Why Breakdowns Are Sometimes Necessary

What if this is not a nervous breakdown – but a nervous break-through – a profound emotional cleansing, a dissolution of the false structures that have ruled your life, a breaking through to a more authentic state of being?

We The People

Why has it been so difficult for the United States to overcome issues of sexism, racism, and white supremacy?

America’s Gun Fetish

What is at the root of the mass shootings and culture of gun violence that plagues the United States?

The Angel’s Glow: How The Soil Healed Wounded Soldiers

How did the soil help to heal wounded soldiers in the civil war battle of Shiloh, Tennessee?

Why Doctors Ignore Trauma

Why do doctors continue to overlook the long term effects of childhood trauma on the health of adults?

To The Ones Consumed By Darkness

What must we address if ever hope to achieve lasting peace?

A Path Away From War: The Science Of Peace Systems

Can humanity end war forever? The new science of peace systems highlights the key ingredients for creating sustainable peace among societies.

Why We’re Losing The War On Drugs

How can understanding the root cause of addiction help to see the flawed strategy of the War on Drugs?

Mutiny of the Soul

When does the time come when the soul says it has had enough?

The Biases Of Western Medicine

How do the biases within Western medicine keep us from understanding the source of many chronic physical and mental illnesses?

How To Hear What Nature Is Saying

What if there was a way to actually communicate with other beings in nature and even nature herself?

The Power Of Resistance

What does it take to resist radical evil and how can this knowledge help us toward intelligent resistance?

The Prison Of The Mind

How do people get trapped in the prison of their mind?

What Is It Like To Be You?

How might this single question lead us to ending all war?

Can Beauty Save The Planet?

How does the way we talk about climate change possibly limit our response to it?

Why People Hurt People

Why do people commit random acts of violence against themselves and others?

Breaking The Cycle of Competitive Detachment

How do many of the crises we face result from the cycle of competitive detachment?

How To Understand Your Mind

How is understanding how your mind works the key to living a fulfilled life?

The Cult Of The Self

Why is worshipping celebrities so destructive to both ourselves and our world?

Why Do We Make Life So Hard?

How does the modern world make life harder on the average person?

How To Excel As A Parent

What mistake do most parents make that wind up costing their children later on in life?

Why Grasses Love Fire

What impact do grasslands have on the ecosystems of the world?

Why Humans Rule The World

What are the key aspects of human beings that enable them to rule the world?

The Fatal Design of Debt-Based Money

Where does the way that money is created lead to the many crises we face today?

Our Gut Feelings Are Not Luxuries

What are the four kinds of alienation that we experience in the modern world?

How Realities Are Made

How do human beings create realities and what might a different reality look like?

Let’s Shift From Global To Local

What effect has globalization had on the psyche of humanity and how might a return to the local be the cure?

How Wealth Changes People

What does science have to say about how wealth change people’s behavior?

The Real Problem Underlying This Moment

What is the real problem underlying the crises we are facing at the convergence of capitalism, black lives matter, and Covid-19?

The Root Of Emotional Suppression

Why do so many people learn to suppress their emotions?

How Amphibians Restore Balance To The Land

What is the crucial role that amphibians play in the ecosystems of the world?

What If We Can Transform Before We Die?

Why is our culture so afraid of the death process and what might we accomplish if we transcend that fear?

The Secrets To Changing Reality

What are the ways that each of us can change our reality despite what anyone else may do?

The Social Contract Is Broken

What is hidden story behind the rioting and looting that we saw in the wake of George Floyd’s murder?

How Not To Go Extinct

Is there a way where humanity might NOT go extinct?

How To Understand A Human Being

Is there a lens with which you might be able to understand any human behavior?

Covid-19 Exposes Our True Power

What does Covid-19 have to teach us about our own power to change the world?

Why Everyone Deserves A Basic Income

Why does every human being deserve an unconditional basic income?

What Does Post-Capitalism Look Like?

What is capitalism and how might we create a world beyond it?

The Hidden Lesson Of Covid-19

What might Covid-19 be trying to communicate to humanity, if it could speak?

Life’s Hidden Energy

What is the hidden energy that encompasses every aspect of life?

The Goal Of Life Is Not To Survive It

Why does society so often focus on survival? Is the goal of life simply to survive it?

You Are Alive For A Reason

Do you ever feel like you are alive right now for a reason?

How Our Society Creates Depression

Why does it seem so many people living in modern society are depressed?

The Illusion Of Insignificance

How does every organism on the planet that has ever lived – no matter how small – make a difference?

What Kids Need Most

What is the one thing that kids need most from their parents?

How Altruism Defeats Psychopathy

How can we the people tell ourselves a new story that can light the path to a better world?

The Birth Of An Empathic Civilization

How has empathy grown over the course of human history and can it evolve to encompass every living being?

The Most Brilliant Heist In History

How did the government convert our food production from millions of small farmers to a few large corporations?

How Beavers Engineer The Land

How do beavers earn their title as “ecosystem engineers?”

Why Materialism Doesn’t Lead To Happiness

Why doesn’t materialism not jive with our human nature?

The Rules Of The Game Must Change

How should the rules of the game of capitalism change?

You Are Never Too Small To Make A Difference

Why are our leaders not doing anything about climate change?

How Consumerism Tricks Our Biology

How does consumer culture manipulate the chemicals in our brain to lead us to unhappy lives?

Why Self-Trust Threatens Authority

Why do authorities not want you to trust yourself?

What We Can Learn From Nature

What can we learn about the sustainable way Nature has been doing things for millions of years?

This Is Not A Sane Way To Live

What is wrong with the way we are living and how can we fix it?

The Need To Be Right

Where does our “need to be right” come from and how is it holding us back?

The End Of Kings

How did the old kings morph into the new kings?

What Do Animals Think And Feel?

Have you ever wondered what animals think and feel?

There Is More Than One Kind Of Intelligence

Why do some kids not seem to do well in school?

The Shift To Biosphere Consciousness

How is consciousness shifting in the younger generations?

The Real Story Of Climate Change

What does the story of climate change look like when you go back millions of years?

How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence

What is cultural violence and how does advertising create it?

The Illusion Of Progress

Despite all our “progress”, why do so many of still feel a lack of something?

The Crisis Of Loneliness

Why are so many people in the modern world so lonely?

The Choice Between Fear And Love

What is the fundamental choice each of us makes every moment?

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us

The real question with addiction is not “Why the addiction?” but “Why the pain?”

How Trees Talk

What are mother trees and how do they communicate and share resources with each other?

How Economic Growth Has Become Anti-Life

What is the very root cause of deforestation and why can it not be stopped?

How To Create An Abundant Economy

How can we create an economy based on abundance rather than scarcity?

How Capitalism Exploits Us

How does capitalism exploit us and what can be done about it?

You Can’t Have Infinite Growth On A Finite Planet

Why is it so difficult for most people to grasp the idea that you can’t have infinite growth on a finite planet?

How To Make Life Wonderful

Why do people continue playing the game of “Who’s Right” when we all know that playing the game of “Making Life Wonderful” is what we really want?

How To Have A Relationship With A Wild Animal

What does it take to have a real relationship with a wild animal?

How Devils Heal Forests

How might the return of Tasmanian devils help to heal the Australian forests?

The Force That Drives Our Civilization

How do the stories we believe impact our behavior, the way we treat one another and our attitudes about our relationship to the planet?

How Wolves Change Rivers

What happened in the Yellowstone National Park when wolves were reintroduced in 1995?

How Whales Change Climate

How do whales help to mitigate climate change?

Animist Psychology