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 (below).
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
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
The archaeologist Paul MacKendrick wrote a book about ancient Italy called The Mute Stones Speak. But for First Americans in California, stones aren’t mute; they
Different cultures develop fascinatingly diverse ideas about light. Some of the makers of stained glass in medieval European cathedrals followed the third-century CE Egyptian-Greek philosopher
After exploring the Ohlone and Miwok worlds on Mt. Diablo’s lower slopes, I ventured to its summit. A lot of Ohlone and Miwok Indians thought
I hiked to Mt. Diablo’s summit two weeks ago, and it was one of the most spiritual hikes I’ve ever done in the SF Bay
He’s young and chill, but he probably knows things about his culture’s heritage that AI systems don’t. The psychologist Jerome Bruner, in The Culture of
A house is more than a building in many Native American societies. For example, the seemingly simple Plains Indian tipi sometimes expressed its residents’ ideas