Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post among others. Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He is the founder of a community in the jungles of Costa Rica - Brave Earth: A Center for Applied Cultural Transition. He is also Co-director of Transition Resource Circle, Council Chair for Culture Hack Labs and co-author of Post Capitalist Philanthropy: The healing of wealth in the time of crisis.

Most of all he is my hanai brother and dear friend. A person I turn to when I need to untangle my thinking about the world and my place in it. He is a guardian of the futures and a mystical anarchist, a philosopher and mythopoetic truth teller. A rare being, always becoming into a new version of himself. He is someone I am deeply grateful to be woven with in this lifetime… May this conversation move you to lean into your own becoming, so that your life becomes a prayer of purpose to the unfolding of the ages. May we all be useful to these times. 

Links:

Brave Earth

Rewording Fellowship

Transition Resource Circle

Rojava - Autonomous Community

Books:

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Ideas to Postpone the End of the World - Ailton Kranek

T.A.Z. The Temporary Autonomous Zone - Hakim Bey

Designs for the Pluriverse - Arturo Escobar

Tiokasin Ghosthorse - Various writings

Sophie Strand - Various writings

Bayo Akomalofe - Various writings

Less is More: How Degrowth will save the world - Jason Hickels

Sociology of Freedom - Abdullah Öcalan 

Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble - Stephen Jenkinson

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Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com/

Instagram: @aubrey.morgan.yee

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