Folklaw gathers the wisdom of communities across time and place, and translates it into living patterns that can be practiced today.
Each essay can be adapted into a local resolution, offering councils, neighborhoods, and community groups a means to bring ethical reflection and ecological sanity back into the legal process itself.
Each pattern begins with a clear moral premise and flows toward practical legislation. Daoist in tone, it recognizes that true law arises not from control but from balance. A law understood and trusted is more powerful than one merely obeyed.
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A Crisis of Perception
We stand today not at the edge of one crisis, but many: ecological unraveling, spiritual drought, political exhaustion, rampant inequality. These are not separate events or isolated catastrophes converging by […]
Origin Story
Simple codes that protect the well-being of people, cultures, and life on earth, might look something like these proposed folklaws. In 2010, while biking, I suffered a traumatic brain injury […]
Systems Thinking & Recursion
In the early 20th century, physicists found a cosmos that refused to behave. Einstein unified space and time, then equated mass to energy. Electrons were found to exist simultaneously as […]
Cultivating Authentic Authority
The traditional meaning of “authority” is not power over others, but recognized knowledge and competency. Throughout history, communites have chosen their leaders based on their demonstrated wisdom and proven ability […]