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Griffin and Tyrrell on Meaning, Mysticism and Mental Health | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. Griffin and Tyrrell on Meaning, Mysticism and Mental Health. January 22, 2013 Filed under: Ideas. While in England recently I had the opportunity to meet with psychologists Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell – the originators of the Human Givens. School of psychotherapy. At the core of their approach is the idea that humans, like all organic beings, come into this world with a set of needs. If those needs are met in balance, it is not possible to be mentally ill. Once yo...

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Hallak on ‘Beit Beirut’ | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. Hallak on ‘Beit Beirut’. December 8, 2012 Filed under: Culture. One of the few remaining structures bearing the scars of Lebanon’s fifteen year civil-war (1975-1990) is Beirut’s Barakat Building. This once stately and aristocratic edifice straddles a key intersection near the centre of the city. The four-story avant-garde building was designed by two architects in the 1920s and 30s and fused Art Deco elements with oriental motifs. In a way the void became more impo...

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Environment | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. Auld on Circumskiing Mount Logan. September 7, 2013. Last spring I spent a week with a group of mountaineers at a remote glacier camp in Yukon’s St. Elias Range near the base of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak. Sometimes referred to as “Canada’s Himalayas”, the St. Elias Mountains (the highest in North America) sit within the largest glaciated region outside of Greenland and the […]. In Search of the Elusive Apeman of the Great Bear Rainforest. July 4, 2013.

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John Zada | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. John Zada is freelance writer and photographer based in Toronto who covers travel, culture and the Middle East. In addition to authoring "The Planisphere", he is also co-author of "Al-Bab", a cultural blog about the Middle East. Http:/ www.johnzada.com. Adnan Khan on the Rickshaw Circus. March 3, 2014. Auld on Circumskiing Mount Logan. September 7, 2013. In Search of the Elusive Apeman of the Great Bear Rainforest. July 4, 2013. ONE’S FIRST bird’s-eye-v...Fast on t...

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The Native American Deadfall | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. The Native American Deadfall. December 2, 2012 Filed under: Culture. Under the guidance of elders, the couple have been building traditional structures that were once used by their ancestors including: a winter house, a salmon trap, a puberty house, a bone cache and a smoke house. Most fascinating for me was the deadfall trap a native American animal trap which goes back thousands of years. Griffin & Tyrrell. Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge.

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John Bell and John Zada | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. John Bell and John Zada. Context Blindness and the Crisis in Syria. By John Bell and John Zada. June 9, 2013. Beyond providing yet another window onto tyranny and inhumanity run amok, the crisis in Syria may also be indicative of something nearly as unsettling: the ultimate failure of the international system. There appears to be no way out of the conflict, and worse, the behaviour of every actor seems to be only deepening the difficulties. […].

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In Search of the Elusive Apeman of the Great Bear Rainforest | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. In Search of the Elusive Apeman of the Great Bear Rainforest. July 4, 2013 Filed under: Culture. ONE’S FIRST bird’s-eye-view of the Great Bear Rainforest, a rugged landscape of mossy green foliage and ocean, often comes during those rarified days of summer in which the world’s most impenetrable wilderness is laid fleetingly bare. Did you see the lake we flew over? Welcome to the edge of the known world. But there was another element tugging at my yearning for this ...

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Exploration | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. Adnan Khan on the Rickshaw Circus. March 3, 2014. Canadian journalist, and friend, Adnan Khan, has been covering South Asia and Middle East for over a decade. When not traipsing around Turkey, his home turf, the Maclean’s correspondent can usually be found in Pakistan or Afghanistan working on his next feature story. In 2012, Khan took a much needed break from his reporting duties and embarked […]. Auld on Circumskiing Mount Logan. September 7, 2013. July 4, 2013.

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Context Blindness and the Crisis in Syria | The Planisphere

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Exploration, Ideas, Culture, Discovery. Context Blindness and the Crisis in Syria. By John Bell and John Zada. June 9, 2013 Filed under: Culture. There is a term that has been developed in psychology called CAETEXTIA. Which denotes blindness to context (the term comes from the Latin word. This article was co-authored with John Bell,. Director of the Middle East programme at the Toledo International Centre for Peace in Madrid. Griffin & Tyrrell. Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge.