"When you stop needing others to be different, they change. When you stop needing yourself to be better, you grow. This is the paradox of the spiritual path: We arrive by stopping, not by striving." www.shambhala.com/at-peace-fil...

At Peace, Filled with Joy

​​What if your deepest struggles were the very ground from which authentic joy could grow? Through 57 carefully-selected verses, Zen master Cuong Lu draws on the ancient wisdom of the Dhammapada to gi...

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Ocean Memory A talk by Melody Jue hosted by the Long Now Foundation longnow.org/talks/02026-...

Melody Jue: Ocean Memory

Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas.

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Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature by Ryan Topper This book argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis. sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...

Animist Poetics

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The International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL) was founded in 2025 to promote the study, practice, and public dissemination of philosophy understood not merely as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of living and transforming oneself. www.ispwl.com

Biosphere an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on ecosystems published quarterly online www.mdpi.com/journal/bios...

A comprehensive study of D. T. Suzuki's Zen philosophy and philosophical psychology in relation to his Buddhist understanding of the "cosmic Unconscious." sunypress.edu/Books/D/D.-T...

D. T. Suzuki on the Unconscious in Zen Art, Meditation, and Enlightenment

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This is an incredibly comprehensive bibliography of research on integral ecology iebibliography.org

In States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization, Mohamed Amer Meziane shows how, in a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself. www.versobooks.com/products/305...

The States of the Earth

While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand wi...

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Lived Experience for Everyone, a podcast created and hosted by Joseph Rivera and Helena Connolly. Talking about how academic studies in theology, philosophy, religion, contemplative practice, poetry or literature can enrich your life. livedexperiencepodcast.podbean.com

“Since our mind is not proportionate to the divine substance, God remains beyond our intellect and so is unknown to us. Hence the supreme knowledge which we have of God is to know that we do not know God, insofar as we know that what God is surpasses all that we can understand.” — Thomas Aquinas

"truth sinks in like rain into very hard earth. The rain is very gentle, and we soften up slowly at our own speed. But when that happens, something has fundamentally changed in us. That hard earth has softened. It doesn’t seem to happen by trying to get it or capture it. It happens by letting go"

Applied Mysticism: Studies of Meditation and Psychedelics in Secular Contexts by Richard H. Jones sunypress.edu/Books/A/Appl...

Applied Mysticism

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Reflections on Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press) www.resilience.org/stories/2025...

What Counts as American Religion?

Whether or not one agrees with Tweed’s definition of religion, his choice to begin his story in ancient Texas toward the end of the last Ice Age in North America, rather than New England or Jamestown ...

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"The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach" by Andre van der Braak www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach

PDF | On May 24, 2025, André van der Braak published The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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y’all remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset? i think about that a *lot.*

Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art. Towards Theory and Practice An open access volume edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki www.peterlang.com/document/128...

Peter Lang Verlag - Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art

Through the burgeoning fields of Posthumanities and Environmental Humanities, this edition examines the changing conception of human subjectivity, ...

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"To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time." - Hannah Arendt

The new Ecozoic Reader is live—guest-edited by Sam King & Sam Mickey with reflections from leaders across religion & ecology. A look back at our roots, and forward to what’s next. Read here → bit.ly/ecozoicreader cc: @sammickey.bsky.social

A Fire Runs through All Things: Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis www.shambhala.com/a-fire-runs-...

A Fire Runs through All Things

PubWest 2023 Book Design Award (Silver)At a time of climate emergency, Zen koans show us how crisis itself can reveal the regenerative openness of life, mind, and being.Zen koans are a tradition of ho...

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In memoriam, Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 - July 19, 2025) For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and “awake activist” Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation. tricycle.org/article/reme...

Ecodharma Leader Joanna Macy Has Died

For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and "awake activist" Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation.

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The latest Spotlights episode is live: Natalia Schwien Scott on healing, kinship, and the sacred threads between science and spirit. Herbalist. Wildlife rehab apprentice. Harvard PhD candidate. Hosted by @sammickey.bsky.social 🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=eupgQhsZDdA #ReligionAndEcology #Fore

CETI: a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales. www.projectceti.org

Project CETI •-- Home

CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.

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A beautiful summer day for the San Francisco Bay.

Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia | UC Davis www.ucdavis.edu/news/researc...

Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia

University of California, Davis, researchers have developed a new, neuroplasticity-promoting drug closely related to LSD that harnesses the psychedelic’s therapeutic power with reduced hallucinogenic ...

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I’m Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there’s a pair of us! Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one’s name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! - Emily Dickinson

"Philosophizing presses on reflectively to the point where thinking becomes the experience of reality itself. … I must think constantly, though without attaining reality in such thinking alone. By way of a provisional, preparatory thinking I experience something more than thought." - Karl Jaspers

"The Spirit breaks down barriers and tears down the walls of indifference and hatred...." - Pope Leo XIV Homily for Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025 www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

This will be a wonderful event, with a focus on the complex relationships between Indigenous traditions and Christianity, honoring the wisdom of the Haudensosaunee and the legacy of Pope Francis.

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If you're in the New York area, check out "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, The Jesuits, and Laudato si: Defending Mother Earth," Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm Free and Open to the Public! Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan

If you're in the New York area, check out "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, The Jesuits, and Laudato si: Defending Mother Earth," Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm Free and Open to the Public! Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan

Laughing on the Brink of Humanity: An Exercise in Epihumanism by Jan Miernowski Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science, this book is appropriate to our posthuman age. sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laug...

Laughing on the Brink of Humanity

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