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What is wealth—not just spiritual wealth but material wealth—as we move past the world-story of domination, competition, and control? How can we practice it now?
39 min
Michael Pollen explains the ego's "location" in the brain: It would be the default mode network, where much of your self-critical mind chatter happens. Taking psychedelics down-regulates this brain network.
6 min
Throughout history, as entire civilizations have withered and mankind has continued to move at a breathless pace, the trees have remained. For some, these trees harbor the secrets to longevity. For others, they provide clear evidence of our journey across lifetimes and the...
41 min
John Pilger's documentary, THE DIRTY WAR ON THE NHS, "goes to the heart of the struggle for democracy today", he says. Britain's National Health Service, the NHS, was the world's first universal public health service. Designed to give millions of people "freedom from fear"...
105 min
The tumbling dance of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations can polish the rough rocks of your life story into precious gemstones.
Polls show that over 70% of the country supports Medicare for All! But what does it mean? Some politicians are trying to turn to Medicare for All into a catch-all term that means any kind of health care reform. But Medicare for All means something specific: a single...
4 min
All our knowledge comes from nature and yet nature is a source of many mysteries.
51 min
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
This is a film for those moments when we (again) hit rock bottom, when we're back in that old familiar place where nothing feels right, we hate ourselves and the future looks bleak. It's so easy to be sad - but maybe there could be another option? Maybe we could learn to make...
6 min
Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentary Love School.
“Oh, home, let me come home
Home is whenever I’m with you.”
~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes
As I pull
Ian Mackenzie
Good food is key to our survival and well-being. Eating local food is a powerful solution-multiplier — it reduces our carbon footprint, pollution, and waste, while creating dignified livelihood opportunities, strengthening communities and local economies, and strengthening...
Local Futures
‘Use and value diversity’ is one of the ten core principles of permaculture — for good reason. Studies have shown that small, diversified farms can yield more than twice as much food per acre when compared to large monocultures. Crop diversity significantly contributes to...
63 min
When it comes to helping people and planet, the way we grow our food is important. But building a healthy “food web” — healthy connections between producers, retailers and consumers — is also key.
53 min
These days, it can be difficult to find processed foods that aren’t made by mega-corporations; foods that aren’t full of added sugars, genetically modified corn, and chemicals we would rather not put in our bodies; foods that weren’t made in factories that harm the...
58 min
Decades ago, David Foster Wallace foresaw the problems that technology, media, and entertainment would cause for this generation. We now live in the internet/information age, where technology and media are inescapable. During Wallace's later life, he pointed out the problems...
8 min
It is not as if the internet and age of information is bad, but it's not as if it's good. In this video, Pursuit of Wonder explores why, during an era where there is more information than ever about how to live and be happy, we are more confused and less happy than ever, in...
8 min
Across the United States, telecom providers have begun mapping their plans to deploy 5G “small,” microwave-emitting cellular sites throughout neighborhoods. Every person deserves to be informed about what’s happening and what’s within every household’s ability to control.
Katie Singer
Dr. Gabor Maté gives a beautiful speech on human nature and the implications culture has on our ability to maintain it. In this segment of the speech, he discusses four different categories of self-alienation and provides a sentiment of hope to stay in touch with our true...
6 min
On Wednesday, the day it was announced that the U.S. birthrate fell for the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconian anti-abortion law in the country. That the two developments came at the
Chris Hedges
In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earth’s most radical social experiments in human futurism. Tamera began in the “free love” utopian movements of the 1960s’ and 70’s, building upon the insight that the liberation of...
4 min
If you have had a spiritual practice or have experience with personal growth workshops, you have no doubt heard many times that letting go of attachment increases happiness and well-being. The principle is simple, but exactly what does it mean to let go of attachment, and...
Miki Kashtan
Jamie Wheal documented the new psychedelic renaissance in his bestselling book 'Stealing Fire', where he talked about the transformative potential of flow states and psychedelics. Since then he has become increasingly concerned and disillusioned with the direction of the...
45 min
In episode two of The Guardian's series on modern masculinity, Iman Amrani met Neil Smedley, a barber shop owner in Leeds. In the interview they did together Neil spoke about a range of issues, some of them very personal, and they felt that they couldn't do his story justice...
43 min
This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.
