Animist Poetics: Ancestral Trauma and Regeneration in African Literature
by Ryan Topper
This book argues that African literature conceptualizes trauma and regeneration as a more-than-human process, offering an animist revision of psychoanalysis. sunypress.edu/Books/A/Anim...
The International Society for Philosophy as a Way of Life (ISPWL) was founded in 2025 to promote the study, practice, and public dissemination of philosophy understood not merely as a theoretical discipline, but as a way of living and transforming oneself.
www.ispwl.com
Biosphere
an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on ecosystems published quarterly online
www.mdpi.com/journal/bios...
A comprehensive study of D. T. Suzuki's Zen philosophy and philosophical psychology in relation to his Buddhist understanding of the "cosmic Unconscious."
sunypress.edu/Books/D/D.-T...
This is an incredibly comprehensive bibliography of research on integral ecology
iebibliography.org
In States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization, Mohamed Amer Meziane shows how, in a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself. www.versobooks.com/products/305...
Lived Experience for Everyone, a podcast created and hosted by Joseph Rivera and Helena Connolly.
Talking about how academic studies in theology, philosophy, religion, contemplative practice, poetry or literature can enrich your life.
livedexperiencepodcast.podbean.com
“Since our mind is not proportionate to the divine substance, God remains beyond our intellect and so is unknown to us. Hence the supreme knowledge which we have of God is to know that we do not know God, insofar as we know that what God is surpasses all that we can understand.”
— Thomas Aquinas
"truth sinks in like rain into very hard earth. The rain is very gentle, and we soften up slowly at our own speed. But when that happens, something has fundamentally changed in us. That hard earth has softened. It doesn’t seem to happen by trying to get it or capture it. It happens by letting go"
Applied Mysticism: Studies of Meditation and Psychedelics in Secular Contexts
by Richard H. Jones
sunypress.edu/Books/A/Appl...
Reflections on Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press)
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
"The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach"
by Andre van der Braak
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
y’all remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset?
i think about that a *lot.*
Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art. Towards Theory and Practice
An open access volume edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
www.peterlang.com/document/128...
"To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time."
- Hannah Arendt
The new Ecozoic Reader is live—guest-edited by Sam King & Sam Mickey with reflections from leaders across religion & ecology.
A look back at our roots, and forward to what’s next.
Read here → bit.ly/ecozoicreader
cc: @sammickey.bsky.social
A Fire Runs through All Things: Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis
www.shambhala.com/a-fire-runs-...
In memoriam, Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 - July 19, 2025)
For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and “awake activist” Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation.
tricycle.org/article/reme...
The latest Spotlights episode is live:
Natalia Schwien Scott on healing, kinship, and the sacred threads between science and spirit.
Herbalist. Wildlife rehab apprentice. Harvard PhD candidate.
Hosted by @sammickey.bsky.social
🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=eupgQhsZDdA
#ReligionAndEcology #Fore
CETI: a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.
www.projectceti.org
A beautiful summer day for the San Francisco Bay.
Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia | UC Davis
www.ucdavis.edu/news/researc...
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
- Emily Dickinson
"philosophy cannot arise from scientific ways of thinking and scientific knowledge alone. Philosophy demands a different thinking, a thinking that, knowing, reminds me, awakens me, brings me to myself, transforms me"
- Karl Jaspers
Philosophy of Existence
"Philosophizing presses on reflectively to the point where thinking becomes the experience of reality itself. … I must think constantly, though without attaining reality in such thinking alone. By way of a provisional, preparatory thinking I experience something more than thought."
- Karl Jaspers
"The Spirit breaks down barriers and tears down the walls of indifference and hatred...."
- Pope Leo XIV
Homily for Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
This will be a wonderful event, with a focus on the complex relationships between Indigenous traditions and Christianity, honoring the wisdom of the Haudensosaunee and the legacy of Pope Francis.
If you're in the New York area, check out "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, The Jesuits, and Laudato si: Defending Mother Earth,"
Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm
Free and Open to the Public!
Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan
Laughing on the Brink of Humanity: An Exercise in Epihumanism
by Jan Miernowski
Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science, this book is appropriate to our posthuman age.
sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laug...
RIP Alphonso Lingis (November 23, 1933 - May 8, 2025), a brilliant philosopher, writer, and photographer.
One of my favorite books of his is The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
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