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Intersections of Science and Spirituality

We Need a New Story for Our Relationship with the Earth, One that Goes Beyond Science and Religion

Scientific Pantheism: Frequently Asked Questions

The Realist Approach to The Afterlife: Living On Through Memory and Deeds

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

The Other Way of Knowing

The Present Need of the World (1926)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

All Is Self (2019)

The Five Blind Men (And the One Who Knows He Is Blind)

Metanoia: A New Vision of Nature (2008)

Dada Krsnasevananda on "The Role of Spirituality in Modern Society"

Spiritually Incorrect (2020)

My Spirituality as an Atheist

Embracing Spirituality With a Scientific Mind

Igniting the Life Force at Our Creative Core, Bringing Spirituality into Action

Co-Creating a Peaceful World Through Love-in-Action

Deep Reads - Get Cozy and Dig in

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

The End of the Corporation?

How to Fix the World

Revolution without Upheaval: A Manual Of Change

Films For Action University: a Map for Navigating the Transition From Empire to Earth Community

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Have You Heard of The Great Forgetting? It Happened 10,000 Years Ago & Completely Affects Your Life

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them

Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?

A Gentle Corrective for the Epidemic of Identity Politics Turning Us on Each Other and on Ourselves

The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: the Ultimate Guide to Love-Centered Activism

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

Can We Go to the Very Root of Violence and Be Free from It?

On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom

Wanted: Men Who Love

Seeing Wetiko: on Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

Deconstructing Workplace Hierarchies: On Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power

The Whiting of Euro-Americans: A Divide and Conquer Strategy

Understanding Patriarchy

To Attain Freedom, We Must Name The True Root of Our Problems

You Are Still Being Lied To: Columbus and the Myth of Human Progress

Positive Thinking in a Dark Age: A 12-Step Guide to Gracefully Responding to a Collapsing Dominant Culture

Humanity Is Being Held Hostage by an Economic and Cultural Death Cult

Our Way of Life Works AMAZING for Products, But It Works TERRIBLE for People

What Martin Luther King Jr. Can Teach Us about Nonviolence

The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names

Wondering What to Watch? Try These First

The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

Schooling the World (2010)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity (2016)

Living the Change: Inspiring Stories for a Sustainable Future (2018)

Money & Life (2013)

Down To Earth (2020)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Beware Of Images (2016)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices (2005)

The Bloom Series: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals

The Bloom Episode 1: Fundamental Frequencies

The Bloom Episode 2: Practicing The New World

The Bloom Episode 3: New Ways of the Sacred

The Bloom: A Journey Through Transformational Festivals (trailer)

Fantastic Fungi

Fantastic Fungi (2019)

Psychedelia: The History and Science of Mystical Experience (2021)

This Is What Magic Mushrooms Do To Your Brain

Magic Medicine: Can Psilocybin Cure Depression? (2018)

Psyched Out: Documentary on Psychedelics, Ayahuasca and Plant Medicine

Is the Psychedelic Renaissance Doomed? | Jamie Wheal

Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World

Forbidden Fruit: An Excerpt from the Feature Documentary Fantastic Fungi

Did Mushrooms Play a Role in the Evolution of Human Consciousness? - Paul Stamets

Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx

How Psychedelics Work: Fire the Conductor, Let the Orchestra Play | Michael Pollan

How Psychedelics Could Help Treat Anxiety, Addiction and Depression

Psychedelics and How to Change Your Mind | Michael Pollan

Mushrooms as Spiritual Teachers, A Brief History

Michael Pollan | Dissolving the Default Mode Network

How Trees Talk to Other Trees with the Help of Fungi

Can Psychedelics Inspire a Lasting Paradigm Shift? - Podcast with Charles Eisenstein

Scientists Find Magic Mushrooms Could Help Fight Fascism

Education

Schooling the World (2010)

Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015)

Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)

A Science Of Teaching (2015)

Class Dismissed: A Paper Tiger Documentary (2004)

The War on Kids (2009) (trailer)

Education For a Sustainable Future (2012)

School Circles: Every Voice Matters (2018)

Ike - Knowledge Is Everywhere (2014)

Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

Re-Learning Hope: a Story of Unitierra (2016)

Brain Matters: Putting The First Years First (2020)

Ripple Effect (2014)

Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

Being and Becoming (2014)

The Forbidden Education (2012)

Why Do These Kids Love School? (1999)

COMMON NOTIONS: Handbook Not Required (2016)

Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)

Inspiring Short Films

Today I Rise: This Beautiful Short Film Is Like a Love Poem For Your Heart and Soul

The Most Mind-Altering Photograph of All Time

The Most Astounding Fact about the Universe

Alan Watts: What If Money Was No Object?

