The ability to empathise with others is a construct that has only been around for a few centuries. This does not mean that such a skill did not exist until then. However, the concept of empathy creates a field in which this ability oscillates from understanding the other party to understanding the self…
We feel like revising our relationships. This time, relationships between people. Relationships between genders whose borders are not as firm as we might have thought until recently – instead, they are entirely permeable…
Don’t worry about invoking death by speaking or reading about it – this is a message relayed by many peo- ple with terminal illnesses. And they’re right. An interest in our own demise and the departure of others can be a starting point for preparing to end our life mindfully; for detaching ourselves from this world responsi- bly…