Emergence and design
Design is creation by us. Emergence is creation within and through us.
Humanity is Beautiful
Kindling Executive Director Peter Schulte’s upcoming book “Humanity is Beautiful” examines humanity’s limiting stories about itself; unearths a new, more helpful story. Here Kindling patrons can read early excerpts and drafts.
Inner genius
Where outer genius is the process of creating something outside ourselves, inner genius is the process of creating something within ourselves or perhaps rather growing ourselves into something new.
“People never really change”
Given the right circumstances, wider, new ways of being and perceiving are always available to all of us.
Expanding eye
As our minds become more complex, we gain a wider perspective on what is happening around us and who we are. We see a fuller picture of what is. We gain a “higher” perspective.
Kegan’s theory of adult development
Conventional wisdom tells us that human minds “max out” somewhere around the time we reach 25. However, over the last several decades this conventional wisdom has been seriously challenged.
Piaget’s theory of child development
Albert Einstein called Piaget’s insight “so simple only a genius could have thought of it.”
An adult’s expanding mind
The entire experience of my life has been progressively coming into more nuanced, balanced, and mature points of view. So far, this process has never stopped.
A child’s expanding mind
The process of a child’s mental development has happened billions of times now throughout human history. And yet it still feels miraculous.
The first fire
This is the moment some group of Homo Sapiens or Neanderthals or Homo Habilis or Australopithecus became human.
Prometheus
On a literal level, Prometheus gave us all the practical benefits of warmth, cooking, etc. that go along with fire. On a metaphorical level, Prometheus also gave us the fire of invention.