A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness
Michael Pollan takes readers to the most intimate frontier in science: the mystery of our own awareness. Drawing on neuroscience, philosophy, literature, Indigenous epistemology, and his own experiences with meditation and psychedelics, Pollan asks the question that has eluded centuries of inquiry — what exactly is consciousness, who has it, and why does anything feel […]
Flow Genome Project
Flow Research Collective brings together award-winning academics, artists, special operations commanders, professional athletes, Fortune 500 business leaders, and experts dedicated to peak performance, building world-class training programs on peak performance, optimal psychology, and leadership. The organization charges a premium for world-class trainings while open sourcing content for free, helping people make better sense of their […]
Becoming Gaia
Becoming Gaia: On the Threshold of Planetary Initiation by Sean Kelly addresses our living in end times—climate chaos, accelerating mass extinction, and signs of civilizational collapse drawing the Earth community into a planetary near-death experience. Yet these end times also mark the threshold of a new planetary identity in the making. Drawing on scholarship from […]
Ed Yong
Ed Yong is a Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist and staff writer at The Atlantic, where his work has fundamentally shaped public understanding of biology, ecology, and the hidden complexity of life. Born in Malaysia and raised in Britain, Yong has spent his career finding the stories inside science that change how people see themselves and […]
I Contain Multitudes
Ed Yong’s 2016 New York Times bestseller arrived at a pivotal moment in biology, introducing a general audience to one of the most profound scientific shifts since Darwin: the discovery that every animal—including every human—is not an individual at all, but a living ecosystem. The trillions of microbes that inhabit us sculpt our organs, educate […]
An Immense World
Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Ed Yong opens a door most of us never knew existed. His 2022 book introduces the concept of the “Umwelt”—the unique sensory bubble each animal inhabits—and then takes us on a journey through dozens of them: the magnetic field a sea turtle navigates by, the electrical pulses fish use to communicate, […]
Brett KenCairn
Brett KenCairn is the Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team, where he coordinates the city’s nature-based solutions work. Brett has worked across the western U.S. in community-based initiatives in rural, Native American, and other marginalized communities, and is […]
Becoming Earth
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, reveals life’s profound influence on our planet through acclaimed science writing that transports readers to extraordinary places—a former gold mine nearly one mile underground, an experimental nature reserve in remote Siberia, an observatory on a dizzyingly tall […]
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad in the pages […]
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Williams has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She has testified before Congress […]
Ferris Jabr
Ferris Jabr is the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Earth and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Becoming Earth won the Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Oregon Book Award, with reviewers describing it as an “electrifying” and […]
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), specializing in integral ecology, environmental humanities, religion and ecology, integral theories and philosophies, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, archetypal cosmology, Romanticism and German Idealism. Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in […]
From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing
From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald S. Miller emerged from Reb Zalman’s personal mission to confront his fears about death and infirmity. Through a vision quest, study with Sufi masters, Buddhist teachers, and Native-American shamans, he found a way to turn aging into the most […]
The Responsibility Process
The Responsibility Process is a behavioral science framework and the world’s first proven how-to approach for understanding, teaching, and taking personal responsibility. The framework helps people apply their innate leadership ability to face and overcome any challenge by operating in freedom, power, and choice—and encouraging those they lead to do likewise. The organization’s purpose is […]
The Four Agreements
The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz, published in 1997, reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the book offers a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. The four […]
Maps to Ecstasy
Maps to Ecstasy by Gabrielle Roth expands on the themes that have guided her work—ways of transforming daily life into sacred art. Roth’s teaching in movement has been described as a marriage of art and healing. Each chapter initiates readers into one of the five sacred powers necessary for survival and reveals the five life […]