HeyJaredMichel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization
My personal Substack for sharing articles and structured curation on the theme of the emergence of a commons-centric civilization.
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Curated Article: How do we change human consciousness ? (opens the original)
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The following article is a preparation for a more flowing and personal article I will write on this topic. The material you will find here is mostly from people who have studied human consciousness ‘phenomenologically’, as it appears to alert observers, using social or human sciences, not necessarily the more current neurology or neurosciences. However, some of the conclusions at the end of this article are certainly ‘neurologically’ founded as well.The article does not look at change as ‘manipu
Towards a ‘Society Protocol’: From the very first Open Commons Day in Belgium, to the network of phygital Ecovillages in the Ukraine (opens the original)
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This is neither a ‘classsic’ thought exercise nor a bibliographic guide, nor a guest article, one of the three types of articles you may have read here so far. Instead, this will be a potpourri of important news from the commons movement.The first announcement concerns the very first ever Open Commons Day, which will take place in Flanders and Brussels in Belgium, as a way to open the doors to about 40 commons-related civic projects, both rural and urban. Since it is the first time such an event
How should Bioregionalism adapt to ‘China outside China’ ? (opens the original)
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The ‘Networked Rooted Society’: Can we be rooted both locally and trans-locally ? (opens the original)
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Context: My Summer 2026 Lecture Tour in EuropeDear friends,I have been on a rare and intensive lecture tour, something I have not done since 2019, when Covid broke out. This trip is has brought meMichel’s Substack: Fourth Generation Civilization is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input
Understanding the importance of the P4P moment in the long evolution of the commons. (opens the original)
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First, in the Axial Age, we tried religion; then in the industrial age, we tried ideology, essentially socialism. But what now? Well, you know my (our?) answer here at the Crypto Commons Gathering, and later, at the Valley of the Commons: we construct the future, right here, right now, and instantiate the peer relations we wish for, right here, right now, person to person, community to community, the human with nature, and the human with the Divine Spirit (the latter only if you are so inclined)
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