We Are Built To Be Kind

The Empathic Civilization (Animated)

He Didn't Always Speak. But when He Did, He Gave the Greatest Speech of All Time.

My Revolution: A Blazing Declaration for Inner & Global Transformation

The Astronauts Who Saw This Were Never the Same Again

The Revolution Is Love! Our Movement is for the 100%

A New Story of the People | Charles Eisenstein

Who Are You? Watching This Breathtaking Video Could Be the Moment You Change Your Life

Trending Articles

The Top 100 Documentaries We Can Use to Change the World

Films For Action

Comic: If Bart Simpson and Chris Griffin Went to Couples Therapy

Panic Volkushka

The White Man in That Photo

Riccardo Gazzaniga

Bucky Fuller & his World Game: Intro to Saving Planets

Brainsturbator

The Top 10 Documentaries About the Israel / Palestine Conflict

Tim Hjersted

The Next American Revolution Has Begun And This Is What It Looks Like

Dan West

10 Quotes From an Oglala Lakota Chief That Will Make You Question Everything About Our Society

Wisdom Pills

The History and Philosophy of Aikido

Aikido Association of America

“This Is What Our Ruling Class Has Decided Will Be Normal” On Aaron Bushnell’s Action in Solidarity with Gaza

Crimethinc. Ex-Workers Collective

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

George Lakey

Caitlin Moran's Posthumous Advice for Her Daughter

Caitlin Moran

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Chris Agnos

Against ‘Sustainability’ and Other Plastic Words

Andrew Nikiforuk

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Russell Means

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings by Rob Gonsalves

Dovas

Cancel the Apocalypse: Here Are 41 Documentaries to Help Unlock the Good Ending

Films For Action

Why Men Are So Obsessed with Sex

Steve Bearman

Hipster: The Dead End of Western Civilization

Douglas Haddow

The Top 100 Documentaries Inspiring the Shift to a Sustainable Paradigm (2012 Edition)

Films For Action

Why Not Voting Is Such an Ineffective Form of Protest

Thomas G. Clark

Dumbing Us Down: The 7 Hidden Lessons of Compulsory Education

Meryn Callander

8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance

Bruce E. Levine

John Lennon's "Imagine," Made Into a Comic Strip

John Lennon. Art by Pablo Stanley

We Are The People of the Apocalypse

John F. Schumaker

Epic Documentaries

Human (2015)

Earthlings (2005)

The Corporation (2003)

Propaganda: How Western Citizens are Turned Into Compliant Slaves (2012)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

InterReflections: A Story about The Greatest Revolution of Our Time (2020)

The Century of the Self (2002)

Zeitgeist: Moving Forward (2011)

The Power of Nightmares (2004)

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007)

Counter-Intelligence: Shining a Light on Black Operations (2013)

HOME (2009)

This Is Neoliberalism (2020)

Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity

"Human Potential and the Path Back to Indigeneity" with Bill Pfeiffer

A New Story for Humanity: Change the Story, Change the World (2016)

Indigenous Thinking for Troubled Times, Tyson Yunkaporta

"Relearning" What We Have Forgotten

TAWAI: A Voice From the Forest (2017)

Dear White People. An Open Letter to White People on Becoming Indigenous

Wetheuncivilised, A Life Story (2017)

Reframing Discourse: the Emancipatory Power of Self-Told Stories

Lakota Wisdom: Why Native American Truths Can Heal the World

Indigenous Wisdom for Living Responsibly

Why Tribal Societies Work: An Introduction

Daniel Quinn: a Return to Tribalism?

