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Human sexuality is a complicated biological affair. There are both organizational and activational aspects that occur in utero and at puberty that affect post-puberty sexuality. Brain circuits and body appearance are influenced separately. As a result, the brain may be oriented one way but the body appear as the other gender. Brain circuits and body […]

With your Giving Tuesday 2023 donation, you will receive our thanks and a collection of Darcia Narvaez's essays, Moving Toward Kinship Worldview & Indigenous Wisdom

I am a Taoist from the Bronx. This, I believe, is what makes me well suited to portray why and how the Crone does not dwell in despair, but rather exults in wisdom. I often come frighteningly close to falling off the despair cliff. Having experienced rape, incest, family betrayal, poverty, political torture, physical violence […]

In this presentation, Darcia describes how our evolved wellness-informed pathway follows the cycle of connected cooperative companionship. This pathway shifted over time to the trauma-inducing pathway that dominates the planet and pressed us into a cycle of destructive competitive detachment. She shows how we can return to wellness by following our species' evolved nest. She […]

This post is a follow-up to Suzanne Zeedyk’s video presentation on ACES and Attachment Awareness in Scotland to the Kindred Fellowship Program in June 2022 and Kindred’s feature with her in 2020. A summary of the same themes and insights from her KFP video presentation appear in a paper Suzanne disseminated to the public this […]

When the Evolved Nest is provisioned to children and to adults, our full humanity is developed and expressed. Through the Evolved Nest we develop the Kinship Worldview. Reimagining Humanity gives us a taste of the kind of lifeways that nestedness promotes.   In this discussion, Darcia Narvaez and Lisa Reagan discussion how the short film […]

Please Don’t Cut the Baby! A Nurse’s Memoir, by Marilyn Fayre Milos, will be available for purchase on February 20, 2024. Pre-order your copy now.   Foreword by Dean Edell, MD True pioneers are an unusual lot. They decide to give their lives to a cause and follow through. Many of us dream about changing our world […]

There is a common misunderstanding about the teaching of eastern spiritual traditions in modern times. Some people believe enlightenment is a state of being elevated or even detached from our basic instinctual nature. I believe a more accurate statement is that enlightenment is an ongoing process of integration between our spiritual essence and basic instincts.

We’ve been holding monthly calls to discuss Breaking the Cycle, the Evolved Nest, and Reimagining Humanity – three short films by the Evolved Nest Initiative – for the past two years. This is the first time we’ve decided to share our meeting discussion recording. Check out the front page of Kindred Media to find the […]

We have a poverty of imagination about what makes us wealthy. – Aisha Nyandoro For people living in poverty, a guaranteed income can mean finally having the space to dream of a comfortable life. Sharing the stories of single moms who participated in a first-of-its-kind program that offered them $1,000 per month with no strings […]