Dr. Sharon Blackie is an international teacher and renowned writer whose work weaves together psychology, mythology, and ecology to reveal how our cultural myths have led us to the individual and collective social and environmental problems we face today and how reconnection with our more ancient mythology would better serve our relationship with the Earth, our souls, and the cosmos. With a Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the University of […]
People of the caribou | An interview with Sarah James
Sarah Agnes James is a Neets’aii Gwich’in elder from above the Arctic Circle in the great Alaskan interior. Hers are the people of the caribou and she sings the caribou welcome song to protect their way of life. Her parents and grandparents taught her to protect “the sacred place where all life begins,” which is Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit. She grew up on the land in the far north and […]
Sharon Frame Gay | Birthday girl
The faces around the table are blurred. They’ve lost their hard edges, my vision deteriorating. In front of me is a cake, gaily decorated in pinks and greens, with enough candles to set off the sprinklers in the ceiling. I am one hundred and four years old today. April the 11th. The time of year when spring lambs are born. I came into this world in a small town in […]
War no more | Towards true global security
Did you know that the United States spends more on its military than the next ten nations combined? I’m quoting Forbes here, not some left-wing rag. In 2017, when the Forbes article was published, the United States’ defense budget was approximately $600 billion annually. That number was topped in 2018, when Congress passed and the President signed a $716 billion defense budget. Even those numbers, astronomical as they are, understate the […]
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