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Why I Live the Life of a Modern Hunter-Gatherer
Why I Live the Life of a Modern Hunter-Gatherer
A friend recently said to me, Kyer, if I were in your financial situation, Id be freaking out.
Kyer Wiltshire
10 Reasons to Embrace Wildness
10 Reasons to Embrace Wildness
Henry David Thoreau once wrote the words, "In wildness is the preservation of the world." Though Thoreau lived in his cabin on the shores of Walden Pond many years ago, those words hold a deep truth. Wildness can mean so many different things to so many different people, but...
We Are Wildness
What It Was Like For These Men To Get Photoshopped With "Ideal" Male Bodies
What It Was Like For These Men To Get Photoshopped With "Ideal" Male Bodies
The Try Guys recreate famous photos of male celebrities and are photoshopped with their ideal body types.
11 min
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Positive Parenting: How to Raise Your Children With Unconditional Love
Parenthood lies deep within us. We are wired to help our little ones survive and prosper. Modern life, however, has removed us from our natural environment. It can be hard to raise a child in world of fear and distractions. Science and psychology bring back a big dose of...
Vegard Gjerde
Used and Betrayed - 100 Years of US Troops as Lab Rats
Used and Betrayed - 100 Years of US Troops as Lab Rats
On Memorial Day, politicians will speak at ceremonies all over the country and repeat their favorite mantra: Support the troops.
31 min
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy
"My dad was an abusive alcoholic, or whatever. He'd go to the bar, come home drunk, find out I'd f-cked up at school, and he'd choke me out."
Panic Volkushka
How-And Why-To Take Your Life Back From Email
How-And Why-To Take Your Life Back From Email
Regain your time, attention, and energy from the email machine.
Christine Carter
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
The past is never dead. Its not even past. William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun
Mark Wolynn
Here Are 4 Bad Messages About Masculinity We Should Stop Telling Young Boys
Here Are 4 Bad Messages About Masculinity We Should Stop Telling Young Boys
Masculinity is having a moment but it's not a good one.
Alex Mierjeski
Are Our Smartphones Afflicting Us All With Symptoms of ADHD?
Are Our Smartphones Afflicting Us All With Symptoms of ADHD?
When was the last time you opened your laptop midconversation or brought your desktop computer to the dinner table? Ridiculous, right? But if you are like a large number of Americans, you have done both with your smartphone.
Kostadin Kushlev
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
In his humorous and uplifting style, Gever Tulley debunks classic myths of childhood safety. With rampant fear mongering, is it any wonder that children are actually over-protected? Instead, Tulley believes the most effective way to keep children safe is to give them a little...
6 min
Why the Ocean Calls to Us, According to Science
Why the Ocean Calls to Us, According to Science
5 ways water can heal the mind and body and help you tap into your most calm and creative state of being
Carolyn Gregoire
What The Wise Ones Mean When They Say "It Was a Good Day"
What The Wise Ones Mean When They Say "It Was a Good Day"
What does "a good day" mean to you?
3 min
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
Mindfoodness - An Animated Examination of Industrial Food Production
We live in a world were most people live in an urban environment, cut off from the origins of the food they consume. This short animated filmtakes us into the world of animal agriculture to exposehow the animals who end up on our plates are raised and the effect this has on...
4 min
Caitlin Moran's Ode to The NHS
Caitlin Moran's Ode to The NHS
An NHS waiting room. It waits for all of us, even as some of us - patients, carers, loved ones - wait IN it. A dark cluster of trouble on an X-ray may have brought you here. Too few drops of serotonin; too many of cortisol. But now, this building, with all its people and...
6 min
Cold at Home
Cold at Home
Thrilled to announce that this film won 1st Prize for Long Documentary Category at the Danish Press Awards in March 2017!!!
9 min
Groundbreaking Study Shows Your Brain (Though Perhaps Not Your Ego) on LSD
Groundbreaking Study Shows Your Brain (Though Perhaps Not Your Ego) on LSD
"We are finally unveiling the brain mechanisms underlying the potential of LSD, not only to heal, but also to deepen our understanding of consciousness itself."
Jon Queally
Mutiny of the Soul, Revisited
Mutiny of the Soul, Revisited
Over the years, Ive probably received more mail about Mutiny of the Soul than any other essay Ive written. The idea of the article has been hugely validating for many readers: that depression, ADHD, anxiety, etc. arent chemical malfunctions of the brain, nor spiritual...
Charles Eisenstein
Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences
Toxic Love VS Healthy Love: 14 Core Differences
Love: Development of self first priority. Toxic love: Obsession with relationship.
Light Shifter
Overcoming Depression Fast - How to Smile Again...You Are Worthy
Overcoming Depression Fast - How to Smile Again...You Are Worthy
"This too shall pass" "The body is the subconscious mind."
23 min
The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine
The Wisdom Within: Sacred Masculine and Sacred Feminine
There is an ancient South American prophecy called theEagle and the Condor.
