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From the book chapter: Life The long-held view within the Western world according to which humans distinguish themselves from nonhumans through particular cognitive and moral abilities is now falling apart. According to ethologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, “It is time to stop running after a human specificity. In my life, I have probably seen some twenty-five proposals on […]

From the book chapter: Nature “This declaration was drafted in 2010 during the World’s People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in which thirty-five thousand people and delegations from more than a hundred countries participated. The declaration affirms that: “We are all part of Mother Earth, an indivisible, […]

From the book chapter: Life   According to French anthropologist Philippe Descola, the ontological separation between humans and nonhumans and the opposition between nature and culture historically only developed in the Western world, it has recently spread like a disease over the rest of the planet. The environmental crisis is a cultural crisis: it is […]

An excerpt from the book chapter: Being as the New Paradigm “This human transformation, this change of story we are calling for, is something I get to hear and see every day here in the Plum Village Mindfulness Practice Center through many individual examples. People come here and often quickly relate to what is written on the main […]

An excerpt from the book chapter: Being as the New Paradigm “The many scientifically demonstrated effects of meditation inform us of the changes in attitudes and behaviors inner development can help promote (see chapter 9). We may also consider the testimonies of the most spiritually advanced people that have walked this earth to clearly understand the direction that spiritual […]