What the Mind Has to Do With the Climate Crisis

The prevailing materialistic culture has created a divided world where the sacred is relegated to churches and temples, the body to the gym, mental health to pills from the pharmacy. Economic growth is pursued as if it had nothing to do with the environment and ignorance, racism, and warfare continue to separate people and nations. These divisions
... See moreStanislav Grof • Holotropic Breathwork, Second Edition: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology)

As someone working in and seeking systems change, I can’t help but witness the clinging in how I relate to the ecological, social, and spiritual crises that we are entangled in. I cling to the despair that these specific systems we need are stuck and broken. I am attached to the contracted urgency of the problems that must be solved. I become so ob... See more