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We Must Reclaim Solarpunk from Authoritarian Regimes

Without an aesthetic program, it is impossible to truly recreate today’s society in desired directions. We need more than just ideas of the things we wish to avoid (ecological disaster, pandemics, famine, wars, existential risks from technology…). We need more than a moral mission (e.g. “remedy suffering” or “save the animals” as discussed in one of my previous […]

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Combining Neuroscience and Mindfulness to Build Greater Mental Toughness – An Interview With Mark Divine

What follows is a transcript for the podcast Mental Toughness – Mark Divine – Mindset. Topics within the interview include: The role that stillness, time spent in nature, and awe play in building mental toughness How to properly meditate and embrace sacred silence Why we need dedicated training in order to break negative brain patterns

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Why The Alternative in Denmark Failed

In my book The Listening Society, I mention the Danish political party The Alternative (in Danish, “Alternativet”). Although the party never was thoroughly metamodern, it did contain many metamodern elements and showed some very promising signs of becoming a new kind of party. Unfortunately, things didn’t go very well. The Alternative was founded in 2013 by former Danish

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Dropping Silk Stockings Created an Oral Health Revolution (The Pattern of Disruption, Part 7)

For most of human history, it was not routine for people to brush their teeth. But by the 1960s, majorities of most Western countries had a daily oral hygiene routine. Because oral hygiene is so central to wider health, the mainstreaming of dental care had a huge impact on the global disease burden, reducing the

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Political Polarization Is Good?!

If you’re a visionary political thinker and agent, your eye may have been caught by one of the following theorists/activists of the future of democracy over the last decade or so: Integrative Governance(by Margaret Stout & Jeannine M. Love) Holistic Democracy(by Jan Inglis) Musical Democracy(by Nancy S. Love) Deep Democracy(by Arny Mindell) Liquid Democracy Sociocracy

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How Integral Psychology Helps us Meet the Global Meta-Crisis – An Interview With Roger Walsh, M.D. Ph.D. DHL

What follows is a transcript for the podcast Homegrown Humans – Roger Walsh, M.D. Ph.D. DHL. – Integral Psychology – Hosted by Jamie Wheal. Topics within the interview include the following:  Exploring somatic, emotional, mental, and spiritual intelligence How spiritual practices help us maintain radical hope The four enemies of knowledge Three constructive actions to

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