Even though we ultimately desire to be happy, most of us find ourselves taking in sorrow, pain and tragedy through everything we see, hear and feel both in our own experience and through the media. It’s like we are breathing in suffering and this suffering, both our own and that…

Folktales, fairytales, and myths are the way our ancestors tried to tell truth and actually have the earth speaking through them. Shaw says that they are more than just human intelligence at play. Here he takes us on a deep dive into the importance of inviting story into our lives,…

We live in a world of overwhelming uncertainties that threaten to erode our innate ability to maintain inner peace, which is essential for life to flourish. This inner peace, as expressed by love, exists as goodness itself and is the strongest alternative to helplessness, resentment, hate, insanity, bitterness, and crazy…

The average American sees the word karma as shorthand for a system of cosmic justice in which everything we do comes back to us in some form of consequence. The usual adages are: “What goes around comes around,” or “We reap what we sow.” Karma is, by and large, incompletely…

For more than 40 years, Sam Daley-Harris has worked to help people find ways to “make democracy viable”. He advocates deep listening and engaging face-to-face with members of Congress. It’s about working beyond just donating money, signing petitions, or writing letters to the editor. It’s about deep engagement and participating…

Free Listening Through October 7, 2025: Cousineau, a clinical psychologist at Harvard University, discusses the roots and consequences of perfectionism, emphasizing its connection to a need for belonging and acceptance. She explains how perfectionism leads to burnout, stress, and anxiety. She introduces the concept of “inner algorithms” as coping patterns…

Are we living in and collectively participating in a planetary nervous system? Does the Earth itself have a reflective capacity and are we all creative participants in guiding Earth’s destiny? Here we focus on the noosphere. The noosphere (from Greek nous, meaning “mind” or “intellect”) is a concept describing the…

In this era of digital polarization and a lack of shared reality and political consensus, we’re navigating massive issues. How might we cope with the many different spheres of sense-making and meaning? Alderman highlights the rapid expansion of information exposure over the past 50 years, leading to an “algorithmic undertow”…

Sun’s experience of why people become polarized, go to war, cannot have any room or compassion for some other point of view, is because they are stuck in an old style of either/or thinking. She sees the current global challenges as indicators of an evolutionary leap in consciousness. She urges…

American society has become increasingly divided, with people sorting themselves into like-minded groups, othering those who disagree, and siloing themselves from opposing viewpoints. The good news is that people are more complex than the labels we assign them. Here we explore tools for fearless curiosity leading to empathetic conversations across…