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Peter Russell’s award-winning video, based on a live audio-visual presentation in 1983. He explores the idea that the Earth is an integrated, self-regulating living organism and asks what function humanity might have for this planetary being. It suggests that we stand on the...
35 min · 49,644 views · 4.5 stars
14 min · 3,283 views · 5 stars
In the 1970s, a strange psychological phenomenon was identified: in traumatic abduction situations, a certain percentage of the population is prone to falling in love with their abductors. But if we are living in a societal prison of the mind, then are there those who have f
30 min · 3,091 views · 4 stars
NEURONS TO NIRVANA is a feature documentary about the resurgence of psychedelics as medicine. Through interviews with the world’s foremost researchers, writers, psychologists and pioneers in psychedelic psychotherapy, the film explores the history of five powerful psychedelic...
2 min · 5,566 views · 3.8 stars
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 · 6,976 views · 4.5 stars
For the past two years, Alter Ego has been gathering new cultural and political leaders to rethink politics and our vision of progress. This is a behind the scenes of our first gathering in 2016, where we explored spirituality as a transformative source of political renewal...
4 min · 1,690 views · 4.2 stars
In his keynote at the Burning Man European Leadership Summit, Ronan Harrington calls for a politics that recognises the one thing that we all have in common: our vulnerability.
30 min · 1,974 views · 4.8 stars
Researchers found unlikely heroes in keeping the world from authoritarianism - magic mushrooms. Scientists from the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London showed that psilocybin, the active compound in psychedelic mushrooms, makes people less likely to embrace...
Paul Ratner · 21,075 views · unrated
At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did he ultimately get out?
21 min · 804 views · unrated
Our consumer culture is collective insanity and it's driving us to destruction, says clinical psychologist John F Schumaker.
John F Schumaker · 4,063 views · 5 stars
Soul is often defined as the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal. This definition is not without its critics, as it arbitrarily stops at animals. What about plants and trees? Do they have souls? Indeed, it could be argued that plants and trees have some...
Terry Sexton ·
3,469 views · 4.8 stars
Leading depression expert and clinical psychologist Dr Michael Yapko draws on research and shares his insights from 40 years of working with those suffering this common mental health issue. Learn the simple skills that research shows can help you or a loved one to recover ...
63 min · 307 views · unrated
The shifts in consciousness brought about by psychedelics could help to dissolve our fear of the other.
Vikram Zutshi · 1,106 views · 4.5 stars
How a ruthless network of super-rich ideologues killed choice and destroyed people’s faith in politics
George Monbiot · 276 views · 4 stars
Do you sometimes feel that the world around you is negative? Do you get easily irritated and frustrated, not knowing how to deal with this negativity, and lack the energy needed to keep going in your life? If so, here are some powerful tips that will help you to keep calm, be...
Sofo Archon · 17,073 views · 5 stars
A fascinating insight into what perpetuates patriarchy in our society, and how we can change it.
Bethany Webster · 22,256 views · 5 stars
Kathleen Kendall-Tackett examines how other cultures protect new mothers’ well-being.
Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett · 312,791 views · 4.5 stars
“In every American community you have varying shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these is the liberals. An outspoken group on many subjects, ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them...
Bruce E. Levine · 1,146 views · 4 stars
About half a decade ago, Jordan Peterson was a psychology professor at the University of Toronto and clinical psychologist with little international fame and even less infamy. A talented teacher and skilled speaker, he conveyed expertise within his domain and gave prestigious...
Openwide Contributor · 5,119 views · 5 stars
By discouraging the use of powerful self-healing and self-development tools we may weaken those who are already disempowered.
Sonja Avlijaš · 2,622 views · unrated
Anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia
Caty Borum Chattoo · 2,391 views · 5 stars
It is well known that economic inequality is rising. In most industrialised nations the distribution of wealth and income is becoming increasingly concentrated. In the United States, the top 10% of earners make more than nine times as much on average as the remainder, and in...
Nick Haslam · 6,846 views · 4.2 stars
Lately, new ways to describe human interactions, social behaviours, and many facets of psychology have emerged on the social network scene. One of those descriptions is “high emotional intelligence.”
Raven Fon · 149,483 views · 4 stars
Have you ever noticed how we, as a society, use agricultural metaphors to talk about parenting and education? We speak of raising children, just as we speak of raising tomatoes or chickens. We speak of training children, just as we speak of training horses. Our manner of...
Peter Gray, Ph.D. · 1,342 views · 4 stars
Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that leaves us disoriented and bereft of purpose. How can we treat our sick culture and make ourselves well? asks John F Schumaker
John Schumaker · 224,122 views · 5 stars
If you’ve ever found yourself trapped in a seemingly endless loop of negative thinking, or wondered why you fixate on a stray rude comment but easily forget compliments, you may have a culprit to blame: evolution.
Kathleen Toohill · 57,815 views · 4.3 stars
The most difficult challenge facing humanity is not devising solutions to the energy crisis or climate crisis; rather, it is bringing stories or narratives of the human journey into our collective awareness that empower us to look beyond a future of great adversity and to see...
Duane Elgin · 4,956 views · 5 stars
You don't have infinite money. Spend it on stuff that research says makes you happy.
Jay Cassano · 17,741 views · 4.8 stars
The recently published piece titled ‘The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it.
As a budding cultural ecologist...
Sarah Levine · 21,595 views · 4.7 stars
This article is Part 3 in The Abs-Tract Organization’s series on Jordan B. Peterson, following from The Detraction of Jordan Peterson: Constructive Criticism to a Public Intellectual (A Critique), which was a follow-up to
Brent Cooper · 3,147 views · 5 stars
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 · 25,334 views · unrated
This can’t be turned into a story of us v them – because the real world is far more complicated than that
Samra Habib · 6,027 views · unrated
Relating to your partner, spouse or significant other can be challenging. Here's what the people who make it work know that you may not.
