Norie Huddle
Norie Huddle has written seven published books (three bestsellers) on environmental issues and on transforming humanity. Growing up in the woods of northern Virginia, Norie's background is eclectic and international. She was an exchange student in Italy, a Russian language graduate of Brown University, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, and spent four years in Japan working with the…
New Approaches to Healing Collective Conflict and Trauma: Our Responsibility as Global Citizens*
Thomas Hübl: William, in all your work in conflict areas, what do you see as the symptoms of trauma? And do you see that there’s a kind of recycling of trauma as a part of the conflict you work with?
William Ury: Thomas, it’s a pleasure to be speaking with you. I was trained originally as an anthropologist and was always keen to study human beings and how we related. The passionate question…
Three Poems
Something about a Goat | A Divination of Sorts – Portland, Maine | The Minor Poet Writes One More New York Poem
Among the Nightingales in Berlin
David’s latest recording projects are focused on collaborations with nightingales. As part of the work, Rothenberg and an international band of musicians perform music in concert with nightingales in Berlin’s public parks.
Feed The Way
By Kosmos
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Feed The Way
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The River Threshold
"She and I sat at a picnic table near a stream with a therapist who was also my uncle, and we said out loud in the summer June air that we couldn’t give what the other wanted. She said she couldn’t live with me anymore and be who she wanted to be. I said I couldn’t live indefinitely separate and fragmented. We said these things for the purpose of freeing each other, though freedom didn’t liberate…
The Noosphere Is Here
The great Jesuit anthropologist, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, has long fascinated us with his vision that the world would evolve into a “noosphere,” [1] a great web of consciousness enveloping the Earth. It seemed a lovely but distant ideal, yet the Digital Revolution has now made that dream a reality.
‘Dancing Your Animal’
Our spiritual relationship with other-than-human animals is timeless and complex.
Dear Reader,
I recently re-read Michael Harner’s classic, Way of the Shaman. Michael and Sandra Harner were pioneering legends of shamanism research. Michael first traveled to the Amazon rainforest in 1956 to study Shuar (Jivaro) and Shipibo-Conibo culture, and was one of the first outsiders to report…
The Pileated Woodpecker: Avian Divinity in a Time of Chaos
The Pileated Woodpecker: Avian Divinity in a Time of Chaos
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Fierce Compassion in the Anthropocene
By Willa Miller, via the Garrison Institute
During the winter season a few years ago, 108 inches of snow fell in Boston, breaking the record for the most seasonal snowfall in recorded history. And this snow, it did not melt. We watched it drift into six-foot banks in our backyard, burying our dwarf Japanese maple entirely.
Day after day dawned frigid, stinging our cheeks as soon as we walked…