Coronavirus Will Expose Capitalism Like Never Before

Coronavirus casts a light on every single part of our society. We will see the best of humanity and the worst of Capitalism - Kevin Ovenden

6 min

Honest Government Ad | Coronavirus: Flatten The Curve

The Government has made an ad about the Coronavirus and its surprisingly honest and informative.

4 min

It's Medicare or Coronavirus-For-All

A healthy populace with regular access to affordable health care is the best defense against an epidemic like we now face.

Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

Trust Your Heart. Everything You Do Matters.

"This is a poignant situation. A woman is feeling pretty beat down in a pretty dark place who loves art, but shuts down when the question "what's the point?" inevitably creeps into her mind."- Charles Eisenstein

7 min

How to Turn Your Brain From Anger to Compassion

Attention is like a spotlightwhatever it shines on becomes brighter in the mind. This knowledge can help us build compassion, says Paul Gilbert.

Paul Gilbert

Ten Steps That Transform Anger Into Compassionate Connection

Practicing Nonviolent Communication guides us to reframe the way we listen to others and express ourselves by focusing our consciousness on four areas: what we are observing, feeling, needing and what we are requesting to enrich our lives. In this context the word need...

Center for Nonviolent Communication

Canceling | ContraPoints

Contrapoints' 100 minute video essay on "cancel" activism.

100 min

“Shit-Life Syndrome,” Trump Voters, and Clueless Dems

Getting rid of Trump means taking seriously shit-life syndromeand its resulting misery, which includes suicide, drug overdose death, and trauma for surviving communities.

Bruce E. Levine

Think Twice Before Shouting Your Virtues Online – Moral Grandstanding Is Unhealthy

In an era of bitter partisanship, political infighting and ostracization of those with unpopular views, Americans actually agree on one thing: 85% say political discourse has gotten worse over the last several years, according to Pew Research.

Joshua B. Grubbs

SCARS

Journey with us to Pelican Bay State Prison in California, to see how HUSTLE 2.0 is empowering incarcerated men through Entrepreneurship + Emotional Intelligence training.

14 min

Effortless Action: The Art of Spontaneity (2020)

Effortless Actionis the sequel to my documentary The Art of Effortless Living. This documentary explores the spontaneous nature of the Taoist wisdom of wu-wei as explained by the great sages Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu.

48 min

How To Simplify Your Life

What many of us long for more than anything else is a simpler life; we feel overwhelmed by our responsibilities, schedules, commitments and obligations. This is a film about how to create the simpler life we deserve.

7 min

Bernie's Damn Bill: Medicare for All | 3-Part Series Narrated by H. Jon Benjamin

From Roosevelts attempt to create a New Deal national health insurance program, to the Trump administrations repeal of the Obamacare individual mandatethe three-part Bernies Damn Bill video series reveals how decades of influence by greedy special interests have led to the...

13 min

The Remarkable Results of Microdosing | James Fadiman

In this entertaining talk from SAND18, James Fadiman, "America's wisest and most respected authority on psychedelics and their use," describes the citizen science of his recent investigations into the effects of microdosing, and shares some fascinating stories from the...

31 min

We’re Doing Dying All Wrong | Ken Hillman

As a world leader in managing the care of very sick people, Ken Hillmans breakthrough methods of treating critically ill patients have become the gold standard in Australia, the U.S. and Europe.

15 min

Recovering Your Sacredness | Jerry Tello

Our society is experiencing profound levels of stress and anxiety, a public health crisis thats triggering unresolved traumas in many people, resulting in widespread uneasiness, poor public health, social dysfunction, and alienation, as well as high levels of violence...

26 min

When You Only Pursue Pleasure, You End Up Pursuing Pain | Alan Watts

The goal of After Skoolhas always been to take the most empowering ideas and enhance them with art. Creating videos like this is my purpose on earth. When you find your purpose, nothing will stop you, because...the purpose is bigger than you.

12 min

Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan's new book "How To Change Your Mind" surveys the highly controversial terrain of the renaissance of both the science and popular usage of psychedelic substances. As one of our most brilliant and clear-eyed explorers of such topics as plant intelligence and how...

31 min

"Positive Vibes Only" Is Toxic: the Danger of New Age Spiritualism

Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them. ~ Bren Brown

Justice Bartlett

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Why is it that some children thrive while others do not? Is it a matter of genetics, IQ, socioeconomic background or education? Every child deserves to reach their full potential and the early years are the best possible start in life that could transform the world.

60 min

How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee

When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have great conversations and most of us dont converse very well.

13 min

How Faux-Feelings Are Sabotaging Your Communication Efforts

Getting in touch with our feelings and sharing "I-statements" is a known strategy for communicating nonviolently and bettering our chances of being heard.

