Native Americans were immersed in their natural environments to an extent that can be hard for most Californian suburbanites to fully appreciate. More than 500
Ancient Greeks built temples and public stoas that emphasized abstract proportions and linear relationships, like this reconstruction of the stoa of Attalus in Athens.
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia intensely focused on maintaining the sanctity of the state’s territory and displaying it in spectacular temples and palaces. This focus on
Nature wasn’t as kind to the area where early Mesopotamians built their first cities and great temples as it was to ancient Egypt. Deserts on
We’ll explore some ways to mix looking At, With, and Beyond so that your perspective will always expand without a final stopping point so that
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