The anthropologist David Graeber said that culture is a way of telling off your neighbor. People often use culture to distinguish themselves from other societies.
The Canadian scholar and founder of The Age of Culture Project D. Paul Schafer has written several books about transforming from the age in which
The Oglala Lakota holy man Black Elk recounted a vision he had at the age of nine, when he suddenly became ill. Lying down in
It was one of the most reckless things I’ve ever done overseas. I had read that Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has one of the world’s best
Flying over the Holy Land is dramatic, even at 35,000 feet. You see long stretches of tan with no other colors. No vegetation or clouds,
Looking At/With/Beyond combines three ways to perceive and think about the world. The first is looking At. This is conventional knowledge. You look At something
The psychologist Martin Seligman has updated research on the positive psychology that Abraham Maslow pioneered. In a book called Flourish, he said that he prefers
A common definition of emotion according to Western Psychology is: A psychological system that appraises internal or external, context-related causes in terms of their significance
My attraction to northern Thailand strengthened when I visited minority groups in the hills. Many non-Thai minorities live in northern Thailand, and they offer a