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Psyche Magazine — 90 episodes
Don’t let nature slip out of reach
Glass eggs
Sometimes, the road to virtue comes by way of vice
Slow down, it’s what your brain has been begging for
How to be indistractable
The satisfaction of doing work that lasts
Writing letters is a spiritual practice for our age of speed
Two actors, no director, one dreamlike play
Being in a crowd doesn’t make you part of a mindless mob
How to think like a Hegelian
Climbing gives me a break from my brain
Mother Teresa was virtuous, but she was wrong about virtue
How to enter a state of flow
Free-range fraud
Why we should learn to embrace the middlebrow
In praise of not-quite-friends
After the performance
Your deepest regrets help you see yourself more clearly
Why some men seek refuge in ever bigger muscles
Make some noise
Don’t turn away from tragedy, but do witness intentionally
How to become the person you want to be
What ancient art tells us about modern psychedelic medicine
When the world stopped moving
Jung’s archetypes are a mirror that shows who and what we are
What draws well-meaning parents to authoritarian parenting?
How to rediscover the joy of drawing
The joy of falling down together
I am that I am
Being lonely taught me how to be me
How to imagine a better future for yourself
Does modernisation erase cultural difference – or amplify it?
A college fling
Same art, different name: would you see or hear it the same way?
We should study the history of emotions
Who do you think you are? There are two answers
Tips and tools for navigating hearing loss
Why you should talk to your dead ancestors
The wolverine gospel
The thinking style that makes people vulnerable to extremism
What moments of insight have in common
How to deal with relationship OCD
Ghosts of summers past
Mary McLeod Bethune reminds us: education must be fought for
The city that rewired my brain
How to do less for your children
Struggling with creative work doesn’t mean you’re failing
I cognitively shuffle myself to sleep
Why older people are happier and what we can learn from them
What is Roblox teaching children about capitalism?
The marks we leave each day
How needing others became a source of shame for Americans
How to talk to someone who has dementia
Your daydreams know something you don’t. Look closely
What came knocking
How to find your InnSæi
Why are we curious about some things and indifferent to others?
Why some healthy habits still take so much effort
The art of hiking
Seeing grief for what it is
The special kind of knowledge that can’t be put into words
The roots of goodness
Why raves are such a reliable source of spiritual experience
How to be defiant
The existential balm of seeing yourself as a verb, not a noun
For maximisers, bad choices really sting
It’s not always clear when someone’s lost the ability to decide
Which ‘you’ does your partner see?
For some exercisers, a healthy habit spins out of control
Letting friendships die
How to come back to your senses
The unravelling
How to be the archivist of your own family
Talk to strangers
Music speaks louder than words through what it leaves unsaid
How to navigate your menopause
True resilience is not about bouncing back
The ghost in the image was me
Reality shifting opens portals to the weirdness of our world
A psalm for lost spaces
Good apologies don’t close the book: they open a new chapter
Not fight, flight or freeze, but fawn
After the cod
How to bring up pet peeves in your relationship
The uncanny feeling that a dead person is still close by
How to stop your life playing on repeat
The kids forgotten by calls to ban phones
Have online worlds become the last free places for children?
How to practise a musical instrument
A prescription for randomness