I'm a long time student of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo who is dreaming about an American renaissance and looking for clues to the "American Yoga," a spirituality that is already growing out of this magnificent land. This "yoga" will be the foundation of the renaissance, in which the good life is defined by deeper and more generous values -- respect, appreciation, hope, honesty, and celebration -- not by having more things.

I dream of an America in which art, learning, children, and spiritual awareness are more important in public conversation and private action than economic growth and military prowess. I dream of American energy streaming home from our 732+ foreign military bases and posts, with a can-do attitude informed by those deeper values.

I foresee Americans realizing that economic growth based on resource destruction on a finite planet is a recipe for collapse. I dream of corporations with a new mandate formalized in amended articles of incorporation. The new mandate promotes the interests of all stakeholders -- employees, the community and the environment -- not just shareholders. This change will be required by law.

I dream of Americans of all ethnic backgrounds becoming truly native and awake to this land, a chorus of new American voices of the land. In which the salmon are welcomed back to the rivers as fellow travelers in this land. In which the voices of the forests and the otters and the eagles have a legitimate place at our councils of the wise. In which the great conversation of the ancients with the land and the rivers and the stars is renewed.