Iishana Artra, PhD
Our way of being — the intentions, attitudes, and quality of the energy that we bring to an interaction — is more important than the particular words we choose to speak. The heart of Nonviolent Communication is not about speaking using a particular recipe. Rather it is about...
Bob Wentworth
Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the ocean’s tiniest problem.
5 min
Maslow's Hierarchy, (or Pyramid), of Needs is one of the central ideas in modern economics and sociology. The work of a once little-known American psychologist, it has grown into an indispensable guide to understanding the modern world. This film explains who Maslow was, what...
7 min
Nurses in New York City are pushing back against hospital systems that put profits over patients and threaten their efforts to strike for safer staffing ratios. While nurses are fighting, physicians, so far, have remained on the sidelines of this struggle.
Mike Pappas
The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.
Michaela Haas
We see and judge women based on the perspective of super rich white men who also tend to own the beauty competitions and the cosmetic companies.
Tamara Pearson
Professional skinny person Wiz Khalifa said straight men should not eat bananas in public. Here's a running list of things straight black men "can't" do because #masculinitysofragile.
3 min
It’s hard to overstate just how common jokes about men being sexually assaulted are in entertainment media. Most popular comedic actors engage in this type of humor. Jokes are typically designed to demean, humiliate, control, or emasculate a male character for being the...
64 min
Robert Reich explains how expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would boost wages for millions of working Americans.
5 min
"So what can I do, as an individual?"
Miki Kashtan
As the President sounds off about holy babies born and unborn, we talk about the ongoing criminalization of women who happen to get pregnant. What has been the media’s role and have they done enough to make amends? We’ll talk to Lynn Paltrow, one of the lawyers representing...
27 min
Many men think our power is in our brains or our balls.
Bryan Reeves
In a powerful talk, educator Eldra Jackson III shares how he unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity through Inside Circle, an organization that leads group therapy for incarcerated men. Now he's helping others heal by creating a new image of what it means to be a...
12 min
Abundant Land is a one-hour documentary about a Hawaiian community on Moloka’i opposing the biotech industry’s use of the island to test genetically engineered seeds. Agrochemical biotech corporations, including Monsanto and Mycogen Seeds, are depleting Moloka’i’s topsoil and...
62 min
When Kim was a tiny person, maybe three years old, just when our human sense of actually existing-as-a-separate-being-with-a-self starts to emerge, Kim lived in a family where people were frightened, and angry, and sometimes kind, and sometimes scornful. When Kim would start...
Sarah Peyton
Beyond patriarchy there is love. Real love. The kind of love that renders words inadequate and time malleable. The kind of love that reminds us that “open hearted” is not a metaphor, but a literal description of a way to be in our bodies. The kind of love that transforms...
Simon Mont
Historian Rutger Bregman found a way to end poverty. Obviously we had to ask him how!
6 min
[Editor’s Note: We at Tikkun have been proud to have articles from Deena Metzger, whose novel A Rain of Night Birds was reviewed on our website by Cynthia Travis on October 11, 2018. In this piece, Metzger captures the grief and pain we all experience living at a time of...
Deena Metzger
"In what is becoming a field of near-identical documentaries featuring similar experts, research, and opinion, Grant Dixon’s film stands apart with its unique, homegrown feel. His in-depth exploration of the whys and wherefores behind his own health scare introduces us to the...
87 min
Rapper KYLE on race, toxic masculinity, depression and being the happiest rapper alive!
7 min
Has wokeness replaced compassion with moral superiority?
5 min
I have felt that learning to deal with painful emotional states is one of the most important aspects of growth. It affects our love relationships and how we deal with the inevitable disappointments, losses and rejections that life brings. It also determines our ability to...
Krishnananda
Two of the most supportive things parents can do for their children are healing their own attachment trauma (thereby further developing their own neural pathways for emotional regulation and secure attachment) and reclaiming disowned parts.
Eric Bowers
To address the dramatic increase in mental and emotional distress in the U.S., we must move beyond a focus on the individual and think of well-being as a social issue.
Tabita Green
When we allow ourselves to fall victim to hatred, we are doing our opponents’ work for them.
Susan L. Rhodes and Charles R. Schwenk
Can we be addicted to ideology? Gabor Maté is an world famous expert on addiction - in his book 'In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts' he talks about how addiction is best viewed not as a crime or illness but as a coping mechanism for a personal, spiritual crisis.
