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37. The logic of sameness

February 17, 2023 Leave a Comment

Transcript There’s a poison seeping through America’s veins. It’s a poison that Germany knew in the 1930s and that other countries are struggling with now as well. It’s the poison of authoritarianism. Florida has passed laws to limit teaching about certain topics in schools—racism, African American history, gender identity, sexual orientation. The laws are worded…  Read More…

Tagged With: authoritarianism, authority, conformity, democracy, diversity, education, evolution, free speech, hierarchy, intolerance, logic of authoritarianism, multiculturalism, obedience, persecution, Roman Empire, Roman piety

 

33. Being autistic

May 15, 2022

Transcript So about a year ago I learned something new about myself. I began to suspect that I’m autistic. So I approached a psychologist, and we had some meetings, and I took some tests. And when the meetings were done and the scores came back, the answer was yes. I’m autistic. Now as you can…  Read More…

Tagged With: autism, autism acceptance, autistic adults, autistic seniors, autistic spectrum, connecting with nature, evolution, feeling different, hyperempathy, loners, meditation, meltdowns, nature spirituality, shavasana, slime mold, visionaries, yoga

 

20. Finding sweetness in bitterness

January 8, 2021

Transcript Many years ago a Turkish Sufi teacher named Baba gave me a word of advice. I was at a turning point in my life, facing a tough choice, one that was bound to feel bitter no matter what. Baba looked at me with shining eyes and said, “In life, there is always sweetness and…  Read More…

Tagged With: Angela Davis, Bandy X. Lee, Black Lives Matter, consolation in nature, divine discontent, evolution, fossil fuel divestment, good trouble, healing power of nature, nature's healing power, pandemic, prison abolition, public mental health, tree science, winter

 

7. The freedom of the wind

July 17, 2020

Transcript So, last week I talked about opening the heart so we can hear a larger wisdom instead of just following the mind’s ideas about how things should be. But why is being open so important? The simplest answer is, Because that’s the way nature is. But what in the world does this mean? I…  Read More…

Tagged With: becoming, creativity, evolution, freedom, humility, love, opening the heart, spirit, story of nature, surrender, unpredictability, way of the heart

 

The Law is in the ground

November 28, 2016

Of the many voices I included in Kissed by a Fox, one has stayed with me longer than just about any other. That voice belongs to Doug Campbell, an Aboriginal man from Australia who worked with the anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose. Campbell said in Rose’s Dingo Makes Us Human, You see that hill over there?…  Read More…

Tagged With: Aboriginal philosophy, breathing, capitalism, choice, competition, cooperation, Darwin, Deborah Bird Rose, Earth law, ecocide, ecocommunity, ecological economics, evolution, law, laws of nature, natural law, reciprocity, rights of nature

 

Snuggle for survival

July 25, 2016

The phrase leaped out at me—from the pages of Scientific American, no less. Martin Nowak, a mathematician, biologist, and director of a program in evolutionary theory at Harvard, was arguing that cooperation, not just competition, advances evolution. In Nowak’s words: Life is therefore not just a struggle for survival—it is also, one might say, a…  Read More…

Tagged With: attitudes toward animals, attitudes toward nature, capitalism, competition, cooperation, Darwin, economics, enclosure of the commons, evolution, Hobbes, human nature, Malthus, natural selection, struggle for existence

 

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