Melanqualia is a feeling of aloneness as that does not arise from sadness but positivity. It is an emotion often fueled by creativity or idealism. It comes with an aspiration toward the higher levels of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: to self-actualize, cognitively, aesthetically, transcendentally. Melanqualia causes us to separate fromContinue Reading

The big lie is that the animal kingdom exists in a perpetual state of fear. Animals are highly alert, not fearful. We humans project our own state of fear upon animals because we live in an addictive and traumatic landscape. We believe our motivation is “reward-based,” and that animals, unlikeContinue Reading

Ecosystems are really not such a new concept. Montaigne, in the 1500s, writes how “students of natural law hold that the birth, nourishment, and growth of each thing is the alteration and corruption of another.” And to add authority to his point, he quotes the Roman philosopher, Lucretius: Whenever anythingContinue Reading