26 min
Why do 70% of people claim that using psychedelics was one of the most meaningful experiences of their lives? Maybe it has to do with the feeling of their ego being dissolved and tapping into the true essence of reality.
6 min
Yoga has transformed from an ancient spiritual practice into a competitive, commercialized, multi-million dollar industry. And for a practice rooted in renunciation, yoga is making some people very rich. YOGA INC. poses this question: Can yoga survive the war between the...
58 min
Physician burnout, depression, and suicide increasingly invade discussions within the medical field. Depression and suicide are more common among male and female physicians, with suicide rates 1.41 and 2.27 times greater than that of the general male and female populations...
Dr. Michael Pappas
Arthur McNeil is a formerly homeless long distance runner who raises money for shelters on cross-country runs. This film attempts to capture Arthur's story and warm character in a short documentary film. This documentary focuses on themes of homelessness, gentrification, and...
7 min
The Monsanto Papers investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant #Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, #Roundup.
42 min
Is Trump Acting Out His Childhood Trauma On The People Of America? Today's video features Dr. Gabor Maté a renowned expert in addiction and trauma - here he is diagnosing Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and Obama! Check out the full Under The Skin episode here.
10 min
Have you ever felt like you just don’t belong? Like you’re a pink chicken in a field of graceful giraffes, or that perhaps you came to the wrong planet? Certainly many people seem to feel this way, either about their families, or their community, their sexuality and culture...
Azriel ReShel
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
You may have bumped into the term toxic masculinity during your travels around the internet. It usually shows up in connection with particularly abusive male behavior, but what does it really mean?
7 min
Veganism has rocketed in the UK over the past couple of years – from an estimated half a million people in 2016 to more than 3.5 million – 5% of our population – today. Influential documentaries such as
Isabella Tree
I was at the beach the other day with some friends and after a rousing game of ‘apprehend the frisbee before it nails an unsuspecting stranger,’ we all settled on the sand to chat and observe our fellow beachgoers.
Brock Armstrong
Australian filmmaker Peter Charles Downey takes us on a personal and cathartic journey of empowerment, redemption, and healing.
56 min
“Sacred Earth” by Emmy Award® winning director Jan Nickman is a unique Nature Immersion Experience through the stunning beauty of the Sacred Lands of the American Southwest. White sand deserts, ancient slot canyons and the stunning red rock landscapes of Arizona, New Mexico...
41 min
To be online all the time and everywhere. It sounds great, but it has its drawbacks. As digital networks are closing in, there are fewer places to be really on your own. Being offline is becoming a luxury. Where can you be offline?
47 min
Herman Ottoson of the Raw Man leads a group at the Nordic Men's Gathering - part of the launch of Men's Movement 2.0.
4 min
Healing Trauma dives into the inner struggle of former gang members whose abusive childhoods inevitably lead to an anger that resulted in a criminal lifestyle and landed them in prison. Upon their release, these former gang members found their redemption with Homeboy...
23 min
Åsmund Vonheim Seip: In the smiling forests of Pennsylvania, I had the chance to sit down with this beautiful man, Seppi Garrett. Seppi is a body worker, a massage therapist, a permaculturalist—but aren’t we all so much more than what we say we do? And what about the...
6 min
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
Precisely 50 years ago, the international anti-imperialistic students’ movement culminated in the uprisings in France. At that time, Dieter Duhm, a psychoanalyst and sociologist, was a spokesman of the “new left” in the German students’ movement and coined the slogan...
Dr. Dieter Duhm
People’s first experience of the system is often profoundly alienating. This is not the fault of their teachers but of the system itself, which assesses us for a particular kind of intelligence. We pass or fail on ridiculously narrow criteria. I was lucky at school because I...
6 min
Communities can do more than just put a Band-Aid on the problem of gentrification and displacement, and a panel of researchers who held a forum at the Democracy Collaborative’s offices in Washington discussed the best thinking and work happening on both sides of the Atlantic...
Isaiah J. Poole
For many marginalized people, social justice communities are an essential form of social and emotional support. They can bring the oppressed and isolated together and help keep them afloat in a world that is at turns indifferent and cruel. While these communities often aim to...
