Seeds of Resilience
Through an extraordinary partnership of Zen practitioners and wildland firefighters, this essay explores how mindfulness and shared purpose cultivate resilience.
Thorns and Candy
A raw post-ceremony dialogue between philosopher Hannes Schumacher and Colombian ayahuasca guide Juliet Goméz. This exchange navigates terror, tenderness, and transformation, revealing how sacred medicine strips illusions, confronts suffering, and reorients us toward balance, humility, and love. A meditation on control, surrender, and the grace of healing.
The Mythology of Abuse
This essay breaks cultural silences surrounding childhood sexual abuse, revealing how myths of spectacle obscure everyday harm. Through personal truth and somatic practice, Abigail Testaberg explores pathways from fragmentation toward embodied safety and communal care—reminding us that healing is slow, relational work, a form of visible repair in a wounded world.
Passing Time
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.
Beyond Time | Returning to the Living Space of Connection
This essay critiques the divisive structures of modern Western thought and its reliance on categorization, separation, and hierarchical knowledge. Drawing on Ken Wilber’s models while gently transcending them, it contrasts fragmented worldviews with Indigenous and quantum paradigms rooted in relationality, space, and presence.
Flesh and Blood | On the Sacraments of Survival
Today, it is often only the presence of sustenance that gets acknowledged. The absence of such things is almost exclusively spoken of as poverty. But what if this contemporary poverty arises not from sustenance’s presence, but from having forgotten what is absent in that recognition?
Softening the Rhetoric: What Therapy Teaches Us About Social Change
Much of today’s social and climate justice culture focuses on change—yet often skips over the loss that comes with it. It’s okay to grieve what we’re leaving behind, even if it was flawed. It’s okay to feel conflicted. There’s a call for a softer approach to change—one that makes space for paradox, complexity, and the full spectrum of our emotions.
Composting Grief | Co-healing with the Earth
The concept of “composting grief’’ resonates as a way of transforming energy into a renewed sense of purpose and growth. I think of this as transmutation or snake medicine: sound, meditation, selfless service, praying, nature, movement. I propose that we explore the concept of a symbiotic relationship between human grief and its impact on the underground microbial life—the microbiome
Nature’s Guide to Ending Our Diet Wars
Can we agree to re-integrating plants and animals as they were evolved to live together? We can do this by promoting integrated organic farms, as well as by regreening desertified land. The clear energy efficiency of doing so will actually mitigate climate change much better than simply going vegan—and going vegan will still be just as available an option, side by side with other diets.
Vessels
We can practice 'unlearning' grasping and clinging by using the beauty of 'Colors In Motion' to entrain our minds and our nervous systems to accept flow. Flow is a healthy approach to the rapid changes humans are experiencing, and can expand our capacity to be present in every precious moment.