The Depths to Which We Need Each Other

Every person has two histories influencing their present actions and future choices. One history is made up of idiosyncrasies, assimilated norms, and life events โ€” the way you hold a pencil, how you dance, the people youโ€™ve loved and their influence on who youโ€™ve...

Power of Poetry

We know freedom through the emotions and actions it ignites in us: joy, exhilaration, confidence, self-expression, playfulness. Yet, we cannot truly know freedom without some sense of belonging, which also ignites these same emotions and actions. Discourses that pit...

Imagining Radical Interdependence

A defining attribute of humankind is our imaginations. They make possible thriving in almost every climate and grant us the ability to create ecospheres where none existed. If we notably differ from other species, then our uniqueness is found in the time and energy we...

Kohei Saito’s Argument for Degrowth

Although carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere began rising due to the use of fossil fuels during the Industrial Revolution (mainly coal), nearly half of all fossil fuels were utilized after 1989 when the Cold War ended. Itโ€™s staggering to think that in a...

Trickster Will Have Its Way

The Trickster has been depicted as both mythical figure and archetype โ€” what Carl Jung identified as instinctual schemas guiding behavior that serve both individual and social development.  As archetype, Trickster is a masterful, yet unpredictable,...

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