Ecology of Spirit

Cultivating an Essential Sensitivity

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BIOGRAPHY

Ph.D. Philosophy and Religion (ongoing)

M.A. Philosophy and Religion

B.A. World Literature and Cultural Studies,
Minor in Education

Living, working, loving, playing in the Shasta Bioregion, roughly northern California at the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers near San Francisco Bay in the North Pacific Rim of the Pacific Basin within Earth’s planetary biosphere at Orion’s Arm of the Milky Way galaxy in the Virgo Supercluster, sailing through the Universe, Multiverse, and beyond.

Twitter: @vrtxrvltn

TALKS/PRESENTATIONS

A Philosophy of Utopia: Esalen Talk

Astrology in Human Evolution: From the Stone Age to the New Age

Bioregional Brilliance: Joy and Freedom in the Play of Watershed Consciousness

Civilization as a Cosmic Crime: The Role and Contribution of Insurrectionary and Ecological Resistance Movements in Identifying and Eliminating (Psycho-Physical) Energy Blockages that Generate Conditions for Suffering

Collapse Criminology: Terrorism, Ecology, and the Biosemiotics of Extremism

Critical Utopianism: Green Anarchy, Eco-Decentralism, and the Bioregional Ideal

EcoMagic: Principles and Practice of Ecologically-Oriented Magical Defense (and Attack)

Heretics in Love: Christian Anarchy and the New Age

Magic, Mysticism, and the Redirection of Energy

Rage as a Cosmic Force: Big History and Justice in the Classroom and on the Street

Revolutionary Magic for a Free Society: Simon Magus’ Integral Approach to Archetypal Resonance (From Fourth to Fifth Generation Warfare)

The Spirit of A.I.: Morality and Energy in Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s Cosmic Vision of Complex Consciousness

BOOKS

Catalog of Bioregional Primary Sources

How Marijuana Will Save the World: The Cultural Criticism of an Unhappy Citizen

You are the End of My Night (Short Story)

PAPERS

Accelerating Hate: Atomwaffen Division, Contemporary Digital Fascism, and Insurrectionary Accelerationism (Forthcoming)

An Unbridled Power: Divinity, Chrematistics, and the (en)Closure of the Anthropocene

Time, Order, and the Millennial Constant: Eric Voegelin’s Relevance to Big History and the Future of Humanities

BOOK REVIEWS 

Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir By Deborah A. Miranda

Choosing a Sustainable Future: ideas and inspiration from Ithaca, NY By Liz Walker

Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath By Ted Koppel

Technique and Obsolescence: Meditations on the Religiosity of Tubes

RESEARCH INTERESTS
(In no particular order)

5th Generation Warfare
Accelerationism
Activist Ethnography
Anarchism
Anarchist Criminology
Anarchist Economics
Anarchist methodologies
Anarchist Pedagogy
Anarchist Philosophy of Education
Anarchist Studies
Anarcho-Primitivism
Anarchy
Animal Rights/Liberation
Anthropology
Anti-civilization Anarchism
Archaeology
Archetypal Cosmology
Artificial Intelligence
Astrology
Auto-ethnography
Axiology
Big History
Bioregionalism
Biosemiotics
Blockchains
Chrematistics
Civilization
Climate Change
Conservation Criminology
Cosmic Evolution
Counterintelligence
Crime and Intelligence Analysis
Critical Animal Studies
Critical Cartography
Critical Criminology
Critical Legal Studies
Critical Legal Theory
Critical Security Studies
Critical Terrorism Studies
Critical Youth Studies
Cultural power and resistance
Culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning
Curriculum and Instruction
Cyber Warfare
Cyberwarfare
Dark Ecology
Decolonization
Deep History
Direct Action
Early State Formation
Eco-Extremism
Eco-sabotage
Ecological Crime
Ecological Resistance Movements
Ecology
Ecopedagogy
Education
Egalitarianism
Emancipatory Research
Enantiodromia
Environmental Crime
Environmental Criminology
Environmental Sustainability
Eric Voegelin
Esoteric Systems
Etiology
FBI History
Feminist Security Studies
Future Studies
Futures Studies and Foresight
Gifted and Talented Education
Green Anarchism
Green Criminology
Green Cultural Criminology
Hieros Gamos
History
Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology
Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways
Hunter-Gatherers (Anthropology)
Iconomics
Indigenous Knowledge
Indigenous Resistance
Indigenous Studies
Insurgency
Insurgency and counterinsurgency
Insurgency/Counterinsurgency(COIN)
Insurrectionary Theory
Integral ecology
Integral Methodological Pluralism (IMP)
Integral Philosophy
Intelligence Analysis
John Zerzan
Jungian psychology (Religion)
Lawfare
Legal Realism
Literature and Society
Logos Spermatikos
Luddism
Magic
Magic and the Occult (Anthropology Of Religion)
Middle School/Level Education
Militant Research
Military Intelligence
Miracles
Monkeywrenching
Mythology and Rewilding
National Security
Neo Luddism
New Cosmology
New Materialisms
New Religions
Nomadology
Occupation and Resistance in WW2
Palaeolithic Archaeology
Paleoanthropology
Paleolithic Archaeology
Paleolithic Religion
Peace and Conflict Studies
Permaculture
Permaculture and Resilient Communites
Permaculture Design
Philosophical Anthropology
Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN
Philosophy for Children (P4C)
Philosophy for High School Students
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence
Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Technology
Philosophy of Time
Philosophy with Children
Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism
Political Philosophy
Political Science
Political Theology
Political Violence
Political Violence and Terrorism
Post-Anarchism
Post-left anarchism
Power
Power and domination
Prehistoric Archaeology
Primitivism
Radical Criminology
Radical Ecopsychology
Radical Educational Philosophy
Radical Geography
Radical Pedagogy
Radical Political Economy
Radicalization
Reinhabitation
Religion and Ecology
Religion and Violence
Religious Studies
Research Methodology
Resistance
Resistance (Social)
Rewilding
Service Learning
Shamanism, Pagan studies, Animism
Ship of Fools
Simon Magus
Social Justice
Social Movements
Social movements and revolution
Social Production of Space
Social Research Methods and Methodology
Social Sciences
Social Studies Education
Social War
Societal Collapse
Soteriology
Surveillance Studies
Terrorism
Thomas Berry
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Transformative Learning
Trickster
Uncivilization/anti-civilization
Unschooling
Unschooling and Deschooling
Utopian Studies
Violence
Violent Non-State Actors
Wilderness therapy
Wildism
World Systems Analysis
World-Ecology
World-Systems Analysis
World-Systems Theory

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