Reflections from spending time with Pun Pun Ecovillage & Hin Lat Nai village a case study for regenerative practises & traditional indigenous knowledge in Thailand lightforest.world/what-if-we…

youtube.com/watch?v=HAeC199R… @devlewis18 shares a Light Forest, cosmo-local style community-led emergence, where local networks foster healing and emergence to replace failing systems, the seeds for a true climate change response.

A report on a Chiang Mai residency , by @devlewis18 et al. : * The Light Forest Emerging Earth Residency lightforestworld.substack.co… "brought together 12 changemakers for a 3-day residency and workshop for inner transformation, creative emergence, and systems co-design for Planetary Health. Planetary health is an emerging field at the nexus of health and ecology, examining relationships between self, community, and planet. The practice focuses on systems change to regenerate communities and ecosystems worldwide."

via @devlewis18 "We invite you to join us at TEDx Chiang Mai 2025 in November where we will be curating a day-long program in the Emerging Earth Room. digicnx.network/tedx-chiang-… You can can expect a mix of talks, workshops, and immersive experiences. 📷 Listen to the stories that rice tells us with Karen youth elders 📷 Get hands-on with biomimicry—bridging science and the sacred 📷 imagine regenerative futures and community building 📷 Join the eco-nomad movement w/ @Jell Lunprom 📷 Immerse in the soundscapes of biodiversity w/@ADD When & Where: 📷 November 15 📷 Ground floor, TEDx Chiang Mai 📷 Conference ticket required in the morning 📷 FREE & open to public after 1:30 PM"

Announcing the Emerging Earth Residency⁨🌏🌱 🗓️October 6-9 2025 📍Mae Tang Chiang Mai A 4-day retreat and workshop for inner transformation, creative emergence, and systems co-design for Planetary Health. This residency is open to researchers, artists, healers, environmentalists, journalists, activists—anyone with a demonstrated curiosity in climate, health, spirituality, and policy, and an openness to bring both heart and mind into exploring planetary health. This residency is organized by Light Forest & cosmolocal Chiang Mai. Application now open! Read more about the program & facilitators open.substack.com/pub/lightf… #planetaryhealth #residency #web3 #ecovillage #systemschange #climatechange #peace ⁩

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* Emerging Earth Residency (October 2025) lightforestworld.substack.co… "A retreat and workshop for inner transformation, creative emergence, and systems co-design for Planetary Health in Chiang Mai / October 6-9 2025. Application now open."

Another deep dive podcast conversation from @devlewis18 : "In this episode, we journey deep into the Light Forest with William Wait, a musician, psychologist, and psychedelic elder, who shares many stories, insight, and techniques from his long life that started in California in 1941, and living in Thailand for 33 years." lightforestworld.substack.co…

watch this space for a special announcement for a planetary health gathering soon...

#Health is not just about individuals but about relationships: communities, ecosystems, and the planet itself. I joined the @lightforest0 #podcast with the beautiful Dev Lewis to explore how we weave these relationships. This requires care that transcends divisions in our global capitalist world. 'I' can't be healthy if 'you' are sick. 'We' can't be safe until 'they' are also. No one can be truly well on a sick planet, or when extraction, violence and genocide are normalised. Old wisdom recognises interconnectedness as central to wellbeing. First Nation Australian lore connects people and place. Ubuntu philosophy: 'I am because we are.' Disconnected from this knowledge, globalised healthcare atomises and treats illness rather than connecting to create health. We're artificially separated from the micro, meso, and macro systems that actually influence health - from our microbiomes to our spirituality to our air and waterways. This blinkered approach can cause more harm and disempower those it intends to help. True healing requires revolutionary care across all levels - from personal liberation to land back to global justice. Our wellbeing is bound together across species, borders, and generations. lightforestworld.substack.co… #planetaryhealth #healthcare #globalhealth #care #CommunityResilience #PlaceBasedHealing #IntegratedWellness #wellbeing

digicnx.network/summary-medi… Catchup with our conversation exploring the new ontologies and ways of knowing that will drive a cosmo-local transition @mbauwens

* Can we move from 'Peace through Strength', towards 'Strength through Peace' ? lightforestworld.substack.co… @devlewis18 believes we can: "If we hold the assumption that the old system has run its course and we are amidst a transition to a new system. As Michel does. Macrohistorians such as Spengler and Sorokin do. This is the Light Forest view too. Then we see the present situation in a fresh light. We are in chaos right now because our leaders and the mainstream is operating on the old myths and logic, as a new field is emerging. Hobbes and the many generations of leaders after him may have been seasonal but our current leaders and politics are post-seasonal. I think we are in the liminal space between a new season coming in, but with each day we are getting closer. We are in the cracks. I dont claim to know how it will play out in the coming weeks, months, and years. But this time feels different. The US is dealing with core identity crises within and the collective Nato-West is no longer as important economically. The BRICS civilisation states like India may offer alternative like Sanathan Dharma in rhetoric, but their actions are devoid of Dharma. The space is open and inviting us in. For us in the Light Forest we want to live with unconditional love. This means loving all parts of ourselves, light and dark. Our history is undeniably littered with violence and war that goes back thousands of years. But we do not need to be trapped by the past. What will be the new myths that might take root that show us a different path to peace? That ones that can hold both the dark and light, and remind us of our interconnected nature and allow us to hold ourselves with more compassion and love."

via @devlewis18 * Podcast: Authentic Public Policy (with Ora-orn Poocharoen) lightforestworld.substack.co… "What if policymaking wasn’t just about data, efficiency, and institutional logic—but also about presence, inner clarity, and connection with nature?"

Reflections on the bardo, the state between two lives in the Tibetan buddhist tradition, by @devlewis18 lightforestworld.substack.co…

Please share this with anyone suffering under the illusion of an "Ownership Economy" poetryarchive.org/poem/momen… ❤️

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