Something is emerging. After death comes a rebirth: that is the promise of impermanence. In the mist of darkness a new world is not only possible, she is on her way. The Second Renaissance Magazine's first issue on Impermanence shows the voice of a community making sense of the world through art, poetry, essays and personal stories.

A call to arms for artists to midwife a new cultural movement. This manifesto invites a shift from art as commodity to art as soul-work, uniting the artistic, political, and spiritual in service of a rebirth: a Second Renaissance.