Life works.
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Against the cold running down we call entropy, life is the energy that runs up, finds a way, expands into every possible crack in the predictable curtain of death, raises up a generation beyond itself. Life goes on. And it goes on in any of your or my short, peculiar and particular span of years.

We mostly pay attention to “death” — what harms, damages, or kills us. 
What if we were to focus at least as much on life?

        The “Leading Causes of Life” sets out to do just that.

It’s a way of thinking about reality that pays attention to what's generative for us as human beings, personally and in relation to others and the our world. It rests on an innovative, concretely useful set of five interlinked, interacting elements—with deep philosophical foundations. Taken together, they help us understand the complexity of human action and interaction and how to make better decisions.

Drumbeat:
Musings from our fellows

Creating life together
by Gary Gunderson
It can all fall apart, this democracy thing. It’s not like gravity that makes rocks fall, even if youdon’t believe in it. Democracy only lives in the mind and spirit and evaporates when we forget it. .....

​Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems
by Charmian Love and Rachel Sinha
     
About capturing the energy to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system ... seeking unusual solutions  that acknowledge the complex interconnected issues that make a failing system so hard to transform.
Find out more about the 5 "leading causes of life"
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​Agency
Coherence
Connection
Hope
Intergenerativity/
​Blessing​
​Life is what it is about
I want no truck with death.
– Pablo Neruda
Life has a way of rolling, not unlike a 'murmuration,' something starlings and other birds do.
This is a wonderful example of emergent, dynamic complexity that cannot be explained by inorganic or linear logic,
​only by life.
I have set before you life and death, blessings and cursings; therefore,
choose life, that both you and
​your descendants may live.
– Deuteronomy 30:19