A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning

Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

We Are All Indigenous

The Lessons Ancient People Have for Us

European Paganism and Christianization

The Circle of Courage – Native American Model of Education

The Children’s Fire: Our Culture’s Missing, Ancient, Core Value

The Tribal Identity - Paradigm for the Next Generation

The Core of the Indigenous Worldview

“Economics Is Not Just About Money; It's About Our Holistic Well-Being as a Planet”

Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure

Defend the Sacred Manifesto

Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense

Elder Explains the Origins of the First Nation Seven Teachings

Earth Whisperers - Papatuanuku (2009) (trailer)

The Bemidji Statement on Seventh Generation Guardianship

Bioregional Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Place in Which You Live?

The Other Way of Knowing

Mary Lyons Describes 'The We'

The Profound Importance of Rites of Passage: Mentoring the Future

Recovering Our Sense of Place, Reconnecting with Pachamama

Capitalism

Don’t Be Scared About the End of Capitalism—Be Excited to Build What Comes Next

The Invention of Capitalism: How a Self-Sufficient Peasantry was Whipped Into Industrial Wage Slaves

Five Dangerous Thoughts about Capitalism

The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand: Capitalism As a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Capitalism Is Just a Story - Rise Up and Create a New One

Dreaming Beyond Capitalism: a Culture Without Fear

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

The Real Global Threat to 21st Century Freedom Is Authoritarian Capitalism Not Democratic Socialism

Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism”

Capitalism Is The Crisis (2011)

Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

Why Advocates of Freed Markets Should Embrace "Anti-Capitalism"

In a Freed Market, Who Will Stop Markets from Running Riot and Doing Crazy Things? We Will.

The Limits of Capitalism

Judge a System by the Health of Its Children

Insane Trade!

The One-Choice Election

The Economics of Happiness (Abridged Version)

Capitalism and Communism - Two Economic Systems With the Same Goal

Watch These First

The Corporation (2003)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Evolution of Ecological Consciousness | Andrew Faust (2013)

A Quest For Meaning (2017)

Schooling the World (2010)

Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)

Money & Life (2013)

Plutocracy: Political Repression In The U.S.A. (2019)

Fall and Winter (2013)

Tomorrow: All Over the Globe, Solutions Already Exist (US-Only) (2015)

Positive Alternatives to Business as Usual

Not Business As Usual (2014)

Real Value (2013)

The Economics of Happiness (2011)

The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy (2018)

Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time (2015)

Money & Life (2013)

Waste = Food (2007)

Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)

Can We Do It Ourselves? (2015)

Together: How Cooperatives Show Resilience to the Crisis (2012)

Prout: Economic Democracy in Practice (2004)

Creating Prosperous Communities: Examples of Small-Scale Cooperatives in Maleny (2002)

A Passion For Sustainability (2008)

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Language Keepers: The Struggle for Indigenous Language Survival in California (2019)

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Re-Learning the Land: a Story of Red Crow College (2015)

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Free to Learn: A Radical Experiment in Education (2006)

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Aghet: A Genocide (2010)

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For The Next 7 Generations (2009)

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Origins (2014)

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5 Broken Cameras (2011)

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Broken by Battle (2013)

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New Member Submissions

Gaza Genocide: A Socialist Perspective (2024)

Empire Managers Explain Why This New Protest Movement Scares Them

No Refuge: Cape Cod's Coastal Crisis (2024)

Psychedelic Psilocybin Magic Truffle Veteran Retreat (2022)

Talk For Life: English as an Additional Language (2020)

Living Without: How Much is Enough?

Pinevale High - Separate, Unequal,....Undeterred.

Smartphones vs. Smart Kids: Heading Off Disaster in Teen Mental Health | Jonathan Haidt

Tomorrow (with Epilogue) (2022)

Resilience: What Makes the Soul Strong (2024)

Close-Up of Death Culture: 1,000 in Entertainment Biz Proclaim Support for Gaza Slaughter

Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump (2020) (trailer)

How "Big Picture Activism" Can Change the World

The Rules of the Game Must Change | Yanis Varoufakis

The Hungry Ghost Inside Us: What Really Causes Addiction | Dr. Gabor Mate

The Illusion of Progress | Charles Eisenstein

How Advertising Creates Cultural Violence | Peter Joseph

How Humans Regenerate Earth | Dr. Lyla June

Urban Food Forest in a Public Park! – The City Food Commons

I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine

Genetics Explained Who Are the Blessed Ones!

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Us Government Destroy Family

Why Julian Assange Should Be Freed | John Mearsheimer

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