Blog by Valerie
When we grow up feeling like no one’s in our corner, that life is us against the world and we can’t trust anyone, many of us go …
Category Archives: Values
Facts in Right Relationship
Blog by Lukas
Across the globe an increasingly dominant worldview sees reality as ultimately physical. There are various expressions of this worldview in Western philosophy, including: logical positivism, empiricism…
Toilet paper wars (from the Western worldview)
Blog by Lukas
The odds of any one individual getting the Corona virus are so far quite low, and the probability of severe symptoms or death even lower. Making individual …
Our Primal Nature
Blog by Valerie
Right now it’s easy to feel survival fears, to observe deeply ingrained panic behaviours and to hear people talk about ‘these strange times.’ I understand the sentiment, …
Alienation & Judgment
Blog by Valerie
I was perhaps one of Earth’s most alienated of beings, and by that I mean that I did not sense belonging here. My cultural context was such …
Reciprocity & the Resentment-Denial Dance
Blog by Valerie
This week I am moving through some grief. I had known that a friendship would end had been observing it fade away for a while, and I …
Outliers
Most of us are familiar with outliers from mathematics, as illustrated by this image:
I have always felt like an outlier. Outliers can be inspiring leaders, and can also …
On Climate Change
Blog by Lukas
Dear Greta,
I admire your fire and passion, and your courage to take on so much of the world’s attention. Whether this attention be loving, ambivalent, …
Earth Ethos child development
Blog by Valerie
Some studies of newborns suggest that humans’ most fundamental need is to be part of a culture, to engage with their social environment and try to make …
The power of denial
Denial literally means “saying no” to something, but we tend to think of it in a negative way. We say things like, “He’s in denial” when someone’s not accepting a …