Articles

Belonging

Tragic Exiles and the Ache for Belonging

Gabriel's essay explores alienation as a loss not only of home, but of the embodied, interbeing relationship with all of Life. Drawing from indigenous wisdom, language theory, mystical teachings, and early Christian texts, it calls for a return—not to dogma, but to the felt sense of unity and sacred relatedness that predates religion.

Perception

Negotiating Fluidity

By Bridget A. Lyons

In this immersive and vividly detailed essay, a visiting artist joins a team of wildlife biologists in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to study common eiders amid a rapidly melting seascape. What begins as a fieldwork adventure unfolds into a deep contemplation of perception, disorientation, and ecological unraveling.

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Interbeing

The Practice of Ecological Mentalizing

By Nina Pyykkönen

Blending the insights of Carl Jung, Iain McGilchrist, and indigenous knowledge systems, the piece articulates a path forward that honors both the analytical mind and the symbolic heart. Ecological mentalizing is framed not as regression to a past worldview, but as the integration of ancient intuition with modern awareness.

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Resilience

Rupture and Reweaving

By Jeanne Simmons

This gallery explores the deep bond between humans and the natural world through wearable art made of organic materials—grass, lace, kelp, bark. Each piece emerges from grief, resilience, and reverence, revealing nature as healer, muse, and mirror of our inner lives. A meditation on beauty, loss, and belonging.

Generations

Passing Time

By Rosie Dub

As her son wakes with questions about black holes and infinity, the author follows him into a conversation that bridges astrophysics with ancestry, parenting with cosmic continuity. Interwoven with observations on grief, embodiment, and the passing of days, the piece reminds us that time is not only measured in minutes, but in meaning, and that children often hold the key to remembering how to live in the now.

Collapse

Preparing for the Darkness and Holding the Light

By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Mystic and Sufi teacher Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee offers a deeply personal and prophetic reflection on the spiritual dimensions of ecological collapse and civilizational decline. Rooted in both visionary experience and ecological witness, he names this time as the Darkening of the Light—an era in which the sacred recedes and humanity must prepare not just externally, but inwardly, for a long winter of the soul.

Process

Accompanied

By Mary Putera

Mary Putera offers the rare privilege of witnessing a painting’s emergence—moving from silence and devastation toward light and form. Each stage reveals art as a way of metabolizing grief and rediscovering Beauty, inviting us to presence pain and co-create the conditions for renewal.

Unity

From Leadership to Healership

By Dr. Joni Carley, Dr. Jude Currivan, Dr. Youssef Mahmoud, Grant Storry

This co-authored essay proposes a radical evolution of leadership—from directing others to healing the whole. Drawing on science, spiritual wisdom, and the urgency of the polycrisis, the authors frame leadership as a sacred act of stewardship across generations.