Essential Reading
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William James offers a way to evaluate the fruitfulness of ideas by tethering them to the common ground of lived experience.
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A former barefoot guru explores the difficulty in articulating the experience of a spiritual emergency amid societal upheavals.
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Children’s films tend to emphasize the role of destiny or chance, but existential themes can be found in a few that highlight the importance of…
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Fears halted research on psychotropic compounds in the 60s. The Second Psychedelic Renaissance is now validating their psychological benefits.
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We’re not only facing a crisis of loneliness but we’re atomized. Our systems seem designed to further undermine social fabric and place.
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Eating crab is a fitting tradition for an Appalachian community dealing with the intergenerational trauma connected to the opioid crisis.
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The key to fixing our cities, to creating Strong Towns, is to treat them like complex, emergent systems capable of iterative change.
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To address rising atomization and alienation, we must account for radical inadequacy and experiment with more totalizing communities.