Resources

Moral Landscapes (Psychology Today blog)

• Self Actualization: Individualistic or Holistic Connection?
  How does Maslow’s description and prescription of self-actualization compare with the approach of a sustainable ancestral culture?
• Does Morality Require Changing Yourself or the World?
  Morality is often considered a matter of individual conscience. Neuroscience and sociology suggest otherwise. Community structures shape the development of morality.
• Culture Transformation: Learning How You Are Privileged
  When our acting from privilege is called out, it insults our self-image of goodness. Who, me?
• Religion’s Roots: Self-Transform to Increase Compassion
  The lifelong process of self-development into greater holiness used to be part of every major religion. We can all apply the practices to increase our goodness.
• What's it Like to Experience the Transrational Borderland?
  Do you feel grief for the natural world?
• Is Religion About Belief or Behavior?
  The major religions started as practices, focused on how one should treat others. Have some people slipped away from the central aims of their religion?
• In the Borderland of Consciousness
  Drawing on beliefs from the Navajo nation and Jungian psychology, an explanation of "Borderland" consciousness is provided.
• Nature Heals, Restores, and Comforts
  New research is showing the healing power of green light.
• Approaching the Borderland of Transformation
  How did we get to the dire ecological and psychic conditions we are in? Jerome Bernstein’s landmark work weighs in.
• Analyses of Inaction Toward the Ecological Crisis
  The bad news on global warming keeps piling up. Why isn’t everyone taking action?
• We Are in a Climate Emergency—How Can Psychology Help?
  A stranglehold of ideas are keeping us from climate action. Can psychology help us?