Prefigurology
Sara Zaltash shares her experience of a transformational process to heal the division between men and women, and what it would like for men to step up into greater responsibility.
9 min
Imagine you are born into a small community in which everyone knows each other. Your parents are valued in the community and are well supported. As a baby and young child, you are often held, carried, or wrapped against your mother or father, and they are very responsive to...
Eric Bowers
When we think of a privileged childhood, we often think of swimming pools, nannies and expensive education. In fact, of course, the only childhoods that properly deserve the word 'privileged' are those in which there was an abundance of love.
5 min
The Circle of Courage is based in four universal growth needs of all children: belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.
Reclaiming Youth At Risk
I have never spoken with a school shooter, but I’ve talked with many teenage boys and young men who—though behaviorally nonviolent themselves—emotionally connect with the anger, alienation, and hopelessness of school shooters.
Bruce E. Levine
Liberation psychology doesn’t equate a lack of adjustment with mental illness, but instead promotes constructive rebellion against dehumanizing institutions, and which also provides strategies to build a genuinely democratic society.
Bruce E. Levine
What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?
- Gloria Steinem
Mr. Kanamori, a teacher of a 4th grade class, teaches his students not only how to be students, but how to live. He gives them lessons on teamwork, community, the...
41 min
“8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance” was originally published in 2011, then republished on several Internet sites, and has become one of my most viewed articles. The eight reasons include: student-loan debt; various pacifying...
Bruce E. Levine
Retailers around the country are shuttering stores — a list that ranges from Toys R Us, which just announced it’s closing or selling all its U.S. locations, to brands including Footlocker, J. Crew and Macy’s that are shrinking their brick-and-mortar operations. But one...
7 min
And why I think you should also do it
Gustavo Tanaka
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
Qualities like gender, ethnicity, and nationality tend to define us more than being human. What happens when we try to identify with all of humanity?
Juliana Breines
Dr. Stephen Ilardi is a professor of clinical psychology and the author of The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.
23 min
The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems.
5 min
Thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome on the Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, the legacy of over a decade of US nuclear tests in the Pacific. Now rising sea levels are threatening to spill its contents into the sea.
42 min
Peter Joseph speaks at The University of Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 8th 2017, about the themes from his new book: The New Human Rights Movement.
120 min
Paul Stamets is a mycologist, author and advocate of bioremediation and medicinal fungi. In this animation he describes the incredible properties of fungi as well as an overview of how mushrooms could have played a massive role in the evolution of human consciousness.
11 min
When most people think of romance, they think of flowers and chocolate, candlelight dinners and sunset walks, dancing, poetry, and diamond rings. These types of romance happen most consistently during the falling-in-love phase of a relationship. Further into the relationship...
Eric Bowers
How can we move forward as men and women in the wake of the #metoo campaign? Psychotherapist and relationship expert Louise Mazanti PhD talks to Rebel Wisdom founder and journalist David Fuller.
For more details on Louise Mazanti: https://www.mazantilousada.com/
They also...
28 min
It’s the hard things that break; soft things don’t break…You can waste so many years of your life trying to become something hard in order not to break, but it’s the soft things that can’t break! The hard things are the ones that shatter into a million pieces! – C. Joybell...
Joshua Kauffman
Positive thinking may be useless or even damaging, but negative thinking is unlikely to change the world for the better.
Alessandra Pigni
What are the challenges facing men today? Former US Army Ranger and philosopher Michael Robillard looks at the growing sense of alienation felt by men and how to find a sense of belonging.
50 min
Deepening Relationships with Presence and Acceptance
Heather Plett
By discouraging the use of powerful self-healing and self-development tools we may weaken those who are already disempowered.
Sonja Avlijaš
A gun problem, a shooter problem, a racism problem, a mental health problem, a human problem.
A violence problem.
Violence.
It’s not just a bullet or a knife.
It’s an infection
That permeates through people, relationships and society.
Imagine:
You’re bullied by a boss, it...
Simon Mont
What is it that makes so many boys grow up to believe that sex is theirs for the taking?
Ruth C. White Ph.D.
Have you ever been told when you’re stressed to stop worrying and just relax? That it’s all in your head? It would be nice if it were that simple. But it’s not.
Melody Walford