Jocelyn Mercado
Capitalism and Mental Health: How the Market Makes Us Sick
Capitalism and Mental Health: How the Market Makes Us Sick
Far from being a far-fetched pipe dream that human beings could never live under, pockets of anarchistic self-activity are what keep us sane in a profoundly insane world. This video mainly deals with how the capitalist system exerts massive amounts of pressure on individuals...
22 min
Celebrities Speak Out on Fame & Materialism
Celebrities Speak Out on Fame & Materialism
Everyone needs to hear this. The truth about fame from the people who went on that ride and sawwhere it leads.
6 min
"Women Can't Play Music"
"Women Can't Play Music"
Self-esteem holds us back and undermines our happiness; but it can be overcome
Joanne Stephens
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
The world needs all of us to become healers. It needs us to nurture the sacred feminine and the sacred masculine that lies dormant to various degrees
Tim Hjersted
#Istandup Against the Harm Caused by Objectification of Women in Advertising
#Istandup Against the Harm Caused by Objectification of Women in Advertising
A powerful new campaign wants advertisers to know that many consumers are fed up with how women are portrayed. Women Not Objects, a project dedicated to calling out the objectification of women in commercials, magazine spreads and other forms of advertising, has released a...
3 min
Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet
Ending Circumcision: Where Sex and Violence First Meet
Flowers In the Rain Cold, wet, and tired from the long morning rally, my eight year-old asks again why we are here. We are standing with about fifty other media people, organizers, and just your ordinary eccentrics, grandmothers and fathers, university professors, musicians...
Jeannine Parvati Baker
Kind is the New Cool
Kind is the New Cool
When I was in high school, I remember social banter consisting of a lot of subtle put-downs and one-upsmanship. The popular kids were generally not very nice, certainly not to us unpopular kids but not even to each other. I remember a few popular kids being nice to me on the...
Charles Eisenstein
Woman Confronts Former Spy Who Tricked Her Into a Relationship
Woman Confronts Former Spy Who Tricked Her Into a Relationship
The moment Helen Steel confronts the former police spy who deceived her, before disappearing without a trace, is caught on camera at Sydney airport. The British social justice campaigner had flown from London to Australia to confront John Dines, finally seeing him...
3 min
How Male Circumcision Harms Women
How Male Circumcision Harms Women
Learn about the hidden negative psychological and sexual effects of circumcision and how these effects harm women in relationships with men. This article is based on research reports in the medical and psychological literature.
Ronald Goldman
Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure
Depression Is a Disease of Civilization: Hunter-Gatherers Hold the Key to the Cure
Depression is a global epidemic. It is the main driver behind suicide, which now claims more than a million lives per year worldwide. One in four Americans will suffer from clinical depression within their lifetimes, and the rate is increasing with every generation.
Sara Burrows
We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need to Stop Using to Describe People
We Are All Human: 10 Labels We Need to Stop Using to Describe People
Humans have an innate desire to place labels on everything. Labels give people a sense of order, and a way of distinguishing things.
John Haltiwanger
Why People's Opinions of You Aren't Real
Why People's Opinions of You Aren't Real
Kyle Cease explains why you should never lose your inner child.
4 min
The Hidden Antidote for Depression
The Hidden Antidote for Depression
Depression is the unavoidable by-product of not being who you really are
Nanice Ellis
What It Means To Communicate
What It Means To Communicate
Recently, we were doing some work with a couple who were struggling in their relationship. They had been together for twelve years and had two children. It seemed that they fought about everything about raising their children, about sex, about finances, and about where and...
Krishnananda and Amana
Nobody Is Born a Terrorist
Nobody Is Born a Terrorist
Could you feel empathy for someone who has committed an act of terrorism?
Chris Agnos
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
The Steps Toward Self Empowerment
How many of you can recall situations in which you felt unjustly treated or taken advantage of and you did not stand up for yourself? Or remember finding yourself in a situation where you felt small and insignificant? Or recall generally feeling overwhelmed? For me, it has...
Krishnananda
Fantasies, Sex & Betrayal: Exploring Love's Shadow
Fantasies, Sex & Betrayal: Exploring Love's Shadow
We get an energy high in our initial time with someone but the going can get rough when we settle into life together. Most of us are deeply wounded with shame, insecurities and fears, full of mistrust but at the same time desperately needy for love. We bring this woundedness...
Krishnanada Trobe
Your Friend Is Dying and You're Reading Poetry?
Your Friend Is Dying and You're Reading Poetry?
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
4 min
6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises
6 Simple Self-Compassion Exercises
Its all too easy to be extremely tough on ourselves; we need at points to get better at self-compassion. Here is an exercise in how to lessen the voices of self-flagellation.
