The climate crisis is not a technological crisis. It is not a political problem. It isn’t even a scientific conundrum. Instead, it requires us to reorient ourselves from the thinking that got us into the crisis to a new way of thinking that is entirely congruent with both Buddhism and Quantum Physics. Stated simply, the existential crisis we are facing is a relational crisis through-and-through, and calls for a relational approach led by Indigenous people and their allies. The good news: this is already underway!
Join us for this EcoDharma Exploration featuring a scholar of wide-ranging domains, including climate trauma, thermodynamics, Natural Law, and Buddhism, Zhiwa Woodbury where we’ll open ourselves to some of the most challenging of galvanizing teachings of our time.
We’ll gather live over Zoom on November 10, 2024, 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM US Eastern / 8:30 to 10:30 AM US Pacific / 5:30 to 7:30 PM CET. If you can’t make it to the gathering, a recording will be available within a week of the live event.
Registration for this exploration is open and we encourage you to register early. We welcome your contributions to support this donation-based program, the featured guest, and One Earth Sangha. We can’t do this without you!
Zhiwa Woodbury is a panpsychologist (panpsychism-informed psychology), visionary and long time advocate for all things natural and wild. He studied Thermodynamics, Science/Math and Communications at Southern Illinois University before obtaining a doctorate in Natural Law (1983). After a successful career advocating for wildlife and wild places, he returned to school and obtained an M.A. in East/West Psychology, with an emphasis on quantum eco-psychology and spiritual counseling, and also trained and served at world-renowned Zen Hospice in San Francisco. Zhiwa is a vajrayana practitioner who follows Hua-Yen philosophy and practices Kalacakra tantrayana. He is the author of Climate Sense ~ Changing the Way We Think & Feel About Our Climate in Crisis, and two influential lead articles in the peer reviewed journal Ecopsychology: “Climate Crisis & the Cosmic Bomb: Is the American Dream an Expression of Cultural Trauma” (Dec. 2015) and “Climate Trauma: Towards a New Taxonomy of Trauma” (March 2019).
