Gus diZerega – Page 5 – SPIRIT | NATURE

Circles and Lines in “The Wolf at Twilight”

Posted on September 29, 2016June 23, 2017 by Gus

I was started along this line of thought while reading Kent Nerburn’s powerful, moving, painful and hauntingly beautiful The Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder’s Journey through a Land of Ghosts and Shadows. There are many levels to this … Read more

The Trance of Belief: Part I.

Posted on April 27, 2016October 15, 2018 by Gus

I have been both fascinated and appalled at how quickly mostly the political right has abandoned reason and evidence in favor of assertion and arrogance in discussing issues. Here is what I think is going on. I published it in … Read more

Spontaneous Order and Liberalism’s Complex Relation to Democracy

Posted on February 8, 2016June 29, 2018 by Gus

Spontaneous orders are natural outgrowths of liberal principles and a better understanding of them sheds light on a fateful split between nineteenth-century American and European liberal traditions that remains very relevant today. This essay is my most complete discussion of … Read more

Social Justice from a Pagan Perspective

Posted on February 4, 2016February 4, 2016 by Gus

On January 23, 2016, I gave this paper as the keynote speaker at the Conference of Current Pagan Studies, in Claremont, California. It was well received and I want to make it available to anyone who is interested.

Social … Read more

My Near Death Experience in Maine: And a powerful lesson in compassion

Posted on January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 by Gus

Foster Gamble Again

Posted on December 14, 2015December 14, 2015 by Gus

A couple of days ago I received an email from a Pagan list connecting to a “New Paradigm” conference where prominent speakers would be libertarians mixing a dose of conspiracy theory, libertarian boilerplate, and New Age rhetoric into a supposed … Read more

What is Indigenaity in Religion?

Posted on November 19, 2015April 17, 2021 by Gus

With small changes this article appeared in The Interfaith Observer.

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Can indigenous peoples not practice indigenous religions? What if a non-indigenous person claims to practice their religion? Can people normally not considered indigenous have an indigenous religion? Can … Read more

Not Just Construction: the shadow side of large organizations

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Gus

Why do big organizations so often seem perverse, and why do people who are a part of them so often seem as if they have become different people? Why do these most impressive of our social creations seem to become … Read more

Hayekian Insights on Capitalism Part III: Capitalism and Nature

Posted on October 29, 2015October 29, 2015 by Gus

Capitalism undermines the natural systems that support human well-being for the same reason it undermines civil society: the values it elevates above all others are incompatible with human or natural flourishing. Capitalism fails to achieve the minimal ethical standards to … Read more

Capitalism 3.0: A Wonderful Book

Posted on October 29, 2015 by Gus

Peter Barnes, a founder of the progressive phone company Credo and of the Mesa Refuge, has written Capitalism 3.0, a very important book on how the threat of global warming could be solved quickly from within a market context. Sadly … Read more