This is the forth in a series of articles that draw on particular issues I address in my most recent book Perspective and Guidance for a Time of Deep Discord: Why We See Such Extreme Social and Political Polarization and … Read More
This is the third in a series of short pieces that touch on topics I address in my most recent book Perspective and Guidance for a Time of Deep Discord: Why We See Such Extreme Social and Political Polarization and … Read More
As a cultural psychiatrist, I endeavor to bring big-picture perspective to our time’s important questions and challenges. In particular, I try to highlight how our times are requiring more “grown up” human skills and capacities—what I call a new … Read More
I approach addressing the future differently than most futurists. The larger portion of people whose work addresses what may lie ahead focus on technological advancement, or perhaps on obstacles that might present themselves in our efforts to advance. The kind … Read More
One of the most significant new capacities that accompanies Cultural Maturity changes is the ability to engage limits in more sophisticated ways. Of particular importance, we become better able to recognize that some limits are inviolable. Nothing more defined the … Read More
A new, more mature relationship to limits represents one of Cultural Maturity’s defining characteristics. In my writings, I’ve given special attention to one particularly ultimate example: our human relationship to death. Never in the history of the species has looking … Read More
Adapted from Cultural Maturity—A Guidebook for the Future In the end, we confront fundamental limits to knowing itself, at least to knowing absolutely. Modern psychology and psychiatry teach us about the impossibility (and undesirability, even if it were possible) of … Read More
Adapted from Cultural Maturity—A Guidebook for the Future Our analogy between Cultural Maturity and maturity when reached in individual development helps clarify what inviolable limits ask of us. It also makes the potential rewards for engaging them more understandable. In … Read More
The future will require a new, more mature relationship with death, and through this ultimately with life. Dramatic changes lie ahead in how we relate to death, changes that will present both fascinating new possibilities and wrenching new moral quandaries. … Read More