Welcome to Awakening Democracy

With increasing pressures and stresses on ourselves and the planet, it is growing ever urgent that our practice of democracy sufficiently evolve so that we may come to live in greater balance with the Earth, and with each other.

If we are to live in harmony, safety and trust, with confidence, ease and hope, and in gratitude and celebration of life, it's my belief that we will have to find a way to bring how we understand and do politics into accord with our most deeply shared values and needs.

I expect that it will become more and more apparent that a vibrant, citizen democracy, based on meaningful and widespread popular participation, is essential to our present and future well-being and survival.

It's my wish that this blog serve as a nurturing place for us to awaken the sleeping desire inside each of us—the passion and sense of purpose we feel in enriching the lives of others. I think you can appreciate that it will take a significant generation of awakened energy to reorganize ourselves to address our imbalances and heal the wounds that are awaiting our collective attention.

Through cultivating a shared vision of how we want to live, the possibility for authentic democracy opens up, and we expand the collective capacity required of us to create the kind of world we want to see. But we can only first take a step in this direction after we truly get in touch with our desire to go there.

Awakening democracy is about exploring our willingness to step out with courage and speak from the heart, and it is also about meeting what resistances appear to prevent our often sleeping desire from moving towards realization.

I offer understanding, compassion and support as we discover what is easy and difficult within us, and collectively awaken to greater empowerment.

This is a place of co-creation, so I invite you to share your thoughts and feelings and visions here as, together, we explore this path, and make the road by walking.

Through love,
John