FACING THE HEART OF EARTH'S PREDICAMENT IN FICTION AND FILM

ENVISION THIS: A hero that helps us confront the destructive paradigms of the Global Industrial Empire before we self-destruct. Timothy Scott Bennett is the author of All the Above, fiction that helps us to acknowledge and confront the paradigms that underlie our conscious pursuit of Empire and our unconscious pursuit of economic, ecological, and moral collapse. With his wife, Sally Erickson, he also produced the film What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire that documents the harrowing facts of the present predicament of Planet Earth. Sally Erickson is also an artist, psychotherapist, vegetable farmer, community organizer, leader at Blue Heron Education Association, and owner of a local and online business selling Vegibags. She embodies "Think Global; Act Local." Their mission is to “help make clear and conscious the assumptions, taboos, denials, and orthodoxies of the dominant global industrial culture, so that some people will be able to break free of the confines and limitations of that paradigm.” President Linda Travis, heroine of Timothy's book, with many aware helpers along the way, becomes a true leader of our evolution through collapse of the dominant paradigm and leadership into truly mature co-creators within the limitations and natural abundance of Planet Earth. Our guests, Timothy and Sally, in their own ways, emerge as just such heroes in real life and time.

Predicament of Planet Earth