Teri Lynn

4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Speaking Up (or Listening)

As a child, I was the shy kid who kept to herself. I rarely shared my inner world with others outside my close friendship circle, and even as an adult, my auto-default is still to hold my tongue.

Teri Lynn

Harnessing Pain and Burning It as Fuel for the Revolution

Many of us with radical politics likely formed them in response to histories of trauma and abuse sometimes in the form of discrete, identifiable traumatic events, sometimes in the form of cumulative interpersonal micro-traumas (e.g. rejections, invalidations, humiliation...

Prefigurology

Control is a Trap

At the root of many mental health problems is experiential avoidance. As touched upon in a previous entry, experiential avoidance is trying to avoid, suppress, or get rid of certain private experiences (i.e. emotions, physical sensations, thoughts, memories), regardless of...

Prefigurology

Humane: a New Agenda for Tech

This 44-min talk, which was delivered to 300 top technologists and activists, walks through a detailed diagnosis of the problemwith modern technologies and offers a path forward.

43 min

Wealth in the Age of We – Charles Eisenstein

What is wealthnot just spiritual wealth but material wealthas we move past the world-story of domination, competition, and control? How can we practice it now?

39 min

How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan

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

Treeline: A Story Written in Rings (2018)

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

The Dirty War On The NHS (2019)

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

3 Essential Strategies for Integrating Life Experiences

The tumbling dance of your thoughts, feelings, and sensations can polish the rough rocks of your life story into precious gemstones.

Teri Lynn

It's Not Medicare for All Unless It Has These 5 Qualities

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

India's Healing Forests: Come Home, Be Healed (2019)

All our knowledge comes from nature and yet nature is a source of many mysteries.

51 min

Radical Honesty – What If We All Told The Truth?

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

Of Course You've Messed Up

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

Home Is Wherever I’m With You — and Other Modern Calamities

Prologue: this essay is written in support of my new documentaryLove School. Oh, home, let me come home Home is whenever Im with you. ~Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes As I pul

Ian Mackenzie

Planet Local: A 7-Part Film Series about the Regenerative Food Movement

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 our...

Local Futures

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 2: Diverse Farming Systems

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 soil...

63 min

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 3: Local Food Webs, Exploring Systems of Distribution

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

Planet Local Short Film Series - Part 4: Local Food Processors AKA Making Delicious Food

These days, it can be difficult to find processed foods that arent made by mega-corporations; foods that arent full of added sugars, genetically modified corn, and chemicals we would rather not put in our bodies; foods that werent made in factories that harm the environment...

58 min

David Foster Wallace - The Dangers Of Internet & Media Addiction

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

Existentialism & The Internet - Why We’re Getting More Anxious

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

Controlling 5G: A Course in Obstacles

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 whats happening and whats within every households ability to control.

Katie Singer

How Culture Makes Us Feel Lost - Dr. Gabor Maté On Finding Your True Self Again

Dr. Gabor Mat 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

America's Reproductive Slaves

On Wednesday, the day it was announced that theU.S. birthrate fellfor the fourth straight year, signaling the lowest number of births in 32 years, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law the most draconiananti-abortion lawin the country. That the two developments came at th

Chris Hedges

Love School (trailer)

In the Oak-dotted countryside of Southern Portugal lies the Tamera Healing Biotope, one of Earths most radical social experiments in human futurism. Tamera began in the free love utopian movements of the 1960s and 70s, building upon the insight that the liberation of love is...

4 min

Wanting Fully Without Attachment

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

Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? | Jamie Wheal

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

'Masculinity is Essential to Society'

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

Is 5G Worth the Risks?

This article was originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog.

Iishana Artra, PhD

21 Examples of NVC Consciousness

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...

Bob Wentworth

Why These Plankton are Eating Plastic

Microfibers, used to make things like yoga pants, are the oceans tiniest problem.

5 min

Why Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Matters

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 Are Leading Strike Efforts — Where Are the Physicians?

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 Climate Solution Right Under Our Feet

The ideas behind regenerative farming are simple and ancient.

Michaela Haas

Why You Shouldn't Listen to Trump and the Super Rich When It Comes to Beauty

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

Things Straight Men Aren't Allowed to Do (According to Wiz Khalifa and Others)

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

Sexual Assault of Men Played for Laughs

Its 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: A Bold New Idea to Boost Wages

Robert Reich explains how expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit would boost wages for millions of working Americans.

5 min

Tenderness, Vulnerability, and Mourning in Response to the Legacy of Patriarchy

"So what can I do, as an individual?"

Miki Kashtan

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