1968: a Missed Chance for Socialism

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

There Is More Than One Kind Of Intelligence - George Monbiot

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

Displacement Battles on Two Continents Show How We Can Reshape the Politics of Housing

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

The Role of Shame in Shaping and Undermining Activist Communities

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

After #MeToo: How To Process The Pain And Shame That Divides Women And Men

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

What Is The Cost For Those of Us Not Born into Community?

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

The Secrets of a Privileged Childhood

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 – Native American Model of Education

The Circle of Courage is based in four universal growth needs of all children: belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity.

Reclaiming Youth At Risk

School Shootings: Who to Listen to Instead of Mainstream Shrinks

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

Toward a Liberation Psychology

The following is an excerpt from Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (Chelsea Green, 2011) by Bruce E. Levine. In this book, Levine describes how American institutions and culture have created a passive and defeated...

Bruce E. Levine

Children Full of Life (2003)

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

Another Reason Young Americans Don’t Revolt Against Being Screwed

“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

Dollar General Is Putting Local Grocery Stores Out Of Business

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

Why I Stopped Seeking My Purpose

And why I think you should also do it

Gustavo Tanaka

Tough Talk: Season 1, A Series About Men's Mental Health

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

Is It Possible to Love All Humanity?

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

Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory

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

Why You Keep Using Facebook, Even if You Hate It

The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems.

5 min

This Concrete Dome Holds A Leaking Toxic Timebomb (2017)

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

The New Human Rights Movement - Peter Joseph

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

Did Mushrooms Play a Role in the Evolution of Human Consciousness? - Paul Stamets

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

The Ultimate Romance Begins From the Love We Show Our Selves

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

Moving On From #Metoo | Louise Mazanti PhD

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

Learn to Be Soft and You Will Be Strong

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

No, You Can't ‘Be the Change’ Alone

Positive thinking may be useless or even damaging, but negative thinking is unlikely to change the world for the better.

Alessandra Pigni

'Strong Men?' Masculinity in the Modern World

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

Holding Space for Outrage

Deepening Relationships with Presence and Acceptance

Heather Plett

Why Positive Thinking Isn't Neoliberal

By discouraging the use of powerful self-healing and self-development tools we may weaken those who are already disempowered.

Sonja Avlijaš

Shootings Are the Symptoms of an American Disease

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

Is Toxic Masculinity a Mask for Anxiety?

What is it that makes so many boys grow up to believe that sex is theirs for the taking?

Ruth C. White Ph.D.

Stress: It's Not in Your Head, It's in Your Nervous System

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

Hold Your Tongue and Offer Your Heart Instead

When my mom was dying of cancer, I occasionally got messages from well-meaning people who wanted to offer what they thought was valuable information about how mom could cure her cancer. Eat raw food, take more vitamin C, stop drinking milk – all of those suggestions and more...

Heather Plett

Shame, Guilt & the Roots of Violence

During the past 35 years I have used prisons and prison mental hospitals as "laboratories" in which to investigate the causes and prevention of the various forms of violence and the relationships between these forms and to what I will call (with a nod to William James) "the...

James Gilligan

Sacrifice Zone: The Story of a Real Australian Gas Crisis (2018)

The backyard of New South Wales is facing its biggest threat yet – invasive gasfields. Betrayal by governments has meant protectors are fighting to save the things they love. The Pilliga, Great Artesian Basin, Liverpool Plains – all are at risk.

100 min

Prof. Robert Sapolsky - The Neuroscience Behind Behavior

Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. Recorded: May 2017

56 min

I Love Being a Woman - How to Live Our Erotic Truth

Around the world, women are searching for a feminine power they can affirm with self-confidence. This search is particularly delicate in sexuality, given the long history of violence and abuse continuing to this day. Yet, here’s exactly where the true revolution needs to take...

Sabine Lichtenfels

Radical Kindness Is Liberating: A Guide to Engaging with Wisdom Online

A few years ago, Maria Popova wrote an article on how to criticize with kindness, based on the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett.

Tim Hjersted

The Neurobiology of Love and Relationships

How does the Brain Respond to Love?Love has an intoxicating effect on us and understanding this mysterious effect from a scientific perspective may help us navigate relationships with a little more clarity. Meditation, self-awareness and good communication skills are...

Jacob Devaney

It Will Take a Political Revolution to Cure the Epidemic of Depression

What causes depression and anxiety? I have been a practicing psychologist and psychoanalyst for almost 40 years and have seen hundreds of patients suffering from both. In my experience, some factors are obvious. People who suffer from depression and anxiety have experienced...

