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Most conversations about authoritarianism focus on political authoritarianism, which is becoming more familiar in societies today. But there are many kinds of authoritarianism. As you know, authoritarianism is about control by sanctioned authorities who maintain hierarchy through demand and coercion of obedience through imposed violence and ongoing threats of punishment. Forms of authoritarianism actually characterizes […]

Do you think authoritarianism is new to the USA? Hardly. The society is imbued with authoritarianism. Authoritarianism here refers to external idealistic power imposed on a living being. It starts in fetalhood when the expectant mother is stressed from little support and welcoming by the community. This impairs fetal brain development. (For some, we can […]

Eidelson and Eidelson some years ago pointed out five dangerous ideas that lead to conflict between groups. Notice how authoritarian discourse and today’s social media promote these across the world: Vulnerability: We feel that what we value is threatened (e.g., identity, country). Helplessness: We try to avoid feelings of helplessness and try to control what […]

A skittish fish can transmit misinformation to a group of fish and threaten their survival by moving them away from food sources. Evolution promoted defenses against misinformation with variations in perceptual sensitivity. Fish in small groups are more responsive to a reactive colleague and will eventually die out if they keep missing eating. In large […]

  Dear Kindred, The ongoing, intensifying cultural debate – or investor-driven hype – around AI seems engineered to skip over the obvious, central question surrounding AI’s future profit-driven potential and questionable impact on the human family. Is AI intelligence or intellectual tool? What is the difference between intelligence and intellect? In Joseph Chilton Pearce’s forty-plus […]

How does Riane Eisler’s partnership model of leadership transform our understanding of politics, economics, and social change in an age of trauma and technological upheaval?

Helena Norberg-Hodge’s 80th birthday is an occasion to honor a lifetime – 50 years –  of devotion to living, local, life-centered cultures—the very ground that Kindred World and the Evolved Nest are working to protect and restore in families and communities today. Her work reminds us that healthy humans emerge from healthy cultures, and healthy […]

Pre-order your Gratitude Deck. Release date March 10, 2026 From Indigenous author, scholar, and activist Four Arrows (Wahinkpe Topa)—cultivate your own earth-based gratitude practice with this 52-card oracle deck. For readers of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Rae Diamond, Jessica Hernandez, and Sherri Mitchell All Our Relations, a 52-card oracle deck, guides readers through a nature-based gratitude […]

In this episode of This Is How We Care, Emily Race-Newmark sits down with developmental psychologist and author Dr. Darcia Narvaez to explore what children—and humanity—truly need to thrive. Drawing from neuroscience, anthropology, Indigenous wisdom, and decades of research, Dr. Narvaez introduces the concept of the Evolved Nest: the caregiving system humans evolved with for […]

My inbox exploded last month. I was tucked away in the mountains, deep in book-writing mode. Snow-dusted peaks outside my window. Fall leaves drifting down. The kind of quiet I’d been craving to finally write the chapters that have been living in my bones for years. Chapters about the magic of motherhood. The origins of […]