5 min
What's More Corrosive Than Flint's Water? The Cynicism of the Powerful
What's More Corrosive Than Flint's Water? The Cynicism of the Powerful
The Flint water crisis exposes like nothing else the toxic cynicism of America's ruling class, writes Jesse Jackson. In their privileged view, the victims of the lead poisoning are disposable 'unpersons' that matter less than General Motors' auto parts. But now they, and...
Jesse Jackson
If You've Ever Wondered What We're Here For... We Came to Dance!
If You've Ever Wondered What We're Here For... We Came to Dance!
We began with rhythm. From the beating of our mothers heart to the first kick in our mothers womb. We were born to move. We Came To Dance combines this rhythm that we all share, with the rhythm of music, dance and an epic piece of spoken word that unravels over the course of...
3 min
Reboot Your Life: 20 Mental Barriers You Should Let Go Of
Reboot Your Life: 20 Mental Barriers You Should Let Go Of
You are in an imaginary hot air balloon. Its just you and all of your belongings in the wicker basket. Something went wrong and you are losing altitude fast. You will hit the ground in less than ten minutes if you dont come up with something quick.
Gilbert Ross
The Commodification of Self Care and the Terrible Art of Relentless Self Love
The Commodification of Self Care and the Terrible Art of Relentless Self Love
Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forestthick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated. -Beau...
Rae Swersey
Loving-Kindness Meditation: A Practice That Helps Us Forgive Others
Loving-Kindness Meditation: A Practice That Helps Us Forgive Others
Loving-kindness meditation is also known asmetta meditation.
Elyane Youssef
Recovering From Betrayal: 7 Steps That Will Change Your Life
Recovering From Betrayal: 7 Steps That Will Change Your Life
I understand it hurts, and it hurts really badly. No one deserves to be treated the way you were. No one deserves to feel emotional pain tearing through their body or bringing them to their knees. You did nothing to deserve this and it is not your fault.
Kristen Brown
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress
Gross National Happiness Is a Profound Alternative to How Our Failing Economy Measures Progress
Bhutan is a living example that it is possible to develop in a different way, and is creating a caring economy based on the values ofaltruism, compassion and collaboration. It is clear to the billions still living in poverty today that theglobalized capitalist economy is...
3 min
The Gift of Presence
The Gift of Presence
Wherever you are, be all there. Jim Elliot
Evelyn Rennich
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
Water War Against the Poor: Flint and the Crimes of Capital
If ever one wondered about the efficacy of a state government agency imposing officials on local governments, Flint has answered that question forever.
Mumia Abu-Jamal
For Native Americans in Minnesota, Food is a Sign of Oppression
For Native Americans in Minnesota, Food is a Sign of Oppression
After hundreds of years of isolation, heres how the indigenous heroes are fighting to reclaim their cultural identity and their health.
9 min
My Special Place in Hell, Courtesy of Unfettered Greed
My Special Place in Hell, Courtesy of Unfettered Greed
'Women all over the country can write about the damage done to their lives by the rigged economy and the special place in hell they work to escape daily when trying to fight back.'
Donna Smith
Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou
Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou
Poet, teacher, activist and more-pay tribute to Dr. Maya Angelou and listen to her read her unforgettable poem "Phenomenal Woman."
2 min
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
On Men's Pain, Healing and Transformation
William Timothy Walker
How Stress Affects Your Brain
How Stress Affects Your Brain
Stress isnt always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when youre playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when its continuous, it actually begins to change your brain. Madhumita Murgia shows how chronic stress can...
4 min
This is the National Health Service (NHS)
This is the National Health Service (NHS)
The story of one of the most complex organisations in the world, told through the voices of those on the frontline.
3 min
10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy
10 Things They Won't Tell You About the Flint Water Tragedy
News of the poisoned water crisis in Flint has reached a wide audience around the world. The basics are now known: the Republican governor, Rick Snyder, nullified the free elections in Flint, deposed the mayor and city council, then appointed his own man to run the city. To...
Michael Moore
Racism: It's in the Water
Racism: It's in the Water
Racism isn't just about police brutality or the criminal justice system. It's in the air and water. The water crisis in Flint, Michigan is a textbook case of environmental racism. We explain how it's playing out across the country.
3 min
Do Not Send Us Bottles of Water. Instead, Join Us in a Revolt
Do Not Send Us Bottles of Water. Instead, Join Us in a Revolt
Many of you have contacted me wanting to know how you can help the people of Flint with the two-year long tragedy of drinking water contaminated by the radical decisions made by the Governor of Michigan. The offer is much appreciated by those who are suffering through this...
Michael Moore
How We Used to Die; How We Die Now
How We Used to Die; How We Die Now
An emergency physicians beautifully written and agonizingly empathic account of how we used to die starkly contrasted with how most people die now in our death-defying, death-dealing military industrial medicopharmaceuticalized culture.
Louis Profeta, M.D.
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Just Who Exactly Benefits Most From the Global Giving of Billionaires Like Bill Gates?
Is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting the interests of multinational corporations at the expense of social and economic justice?
Jon Queally