[ad_1] May 25, 2021– “The four horsemen of my Apocalypse are called Efficiency, Convenience, Profitability and Security, and in their names crimes against poetry, pleasure, sociability and the very breadth of the world are committed, daily, every hour, constantly. These technophiles, advertisers and speculators employ marauding horsemen to assault the nameless pleasures and meanings that…

[ad_1] May 24, 2021– “Although we have instructions and a map buried in our hearts when we enter this world,” has written the extraordinary Joy Harjo, “nothing prepares us for the abrupt change to the realm of breath.” She is a saxophonist and performer, visual artist, member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, and the 23rd…

[ad_1] May 23, 2021– “Witnessing a growing wasteland, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee seeks the threshold that could lead us back to the place where the earth sings, to a deep ecology of consciousness that returns our consciousness to a fully animated world.” (121 reads) Read full story To take actionFor more inspiration, see “Finding Your Balance in…

[ad_1] May 22, 2021– Yes, scientists have discovered that plants can communicate with each other. This animated short, commissioned by the BBC World Service, explores what has been dubbed “The Wood Wide Web” – the intricate web of fungi that connects plants in entire forests. Says ecologist Suzanne Simard: “Trees are ‘social creatures’ that communicate…

[ad_1] May 21, 2021– “To understand anything – another person’s experience of reality, another fundamental law of physics – is to restructure our existing knowledge, changing and expanding our previous frames of reference to accommodate a new consciousness. And yet we have a habit of confuse our knowledge, which is always limited and incomplete: a…

[ad_1] May 20, 2021– Every sunrise, millions of Tamil women create intricate, geometric, ritual art designs called ‘kolams’, on the doorsteps of their homes, as a tribute to Mother Earth and an offering to Goddess Lakshmi. A Tamil word meaning beauty, form, play, costume, or ritual design: a kolam is based on the Hindu belief…

[ad_1] May 19, 2021– Aristotle believed that courage was the most important quality in a man. “Courage is the first of the human virtues because it makes all the others possible,” he wrote. Today, it is one of the most neglected areas of positive psychology, but recent research has begun to move towards understanding what…

[ad_1] May 18, 2021– The Peace of Wild Things is a beautiful animated film of a poem written and read by Wendell Berry as part of the On Being Project’s Poetry Films series, featuring animated interpretations of beloved poems. This poem is a warm invitation to go back to our first memories of peace and…

[ad_1] May 17, 2021– David Hoffman’s film career dates back more than 58 years. “I picked up a camera in 1964 and found that behind the camera, I could ask questions and find out things that I didn’t know, or that scared me … When I was 25 years old, I had the opportunity to…

[ad_1] May 16, 2021– “A genealogical search can give many things and travel many paths, but deep down, it is a story that is waiting to be told and a person who tells it.” Ten years ago, artist Pat Benincasa was given a unique mission, one that came in the form of a charred book…