Author of Medicine Wheel for the Planet (2024), the agroecologist Dr Jennifer Grenz, explores this question.
Read moreLoneliness and Connection
Our teacher Thich Nhat Hanh talks about loneliness being a problem of our time and that technology only gives us the illusion of being connected with others. Loneliness can be ended by coming home to ourselves, finding self acceptance as we are, before establishing connection with others.
This video is part of an article "Handling our Strong Emotions", you may read the full article at https://plumvillage.org/articles/hand...
The Numinous and Hope
Hope is an indispensable component for living a life of meaning, value, and well-being. Hope enables us to manage stressors, threats, failures, and personal doubts while helping us to stay focused on our goals and strivings.
Hope is particularly relevant to the Numinous dimension of meaning.
The value of the Numinous for healthcare providers and its role in managing patients is overviewed.
Read moreNuminous Experience and Consciousness
It’s important on a personal and collective level.
Read moreCan Psychedelics Heal?
In this podcast, hear from the world’s leading clinical psychedelic researchers on the latest science for how psychedelics can be effective therapies for difficult-to-treat physical conditions like fibromyalgia, chronic-Lyme disease and phantom-limb pain.
Read moreAwe and Psychedelics
What makes the psychedelic experience so healing? It could be “awe”.
Read moreIs the Universe Conscious?
Science writer Annaka Harris, author of Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind (2019) offers an interesting theory of consciousness, that the universe itself is conscious and its consciousness is, perhaps, the only reality.
Read moreConsciousness Connects Us
Theory suggests that consciousness is a quantum process, connecting us all to the entire universe.
Read moreIncubation and Creativity
The unconscious process that leads to creativity: how ‘incubation’ works.
The creativity process has been divided into four phases – including one where you need to let your unconscious do the work.
Read moreDeep Into the Unconscious
We are used to skimming the surface of our emotions, distracting ourselves with endless doing. To discover what we really need, we must move beyond the shallows and dive deep into the unconscious.
Read moreOur Connection to Nature
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds.
Professor Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies.
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