A Cloud Never Dies | A Film about the Life of Thích Nhất Hạnh
A new documentary about the life of Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay), premiered Saturday, April 2 on YouTube. Narrated by actor Peter Coyote, the film provides an intimate glimpse into the life of the global spiritual leader, poet, and human rights activist who is revered around the world for his pioneering teachings on mindfulness, global ethics, and peace. VIDEO
The Great Simplification
By Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification will be the era of the 21st century where we unwind a lot of the complexity built into our system over the last century of fossil fuel addiction. It doesn't have to be a disaster, but it's going to mean a different sort of existence. VIDEOS | INTERVIEW
Trauma and Healing for Boys and Men of Color
Activists and leaders explore the deep traumas they and their communities suffer from, and how to develop strategies of responsibility and accountability that face the truth, but also create conditions for deep healing and prevent these wounds from undermining families, communities and selves.
Erasure of Indigenous Identity
"Toxic masculinity paints us as skilled warriors who hunted Buffalo with our bare hands, gnashing meat off the bone, and made ridiculous powerful love every night. There’s no time for Gardening when you’re doing all those manly things, now is there?"
Finding Ben | Mental Health, Justice, and Healing
After his son took his own life, a veteran journalist finds healing and hope in a San Quentin Prison men's group called Guiding Rage Into Power (GRIP). A new journalism Fellowship for improved mental health reporting gives voice to the silenced. VIDEO | ESSAY | INTERVIEW
In Search of the Sacred Masculine
By Jason McLay
Forcing hyper-masculine energy to change with more hyper-masculine energy is not going to work. We are already seeing this failure in many aspects of our society and economy. And while the Divine Feminine is rising, balance is yet to come.
Ritual Fire and Sacred Masculinity
The ManKind Project runs intensive weekend trainings for men and supports peer-facilitated men’s groups. They have 750 men’s groups operating in the United States and in 26 countries around the world.
Sacred Masculine
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Maleness and masculinity are not the same. When we speak about ‘male and female’, we are talking about gender. ‘Masculine and feminine’, on the other hand, are qualities expressed in all Life. The Masculine is neither inherently positive nor negative, healthy nor toxic. It is inherently sacred. The same goes for the Feminine. And by sacred I…
March’s Featured Poet | Marilyn Johnston
Union Street Bridge
I’ve crossed this bridge hundreds of times,
yet I saw it so clearly today—two snags,
as if the frame of a picture, curtains opened
to the world below. The homeless man
follows me with his shopping cart with all
he owns, telling me in his slurred speech
and watery eyes about the woman in his tent
who refuses to wake up, and it’s already
late afternoon. I want so much to stand…
Seeing Truth in Van Gogh
Van Gogh did not paint a mulberry tree, he painted the life force of the tree. He did not paint stars. He painted the turbulent energy of the cosmos.