neurobiology and wisdom

Aedín is a small black six-year-old quarter horse mare who was saved from the kill pens last year. When she arrived three months ago to live at our ranch she…

Editor's Note: So you did not get to attend the Sustainable Wisdom Conference at Notre Dame in 2016 and experience the mind-expanding and soul-nourishing…

Editor's Note: It was Joseph Chilton Pearce's seminal work that helped lay the foundation of the Conscious Parenting Movement in the United States and around…

Species-atypical child raising has become normal---to the detriment of the world In a newly published book, I wrote a chapter called…

In the Borderland of Consciousness Is the human collective psyche shifting in these perilous times? As noted in the prior related post, Jerome…

On the brink of extinction, can we transform the western ego? I’ve been reading Jerome Bernstein’s landmark work, Living in the Borderland: The…

What can Western psychotherapy learn from aboriginal practices? Rupert Ross, retired Canadian Crown attorney who worked with hundreds of first-nation…

Some people might say I act shamelessly at times, speaking my mind bluntly, as older women are wont to do. But it is quite a shift from my younger years,…

WHERE DOES THE MALE SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT COME FROM? We live in a culture that has promoted male supremacy from the start—note that under the Constitution…

The player steps up to home base. While at the plate, he or she is perfectly safe. From this position of safety they swing the bat and hopefully hit the ball.…