What if the polycrisis — our multiple serious entangled ecological, social, political, etc., challenges — is actually a poly-chrysalis? Where many places of metamorphosis are co-existing as intertwined healing and transformation opportunities?
In this contemplative reflection, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee questions whether artificial intelligence can genuinely support spiritual growth. Contrasting AI’s reliance on accumulated past data with the timeless awareness of the awakened heart, he argues that real transformation arises from inner stillness, love, and reconnection with Earth—not technological acceleration.
In this excerpt from her book, 'The Nature Embedded Mind', Julie Brams challenges the assumption that cruelty and ecological destruction are simply “human nature.” She suggests instead that modern behavior reflects a civilization built on separation from Earth. By reclaiming a “Self-as-Earth” awareness, she argues, we can restore belonging, responsibility, and the possibility of sustainable culture.
A single wildlife photograph stops a writer mid-scroll, breaking through the numbness of our image-saturated lives. Confronted by a sloth clinging to a fencepost in fragmented habitat, he explores what it means to still be touched—by grief, tenderness, kinship—and what such moments ask of us.
In this deeply personal reflection, Lauren de Boer traces humanity’s spectacular evolutionary lineage—from stardust to photosynthesis, respiration, and the human hand—toward a renewed faith in life’s creative unfolding. Drawing on Teilhard de Chardin, he names “the great enamorment” as the universe’s love-in-action, calling us to live as conscious ancestors serving future generations.
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.
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.
In this meditative essay, Nathaniel Jaeg reflects on the aurora borealis and the mountains of Scandinavia as thresholds between myth and matter. Drawing on Norse cosmology and personal reverie, he invites us into a luminous realm where fire and frost, spirit and stone, memory and mystery waltz in cosmic rhythm.
Earth has an enormous capacity for regeneration. It’s possible to restore Earth’s natural climate regulating systems through decentralized rain water retention, reforestation and regenerative agriculture. We realized that in times of perpetual government failure to do something about the climate crisis, this good news needed to be spread, urgently.
I’ve been sitting at this pond for ten minutes and have seen only eight dragonflies: my young male, six other meadowhawks, and two great mossy darners. According to my journal, I observed eight different species here exactly a year ago. Although one hummingbird and two violet-green swallows are here hunting them, insects seem scarce.