Category: Religion
Japanese Miniatures: Sukunabiko
April 18, 2024Vamana
April 6, 2021Tsimtsum
October 25, 2020Tsimtsum is a Hebrew term meaning contraction, constriction or condensation. In the Kabbalah it is used to explain how God initiated the Creation by a process of contracting from his infinite omnipresence. Within the resulting space mankind could come into existence. So basically God actively shrunk…
David and Goliath
March 24, 2020Mayan Dwarf Liminality
February 23, 2020Short-statured people, dwarfs and people with achondroplasia play a significant role in Maya mythology. It was believed that dwarfs lived together with the gods long before humans even existed. This presumed divine proximity and intimacy gave the small-statured status. Dwarfs knew something that the taller…
Abundance Fantasies:Evangelical Carrots
February 11, 2018In our series on Abundance Fantasies we explore how we can activate our deeply rooted desire for abundance, codified within our language, our myths and religions, to initiate the desire to shrink. There’s an unmistakable relationship between fundamental human desire for abundance and how this desire…
Abundance Fantasies: Al-Kawthar
June 23, 2013Post-Growth / Post-Scarcity
June 18, 2013Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants in a world of limited resources. Several cornucopians have explored the notion of the post-scarcity economy, with unlimited free goods, services and information. The most appealing aspect of most of these post-scarcity…