By Celia Coates Here’s the sentence that caught my attention while I was reading an account of research done decades ago: “There were raids on the other’s cabin, name-calling, fights, and other hostile behavior.” It sounded like the 2016 Presidential season although the study involved 22 eleven-year-old boys and our national politics involves thousands and…
Category: Wisdom
Why Do We Listen to Stories?
By Celia Coates This is a new version of an old article. Then (in 1990) – I was interested in the use of stories in psychotherapy. Now – I’m interested in combining the power of stories with the power of science as we explore What Is Needed Now. We need to use both ways of…
Edgar Mitchell: The Courage We Need for Today
By Celia Coates Let’s begin with poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) – “This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. That mankind has in this sense been cowardly has done life endless harm:…
A Crab, a Shrimp, and….
By Celia Coates As I read a short article in NEW SCIENTIST Magazine called “A crab, a shrimp and a fish go into a burrow…” a little movie formed in my imagination and I was charmed. Science doesn’t usually do “charming” but here is that story – Researcher Alexandra Hiller of the Smithsonian Tropical Research…