Published on Reality Sandwich in February 2013, this account covers Bill McKibben’s Cooper Union talk on 350.org’s university divestment campaign, modeled on 1980s anti-apartheid divestment. Pinchbeck accepts McKibben’s climate data but argues that the hunkering-down vision of Eaarth cannot compete with Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity, and calls for regenerative design and a new planetary culture.
Written for Reality Sandwich as the Mayan Long Count ended in December 2012, the essay concedes that predictions by Graham Hancock, Jose Arguelles, Terence McKenna and David Wilcock did not materialize, while maintaining the date marks a hinge in planetary consciousness. Pinchbeck cites climate tipping-point research from Fred Pearce and Mark Lynas and quotes Donella Meadows on nonmaterial needs.
Notes from a TEDx talk delivered at the La Calaca Festival in San Miguel de Allende in November 2012, published on Reality Sandwich. Opening with Hurricane Sandy flooding his New York block, Pinchbeck frames the ecological crisis as a species-wide initiation, drawing on Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman’s Spontaneous Evolution, James Lovelock, and Bernard Lietaer’s currency proposals.
A feature written for Origin magazine in June 2012 describing why Pinchbeck founded Evolver Editions with North Atlantic Books, and surveying its first titles. He traces the imprint back to the volume of reader mail his own books generated and the absence of any forum where those readers could speak.
Appearing on Reality Sandwich in May 2012, this rereading of Dieter Duhm’s Eros Unredeemed argues that no political revolution will succeed without a prior revolution in love and sexuality. Pinchbeck connects Duhm’s case against exclusive fidelity to Gerald Heard’s Pain, Sex, and Time, and notes his visit to Tamera, the community Duhm founded in Portugal.
An interview from Dazed & Confused, republished on Reality Sandwich in May 2012, with the historian Richard Dolan, author of the two-volume UFOs and the National Security State and of A.D. After Disclosure. Dolan describes how a doctoral dissertation turned into a career documenting official secrecy.
A March 2012 Reality Sandwich response to a reader, Henry Baum, who charged that Pinchbeck’s ideas lacked practical application. In answer he sets out a program: redesigning corporations away from shareholder-value maximization, replacing debt-based money with Bernard Lietaer’s Terra and Charles Eisenstein’s commons-linked currency, and applying Buckminster Fuller’s design science and William McDonough’s Cradle to Cradle to industry.
Reporting on the October 2011 global day of action in more than 600 cities for Reality Sandwich, Pinchbeck defends Occupy Wall Street against the charge that it lacks specific demands, arguing that no reform of the present system is possible. He urges the consciousness movement to join the encampments and links the moment to Mayan and Hopi prophecy.
Published in RSF Quarterly in summer 2011, the essay argues that capitalism is a transitional system and that ecological crisis amounts to an initiatory crisis for the species. Pinchbeck draws on Lewis Mumford, Rudolf Steiner, Bernard Lietaer’s Terra currency and William McDonough’s Cradle to Cradle, and cites Dean Radin and Princeton’s Global Consciousness Project on psychic phenomena.
A long interview for Reality Sandwich from June 2011 with William Etundi, Jr., the New York event producer behind The Danger, on his upbringing between a Methodist minister mother and a Ghanaian father, the economics of underground nightlife, and what he took from his first ayahuasca ceremony.