Starre Vartan · 26,497 views · unrated
Imagine a post-apocalyptic world in which resources are so scarce that the government decides that all grain must go to people rather than animals. Without animal feed, steak exists only as a memory, and eggs become black-market contraband. What would happen then?
Nathanael Johnson · 8,348 views · 3.2 stars
A new study finds that feeling small in nature makes us more generous to other humans.
Adam Hoffman · 2,229 views · 4 stars
Forty-five years after Timothy Leary, the apostle of drug-induced mysticism, urged his hippie followers to "turn on, tune in and drop out", researchers have found that magic mushrooms do change a user's personality – for the better.
The fungi have long been known...
Matt Blake · 23,983 views · 5 stars
From the crises in the Middle East to mass shootings in U.S. schools to the reckless striving for wealth and world domination, there is one overarching theme that almost never gets media coverage—the sense of insignificance that drives destructive acts. As a depth...
Kirk Schneider · 7,080 views · 4 stars
Donald Trump insists that the border wall he wants built will be nothing less than beautiful. He has assured us that the latest version, a series of steel slats topped by triangular spikes, will fulfill the non plus ultra of architectural design: it will be “totally effective...
Sandra Lubarsky · 1,118 views · unrated
Our values are generally defined as principles or standards of behaviour. They are what we use to help us judge of what is important to us in our lives. Some of our values form the core of who we are and change very little throughout our lives. Whilst some of our other values...
Terry Sexton ·
604 views · 3.8 stars
This thing we call female body-image - the relationship which women have to our own bodies - is, without doubt, in need of urgent attention. I know from my own deep exploration of the subject, that as a woman, I am unable to really separate my own sense of self from the...
Ayla Amano · 1,206 views · unrated
Ayahausca is a traditional plant medicine from the Amazon used to treat a variety of physical and psychology illnesses and conditions. This documentary explores the use of the Ayahausca as a holistic medicine, challenging stigmas around its use and helping people become more...
59 min · 1,747 views · 4 stars
Kindred World is proud to launch The Evolved Nest’s educational short film, Breaking the Cycle. The moving and inspirational six-minute film illustrates our capacity for breaking our current Cycle of Competitive Detachment and returning to the pattern of 95% of our human...
6 min · 2,020 views · 5 stars
This is the full interview of Dr Roxy Manning on the subject of Nonviolent Communication.
35 min · 462 views · unrated
PHASE 1 - EARLY VICTIMS First victims are creatives (default value of creativity is zero) Back office (clerical, administrative) is on deck RULE OF THUMB: forgivable and unregulated jobs most vulnerable
40 min · 522 views · unrated
We shouldn't reduce all play to entertaining play. Some play is the serious play that engages fundamental transformative processes for us.
Rafe Kelley in conversation with John Vaervake.
5 min · 4,153 views · unrated
Around one billion people struggle with stress-related illness globally - and that figure is rising. What protects those with good mental health? Is their resilience innate? Or is the ability to withstand chronic stress and crisis something that can be learned? In the search...
52 min · 440 views · unrated
Video essay on the ubiquity of lying, both in the stories we tell as well as in real life, and why perhaps we should try being a little more honest.
15 min · 3,949 views · unrated
Exploring the Archetype of the Warrior in films, based on Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette’s King, Warrior, Magician, Lover and Carol S. Pearson’s The Hero Within.
13 min · 3,215 views · 5 stars
Prof. Wolff responds to Jordan Peterson's assertions about Marxism.
5 min · 4,540 views · 4 stars
It's interesting to watch Breaking Bad and realize most people probably think/fear the world is run by thugs who would do anything for
Tim Anderson ·
3,910 views · 5 stars
Dr. Robert Sapolsky discusses some rather amazing discoveries related to the social and personal consequences of hierarchy.
9 min · 57,228 views · 4.9 stars
"WHAT'S WRONG WITH OUR WORLD? THIS IS A FILM FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KNOW."
78 min · 34,804 views · 4.1 stars
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.
11 min · 24,664 views · 4.3 stars
"We [should] tell new stories of the dream, not the nightmares. We must describe where we want to go, such as happier lives, and better cities."
Bill Kilby · 93,569 views · 4 stars
We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some sort of screen or device. We're enthralled, we're addicted to these machines. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and...
129 min · 23,966 views · 4.8 stars
Professor Haidt argues that conflicts arise at many American universities today because they are pursuing two potentially incompatible goals: truth and social justice. While Haidt thinks both goals are important, he maintains that they can come into conflict. According to...
67 min · 2,147 views · unrated
Tough Talk is a documentary series created to reduce the stigma surrounding men's mental health. Sam O'Sullivan is a Kiwi psychologist who gets off the beaten track and travels in his van around his home country of New Zealand to film conversations with everyday men about...
200 min · 7,187 views · 4.8 stars
The next generation needs a paradigm and a code of identity that bind with a sense of purpose, community, and mission; an idea and a feeling that transcend superficial characteristics (like skin color, gender and orientation).
25 min · 3,231 views · unrated
Longer school years aren't the answer. The problem is school itself. Compulsory teach-and-test simply doesn't work.
Peter Gray · 16,737 views · 5 stars
People who diligently follow their horoscopes may claim that it's all just good fun. But on closer examination, this claim falls flat. Here's why astrology is potentially damaging to our understanding of science, relationships — and even our place in the universe...
George Dvorsky · 5,190 views · unrated