11.
78Ibid., p. 30.
79Ibid, pp. 80–81.
80Ibid., p. 119.
81Ibid., p. 161.
82“New Dark Age by James Bridle review—technology and the end of the future,” Will Self, Guardian, June 30, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jun/30/new-dark-age-by-james-bridle-review-technology-and-the-end-of-the-future
83Ibid.
84“Rage against the systems: James Bridle’s new polemic is a call to arms,” Ben Eastham, Art Review, May 2018, https://artreview.com/reviews/ar_may_2018_books_james_bridle_new_dark_age/
85Ibid.
86Shoshana Zuboff, Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Hachette Book Group, 2019, pp. 7–8.
87Shoshana Zuboff, “You Are Now Remotely Controlled,” New York Times, January 24, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html.
88Ibid.
89Ibid.
90Journal of Unification Studies, “Nicholas of Cusa: His Idea of the Coincidence of Opposites and the Concept of Unity in Unification Thought”, Vol. 3, 1999–2000, pp. 117–129.
91Negative Capability, John Keats, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_capability
92Charles Upton, The System of Anti-Christ: Truth and Falsehood in Postmodernism and the New Age, Sophia Perrenis, 2001, p. 14.
93Ibid., p.17.
94“Covid-19 is a a Symbol of a Much Deeper Infection—The Wetiko Mind-Virus,” Paul Levy, April 2020, https://www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/covid-19-
wetiko
95Ibid.
96Ibid.
97Ibid.
98“Gross misjudgment: Experts say Trump’s decision to disband pandemic team hindered coronavirus response,” USA Today, March 18, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/03/18/coronavirus-did-president-trumps-decision-disband-global-pandemic-office-hinder-response/5064881002/
99“Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says ‘there are more important things than living’ to justify reopening the state’s economy,” Business Insider, April 21, 2020, https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-there-are-
more-important-things-than-living-2020-4
100“America’s Coronapocalpyse,” Umair Haque, Medium, July 17, 2020, https://eand.co/americas-coronapocalypse-3a518d4d77b4
101Bill McKibben, Falter, Henry Holt, 2019, pp. 134–135.
102Ibid., p. 142.
103Ibid., p. 143.
104Ibid.
105Ibid., p. 146.
106Ibid., p. 174.
107Yuval Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Harper Collins, 2017, p. 323.
108Ibid., pp. 349–350.
109Ibid., p. 355.
110Ibid., pp. 400–401.
111“Hungary’s PM Uses Pandemic to Seize Unlimited Power,” Human Rights Watch, March 23, 2020, https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/03/23/hungarys-orban-uses-pandemic-seize-unlimited-power#
112Candace B. Pert, Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine, Simon & Schuster, 1997, p. 315.
113Paul Levy, The Quantum Revelation: A Radical Synthesis of Science and Spirituality, New York, Select Books, 2018, p. 106.
114Ibid., p.118.
115Lynne McTaggart, The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, New York, Harper Collins, 2002, pp. xv–xvi.
116“Scientific and Religious Truth,” Werner Heisenberg, Cross Currents Journal, Vol. 24, No. 4 (Winter 1975), pp. 463–473.
117Charles Eisenstein, Climate: The New Story, North Atlantic Books, 2019, pp. 246247.
118Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body, Jeremy Tarcher, 1992, pp. 156–157.
119Satprem, The Adventure of Consciousness, Discovery Publishing, 2015, p. 234.
120Ibid., pp. 235–236.
121Researchgate Summary of Quantum Self, Danah Zohar, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273755770_Quantum_Self-By_Danah_Zohar
122“The Research of Candace Pert,” https://www.equilibrium-e3.com/images/PDF/The%20Research%20of%20Candace%20Pert.pdf
123Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, The Complete Works of Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, 1998, p. 9.
124Kuruvilla Pandikattu, Religious Dialogue as Hermeneutics: Bede Griffith’s Advaitic Approach to Religions, Indian Philosophical Studies, The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2001, p. 120.
125Bede Griffiths, A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith, Templegate Publishers, 1990, p. 83.
126“Bonhoeffer on the Stupidity That Led to Hitler’s Rise,” Intellectual Takeout, April 2016, https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/bonhoeffer-stupidity-
led-hitlers-rise
127“Trump’s New Favorite COVID Doctor Believes in Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine,” CNN, July 29, 2020, https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine
128His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, A Call For Revolution, William Morrow, p. 3.
