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What Does the Great Awakening Look Like In Human Relationships? A…
Kindred's nonprofit partner, Local Futures, has launched The Bristol Conversations – a podcast and video series featuring Helena Norberg Hodge in deep, soulful…
The Ethics of Evil
Thomas Aquinas defined sin as the violation of human wellbeing. Erich Fromm (1973) calls such behavior irrational:
“I propose to call rational any thought,…
Why Is Authoritarianism So Easy?
It wasn’t hard to become a Nazi. From my short lifetime of experience, I pulled together unresolved bitterness, feelings of unjust treatment and social slights,…
Who/What is “Indigenous”?
People sometimes ask or wonder about how to be respectful of Native Peoples while desiring to adopt Indigenous ways. I find it helpful to approach the term…
From Ego-Wilding to Eco-Wilding and Re-Wilding
Although in the USA today, many residents are ego-wilding (see prior post), this is not humanity’s heritage. Eco-wilding is our heritage.
Eco-wilding deeply…
Wilding: Eco or Ego?
The term, wilding, emerged as a description of random youth violence. A sign of failed socialization. But in recent decades, this kind of wilding has been…
Can We Create A Village In A Competitive Culture? Reimagining and…
“We are stuck in the wrong story.” — Riane Eisler
“The Evolved Nest helps us remember what being human really means.” — Darcia Narvaez
(from the recorded…
How the Corporate Consumption Complex Confuses Us by Promoting Pleasure…
Corporations sell us hedonic pleasures (tobacco, alcohol, processed “food”) and behavior triggers (guns, cars, energy) by using advanced science about how to…
A Tribute to James Prescott, PhD
Watch the video tribute below.
From Darcia Narvaez, PhD
Dr. James Prescott is one of my founding mentors for the work I do today. His papers were an…
What Is The Mother Of Medicine? A Poetic Response
Editor’s Note: This post is a part of the forthcoming Special Issue of Kindred Magazinecelebrating the Mother of Medicine for Mother’s Day 2025. Kindred…