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 like something […]
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 […]