How to Continuously Expand Your Perspective
May 3, 2026
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
Dangers of Cultural Studies and How to Overcome Them
April 22, 2026
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.
Expanding Our Focus from Economic Wealth to Cultural Wealth
April 16, 2026
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
Seeing Far or Seeing Near; Different Cultures’ Orientations
March 26, 2026
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
From Mechanics to Magic; Looking At/With/Beyond to Transform Your View of the World
February 25, 2026
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
More Ways to Have Peak Experiences by Looking At/With/Beyond
February 15, 2026
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
Revolutionizing Perspective by Expanding from Looking At to Looking At/With/Beyond
January 10, 2026
During the Axial Age, in the mid-first millennium BCE, some of humanity’s most influential teachers lived, mental horizons in the West, the Middle East, India,
Today’s Potential for a New Axial Age
January 4, 2026
Some historians of thought have called it humanity’s most influential period. The philosopher Carl Jaspers called the time between 800 BCE and 300 BCE the
From Truth to Expansion; Updating Basic Ideas
November 29, 2025
A recent article here began to explore ways that ideas of truth can vary in different cultures. A common theme I’ve found has been constancy.
Truth and Culture; Updating Ideas of Truth
September 1, 2025
What is truth? A common theme in different definitions of it has been constancy. For example the Middle English (spoken from about 1150 to around