Ocean Memory A talk by Melody Jue hosted by the Long Now Foundation longnow.org/talks/02026-...

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

"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 t.co/MpSFMM6E51

Energy Humanities is a hub for new ideas and insights about climate, energy, and culture. Starting in 2026 Energy Humanities will also be a new peer reviewed, open access journal with Open Library of Humanities. www.energyhumanities.ca

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. - Wendell Berry, "Our Real Work"

When you move water from land into the oceans on a global scale, it has some pretty noticeable effects. What's curious, though, is that soil moisture loss goes almost unrecognised compared to other hydrological shifts. Much more work needed in this space. 🧪 🌎 www.sciencefocus.com/news/earths-...

Bill McKibben reflects on the passing of Pope Francis and his enduring legacy open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

"we need to take time to think again about time…" - Ben Ware On Extinction: Beginning Again at the End

Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling By Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder www.broadleafbooks.com/store/produc...

Phenomenology and Future Generations: Generativity, Justice, and Amor Mundi, edited by Matthias Fritsch, Ferdinando G. Menga, and Rebecca van der Post A conceptual toolkit for anyone concerned with environmental justice and climate ethics. sunypress.edu/Books/P/Phen...

"For at least 600 yrs, residents marked the depth of winter by celebrating a natural phenomenon revered as the trail of a wandering god. But ...for the past 7 winters, the Miwatari has failed to appear because the lake didn’t freeze. This has happened only once before, half a millennium ago."

New episode of A Matter of Degrees! We talked with @cadavejones.bsky.social a former Insurance Commissioner about the LA fires. The climate crisis is breaking our insurance system -- but we fix it. Tune in and subscribe! degreespod.com/episodes/climate-crisis-breaking-insurance

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - -Emily Dickinson www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/...

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" youtu.be/mX2xIW7Oa9c?...

Decolonizing systems starts with listening, really listening, to those whose stories have been erased. By integrating these truths into policy, curriculum, and community spaces, we spark meaningful change that uplifts everyone.

Integral Ecology in Action: A Decade of Laudato Si A conference (online and in person) hosted by the University of San Francisco April 10, 9:00AM-3:00PM Registration is free! www.usfca.edu/event/integr...

Seems like a good time to remember that there is no such thing as "Western civilization" And the idea that European cultures are mainly Christian is laughable, especially in light of enduring influences from pre-Christian tribes (Nordic, Germanic, Celtic, etc.). www.theguardian.com/world/2016/n...

NRPE statement on Zeldin's move to undo critical EPA clean water protections. There will be public opportunities to comment on these changes and demand #cleanwaterforall in the coming weeks - stay tuned! #Faith4Earth

One (Un)Like the Other: Rethinking Ethics, Empathy, and Transcendence from Husserl to Derrida Rethinking ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology sunypress.edu/Books/O/One-...

"Our body and mind are both two and one. We usually think that if something is not one, it is more than one; if it is not singular, it is plural. But in actual experience, ­our life is not only plural, but also singular. Each one of us is both dependent and in­de­pen­dent." - Shunryu Suzuki

“The uneducated, when they engage in argument about anything, give no thought to the truth about the subject of discussion but are only eager that those present will accept the position they have set forth.” Plato’s Phaedo