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Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, 
who share multidimensional, local and diverse 
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Bayo Akomolafe

5 courses
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Sophie Strand

3 courses
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Satish Kumar

1 courses
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Vandana Shiva

6 courses
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Veronica Strang

1 courses
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Manda Scott

2 courses
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Beloved Sara Zaltash

1 courses
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David Abram

2 courses
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Dr Andreas Weber

5 courses
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David Whyte

1 courses
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Helena Norberg-Hodge

2 courses
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Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic

1 courses
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Charles Eisenstein

3 courses
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Aisha Paris Smith

2 courses
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Brontë Velez

3 courses

Timothy Morton

Timothy is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University.

Timothy is Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. He is the author of Being Ecological, Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People, and Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence. He has collaborated with Björk, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, and Pharrell Williams.

Contemporary Spirituality Picture

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Contemporary Spirituality

Explore the foundations of meaning and belief in the modern world, connections between the sacred and profane, and topics including altered states, eco-spirituality, and sacred activism. You will learn how to navigate through these confused times with a greater understanding of spirituality and its place within our intersecting ecosystems of meaning.

Dark Green Gods: on hyperobjects, animism and the greening of religion Picture

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Dark Green Gods: on hyperobjects, animism and the greening of religion

In Dark Green Religion, environmentalism intersects with religiosity to sanctify nature. It proposes a sacred view of the natural world, so could this be an answer to our ecological crises? In this webinar, Hannah Close, curator of Contemporary Spirituality, dialogues with Timothy Morton, one of the course teachers, about eco-spirituality, religion in the modern Western world, 'Nature' as a concept, hyperobjects (a term coined by Tim), and more.

Dark Green Gods: on hyperobjects, animism and the greening of religion Picture

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Dark Green Gods: on hyperobjects, animism and the greening of religion

In Dark Green Religion, environmentalism intersects with religiosity to sanctify nature. It proposes a sacred view of the natural world, so could this be an answer to our ecological crises? In this webinar, Hannah Close, curator of Contemporary Spirituality, dialogues with Timothy Morton, one of the course teachers, about eco-spirituality, religion in the modern Western world, 'Nature' as a concept, hyperobjects (a term coined by Tim), and more.