Nature, Science & Ecology

The Pacific Northwest coast is home to one of the most diverse displays of intertidal marine life in the world.

Few things scare us more than inner emptiness. The presumed emptiness of coma or dementia scares us so much that we even sign living wills to avoid these states. Yet, as Zen masters have long known, inner emptiness can also be productive and useful. We can reach this state through meditation, concentration, music, or even during sex.

Reveals how our survival depends on embracing complexity consciousness and relating to nature and all life as sacred

Rejects the survival of the fittest narrative in favor of sacred symbiosis, creative cooperation, interdependence and complex thinking

While in graduate school in the early 1990s, Chris Niebauer noticed striking parallels between the latest discoveries in psychology and neuroscience and the teachings of Buddhism, Taoism, and other schools of Eastern thought. At the time, his findings were dismissed by his academic supervisor as "pure coincidence, nothing more."