John Legate taught Philosophy for over thirty years. His Master’s thesis was on Zen and Creativity.

He studied with three Zen Masters and one Taoist Master who taught him Tai Chi. For over thirty five years he has given workshops and talks on Zen and Tai Chi in Canada, the US and Mexico.

In this website, is concerned with examining some pressing questions:

Why we are experiencing climate disruption and its dire consequences?

Why has the ecosystem has become so imbalanced that all life planet may be threatened in only a few generations from now?

Also, what can be done individually in terms of a radical breakthrough which would change the way we look at the world, the way that we act

in the natural world and interact towards each other?

There is a prevailing hierarchical worldview through which many of us understand the world and how it is structured. In most cases, it can influence our actions and interactions with everything around us. This hierarchical worldview with its growing inequality has resulted in a power shift that makes most of us to feel powerless to do much about it. Our oligarchic democracies are continually shifting the balance of power away from the democratic power of the people in favour of the wealthiest group, the obscenely super rich. This might make it it impossible develop and activate any successful solutions.

We can start to make some fundamental changes by moving away from a hierarchical worldview to an ecological worldview. Individually we can, each of us, develop an enlightened ecological consciousness. How would we do that? What are the starting points?

John Legate taught Philosophy for over thirty years. His Master thesis was entitled,., Zen and Creativity. In his thirties, he studied with three Zen Masters and one Taoist Master, who taught him Tai Chi.For over thirty five years, he has given talks and workshops on Zen and Tai Chi in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.