129“Silence and Solitude In Ramana Marharishi,” Hermitary Resources and Reflections, https://www.hermitary.com/solitude/ramana.html
130Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot, Bantam, 1983, p. 254.
131Francis Weller writings, “An Apprenticeship With Sorrow,” https://www.francisweller.net/writings.html
132“Comprehensive Compassion,” an interview with Brian Swimme, 2003, The Great Story website, http://thegreatstory.org/SwimmeWIE.pdf
133Sri Aurobindo, The Adventure of Consciousness, Discovery Publisher, 2015, p. 234.
134Andrew Harvey, Son of Man, Tarcher Perigee, 1999, p. 91.
135Charles Eisenstein, Climate: The New Story, p. 11.
136Ibid., pp. 207–208.
137The Essential Teachings of Zen Master Dogen, San Francisco, Shambhala, p. 179.
138Andrew Harvey, Turn Me To Gold, p. 83.
139The Complete Poetry of William Blake, Erdman Archive, Song 9, http://erdman.blakearchive.org/#Little%20Black%20Boy
140Andrew Harvey, Light Upon Light, Tarcher, 2004, p. 96.
141“Kali Takes America: I’m With Her,” Vera de Chalambert, Rebelle Society, November 2016, http://www.rebellesociety.com/2016/11/18/veradechalambert-
kali/
142Andrew Harvey, Turn Me to Gold, p. 188.
143Andrew Harvey, Teachings of the Christian Mystics, “His Work Is Perfect,” Shambhala, 1998, p. 146.
144Andrew Harvey, Light Upon Light, p. 114.
145Andrew Harvey, Turn Me to Gold, p. 176.
146Satprem, Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 1 and 2, Institute for Evolutionary Research, 1979.
147Satprem, Evolution II, Institute for Evolutionary Research, 1993.
148Andrew Harvey, Turn Me to Gold, p. 31.
149Michael Meade, Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World, Greenfire Press, 2018, p. 98.
150John Lewis, Emory University Commencement Speech, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r3kypsRGnk&feature=emb_logo.
151“Captain Tom Moore’s NHS appeal tops £32m on 100th birthday” BBC, https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52472132
152Andrew Harvery, Light Upon Light, p. 198.
153Theodore Roethke, “In a Dark Time” from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, Copyright © 1963 by Beatrice Roethke, Administratrix of the Estate of Theodore Roethke. Used by permission of Doubleday, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
154A Companion to Meister Eckhart, ed. by Jeremiah Hackett, Brill Publications, 2013, p. 160.
155Paul Levy, Dispelling Wetiko, North Atlantic Books, 2013, p. 85.
156“Let’s Spread the Word: Wetiko,” Paul Levy, Unsettling America Website, January 2012, https://unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com/tag/wetiko/
157Dictionary.Com: “Magnanimous” https://www.dictionary.com/browse/noble?s=t
158Pir Zia Inayat-Khan, Saracen Chivalry, Omega Publications, 2012, pp. i–iii.
159Ibid., p. 82.
160Walt Whitman, Song of Myself, Book 3, American Renaissance Books, 2017, p. 84.
161Ibid., p. 139.
162Jack Adam Weber, Climate Cure: Healing Ourselves to Heal the Planet, p. 122.
163Carolyn Baker, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse, iUniverse, 2009, p. 195.
164Andrew Harvey, Becoming God: 108 Epigrams from the Cherubinic Pilgrim by Angelus Silesius, iUniverse, 2019, p. 23.
165Matthew Fox, The Tao of Thomas Aquinas: Fierce Wisdom for Hard Times, iUniverse, 2020.
166Ibid.
167Ibid.
168Andrew Harvey, Becoming God, iUniverse, 2019, p.55.
169Andrew Harvey,
170Brian Swimme, “The Ten Powers of The Universe, The Journal of Ecopsychology, 2004, https://www.ecopsychology.org/journal/ezine/swimme.html
171Sounds True, “Knowing Your Shadow,” Robert Augustus Masters, https://www.soundstrue.com/collections/authors-robert-augustus-masters/products/knowing-your-shadow