Sophie de Grouchy’s Visionary 18th-Century Appeal to Parents and Teachers – The Marginalian
The morning after the 2016 presidential election, I awoke to terrifying flashbacks of my childhood under a totalitarian dictatorship. Desperate […]
Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty – The Marginalian
It is strange how, in a universe governed by relentless change, human beings hunger for constancy — our bodies wired
Neurobiologist Susan R. Barry’s Moving Correspondence with Oliver Sacks about the Blessed Overwhelm of Transformation – The Marginalian
There is a thought experiment known as Mary’s Room, brilliant and haunting, about the abyss between felt experience and our
Living and Loving Outside the Confines of Conventional Friendship and Compulsory Coupledom – The Marginalian
We move through the world largely unaware that our emotions are made of concepts — the brain’s coping mechanism for
George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life – The Marginalian
The price we pay for being children of chance, born of a billion bright improbabilities that prevailed over the staggering
Carl Jung’s Legacy and the Countercultural Courage to Reclaim the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age – The Marginalian
“To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances… that’s what life
D.H. Lawrence and the Yearning for Living Unison – The Marginalian
The great paradox of personhood is that the sum is simpler than its parts. We move through the world as
Pioneering Sociologist and Philosopher Helen Merrell Lynd on the Uncomfortable Path to Wholeness – The Marginalian
There are certain experiences that shatter the eggshell of the self and spill the yolk of the unconscious, slippery and
John Gardner on the Key to Self-Renewal Across Life and the Art of Making Rather Than Finding Meaning – The Marginalian
A person is not a potted plant of predetermined personality but a garden abloom with the consequences of chance and