Michael Bader

What Are the Six Basic Human Needs?

Are your emotional and psychological needs being fulfilled?

Chip Richards

A New Story of Masculinity - Rafia Morgan and Alexander Bard

So I took my camera to the Nordic Men's Gathering... to capture the birth of what is being called Men's Movement 2.0. This is a brilliant discussion between two people I am proud to call friends and mentors - Rafia Morgan and Alexander Bard. -

10 min

Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places: The Heart and Science of Relationship Success

This is the introduction to Eric Bower's book, Meet Me In Hard-to-Love Places. To build successful relationships, it is essential to address the pain and emotional wounds that you carry from past relationships, particularly from your childhood relationships with

Eric Bowers

What the Best Science Really Says about Depression

For almost the past 100 years, mental health professionals have told us that that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, there's a much more realistic theory that depression happens due to an imbalance happening outside of your cranium. New York...

6 min

The Boy Crisis: A Sobering look at the State of our Boys - Warren Farrell Ph.D.

What is causing a worldwide Boy Crisis and how do we resolve it. A sobering look at the current state of Boys in our society and what we must understand before we can help them.

13 min

My Son Was a Columbine Shooter. This is My Story.

Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and 1 teacher. She's spent years excavating every detail of her family life, trying to understand what she could have done to prevent...

16 min

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

“Can you imagine? Can you imagine our society if we placed the children’s fire at the center of all institutions of power in our government, in our corporations, in our religions, in all institutions of power, if we rekindled the children’s fire and the chiefs of those...

14 min

The Children's Wellbeing Manifesto: A 15-Point Plan for Nurturing Children and Communities

Policy initiatives promoting healthy emotional development in children

Anne Manne, Robin Grille, Kali Wendorf

Maniphesto: A Manifest for a New Perspective on Gender

It’s time to bridge the polarities and embrace the paradoxes around gender.

Maniphesto

Ultimate Guide to Getting Out of Depression

Depression is the modern plague, there is no question to that. I have been experienced it along with anxiety for 4,5 years. Worst fucking 50 months of my life. Best fucking 50 months of my life. If you are also struggling with it, don’t worry and relax, just read. This is...

Kemal Tenebris

Healing the Divine Masculine

There’s been much talk and publicity recently over the plight of women subjected to all kinds of domineering, humiliating and abusive behaviour from men. This situation needs healing for sure, for both women and men, and to do this we need to inquire deep within the problem.

Richard West

Parents Need to Start Talking to Their Tweens About the Risks of Porn

Editor’s note: This article includes references to graphic sexual content that may be inappropriate for some readers.

Gail Dines

Meet the "Period Man" of Pune, India

"My job is to talk about periods every day."

2 min

Crush Your Fear of Finding Out

Thousands of people delay going to their GP because they have a Fear Of Finding Out (FOFO). FOFO makes up a third of conscious reasons why people delay visiting their doctor. Getting symptoms checked out early can save lives. Don't let FOFO stand in the way of your health.

2 min

Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution (trailer)

Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution is a documentary about coming of age in today’s young adult hookup culture. Following the journey of college students on Spring Break, the film provides shocking insight into attitudes and behaviors regarding sex, the normalization of...

3 min

How To Choose A Partner Wisely

We’re given very little guidance on how to choose our partners and tend to leave it to that mysterious force we know as ‘instinct’. However, it truly pays to be a little more rational in this area and work out how our instincts operate and why they push us towards some people...

6 min

Why We Pick Difficult Partners

In theory, we're nowadays allowed to get together with pretty much anyone we like. And yet, at a psychological level, we aren't free to love just any suitable person. We have a type - and strangely and awkwardly, these types are often not those who stand a chance of making us...

6 min

Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein

The Third Wave and Charles Eisenstein

There Is No Environment: The Earth Is Our Extended Body

We are living in a time of turmoil for the Earth. Species extinction, deforestation, climate change, rising sea levels, and many other problems face the planet we call home.

Dr. Barry Taylor

Our Relationships Keep Us Alive: Let's Prioritize Healthy Movement Dynamics

This story is the second in Truthout's "Visions of 2018" series, in which activist leaders answer the question: "What would you like to see created, built, imagined or begun this year?" Each piece will focus on a bold idea for transformation, to give us fuel as the year moves...

Ejeris Dixon

A User's Guide for Evolutionary Well-Being

The sacred naturalist’s guide to well-being

Alice Andrews

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