I walk this ancient road every morning without shoes, to feel the ground directly in contact with my body. Our family arrived in the town of Barichara in Colombia’s northern Andes Mountains with the intention of learning how to live a regenerative life while raising our three-year-old daughter. We know that the Earth is in overshoot-and-collapse. […]
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Enspiral Story Dojo #03 — “The Saviour” and other lies we tell children Story by Rupert Snook Here comes the hero… Yeah, sure Imagine this. A friend is having a hard time, and you want to support them. You decide to cook them a nice dinner. You spend a bit of time thinking about the healthiest ingredients to put in.
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An excerpt from a chapter that never was. Continue reading on Medium »
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I would like to share a reflection on this very thoughtful article by my friend Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed summarizing the science of collapse as it relates to the current globalized civilization. For starters, let me say that I find resonance with nearly all that he says and that I encourage others to read it carefully
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Image Credit: Nigel Hawtin and the BBC When studying the cultural evolution of societies, there is an interesting pattern that arises — that doesn’t get nearly the attention that it deserves. Notice how all historical civilizations have collapsed. There is no evidence that any have proven to be sustainable. What does this tell us about our planetary predicament?
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For those of you interested in transformative exercise, psychotechnologies, ecologies of practice, and so on, here’s a short thread on askēsis, a word I think you’ll find useful. Askēsis is exercise or training aimed at a transformation or overcoming of the self by the self — examples include contemplative prayer, meditation, fasting, examinations of conscience, dialectics, discursive reasoning,
An invitation to psychologically smart, action-focussed politics By John Bunzl and Nick Duffell At a time when the human propensity for ostrich-like behaviour is becoming perilous, we owe a massive debt to the Extinction Rebellion movement (XR) for putting climate change onto the headlines. This raising of consciousness has been essential, allowing the notion of ‘climate
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left to right: Charlie Taylor, Mai Hua, David Fuller, Jerry Hyde For this international Men’s Day, I was asked to take part in a discussion about my friend Jerry Hyde’s new film ‘Meetings With Remarkable Men’. Jerry is a rock star psychologist who’s dedicated his life to running men’s groups, where men come together, every two
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left to right: Charlie Taylor, Mai Hua, David Fuller, Jerry Hyde For this international Men’s Day, I was asked to take part in a discussion about my friend Jerry Hyde’s new film ‘Meetings With Remarkable Men’. Jerry is a rock star psychologist who’s dedicated his life to running men’s groups, where men come together, every two
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