The Humane Space
@thehumanespace.bsky.social
Activating minds for greater wellbeing. Learn, wonder, and imagine with us. Artist-founded; proudly based in Maine. Try our app for free on iOS or Android (US only). https://thehumanespace.app.link/iXL16CIfhyb
From lilies that generate physical force to trees that count cold hours, explore the hidden science behind spring’s great awakening—and what fleeting wildflowers can teach us about timing, connection, and the beauty of impermanence.
Experience the magic of spring—now in the app.
Experience the magic of spring—now in the app.
March 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
From lilies that generate physical force to trees that count cold hours, explore the hidden science behind spring’s great awakening—and what fleeting wildflowers can teach us about timing, connection, and the beauty of impermanence.
Experience the magic of spring—now in the app.
Experience the magic of spring—now in the app.
Have you ever felt like time bends around emotion—flying when you're happy, crawling when you're not?
In a new Awe Walk, explore how we experience time, from poetic reflections to physical footsteps. Walk with the past, present, and future all at once.
🎧 Now in the app.
In a new Awe Walk, explore how we experience time, from poetic reflections to physical footsteps. Walk with the past, present, and future all at once.
🎧 Now in the app.
March 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Have you ever felt like time bends around emotion—flying when you're happy, crawling when you're not?
In a new Awe Walk, explore how we experience time, from poetic reflections to physical footsteps. Walk with the past, present, and future all at once.
🎧 Now in the app.
In a new Awe Walk, explore how we experience time, from poetic reflections to physical footsteps. Walk with the past, present, and future all at once.
🎧 Now in the app.
Bees see what we can’t. 🐝
While we see soft petals and bright colors, bees navigate an electric landscape of ultraviolet patterns invisible to us. Their entire world is bathed in colors invisible to us, revealing patterns and signals meant only for them—a glowing roadmap to pollen and nectar.
While we see soft petals and bright colors, bees navigate an electric landscape of ultraviolet patterns invisible to us. Their entire world is bathed in colors invisible to us, revealing patterns and signals meant only for them—a glowing roadmap to pollen and nectar.
March 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Bees see what we can’t. 🐝
While we see soft petals and bright colors, bees navigate an electric landscape of ultraviolet patterns invisible to us. Their entire world is bathed in colors invisible to us, revealing patterns and signals meant only for them—a glowing roadmap to pollen and nectar.
While we see soft petals and bright colors, bees navigate an electric landscape of ultraviolet patterns invisible to us. Their entire world is bathed in colors invisible to us, revealing patterns and signals meant only for them—a glowing roadmap to pollen and nectar.
💐 Do flowers have hidden meanings?
In Victorian times, every flower carried a message. Sweet peas expressed gratitude, lavender symbolized distrust, and yellow carnations? Disdain.
Learn about floriography and discover what your favorite flower meant—now in the app.
In Victorian times, every flower carried a message. Sweet peas expressed gratitude, lavender symbolized distrust, and yellow carnations? Disdain.
Learn about floriography and discover what your favorite flower meant—now in the app.
March 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
💐 Do flowers have hidden meanings?
In Victorian times, every flower carried a message. Sweet peas expressed gratitude, lavender symbolized distrust, and yellow carnations? Disdain.
Learn about floriography and discover what your favorite flower meant—now in the app.
In Victorian times, every flower carried a message. Sweet peas expressed gratitude, lavender symbolized distrust, and yellow carnations? Disdain.
Learn about floriography and discover what your favorite flower meant—now in the app.
Drift through space. Glow with fire. Settle into stillness. 🌌
In this new guided visualization, transform from a drifting meteoroid into a brilliant streak of light, illuminating the night sky before coming to rest in the serene waters of a glacial lake.
🎧 Your celestial journey awaits in the app.
In this new guided visualization, transform from a drifting meteoroid into a brilliant streak of light, illuminating the night sky before coming to rest in the serene waters of a glacial lake.
🎧 Your celestial journey awaits in the app.
March 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Drift through space. Glow with fire. Settle into stillness. 🌌
In this new guided visualization, transform from a drifting meteoroid into a brilliant streak of light, illuminating the night sky before coming to rest in the serene waters of a glacial lake.
🎧 Your celestial journey awaits in the app.
In this new guided visualization, transform from a drifting meteoroid into a brilliant streak of light, illuminating the night sky before coming to rest in the serene waters of a glacial lake.
🎧 Your celestial journey awaits in the app.
Why grow a garden?
There are many benefits to gardening, like growing beautiful flowers or your own food.
But a 2020 study also found that being around soil and plants helps lower cortisol and that contact with gardens helps manage stress.
Explore the mental benefits of gardening—now in the app.
There are many benefits to gardening, like growing beautiful flowers or your own food.
But a 2020 study also found that being around soil and plants helps lower cortisol and that contact with gardens helps manage stress.
Explore the mental benefits of gardening—now in the app.
March 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Why grow a garden?
There are many benefits to gardening, like growing beautiful flowers or your own food.
But a 2020 study also found that being around soil and plants helps lower cortisol and that contact with gardens helps manage stress.
Explore the mental benefits of gardening—now in the app.
There are many benefits to gardening, like growing beautiful flowers or your own food.
But a 2020 study also found that being around soil and plants helps lower cortisol and that contact with gardens helps manage stress.
Explore the mental benefits of gardening—now in the app.
Can your plants hear you? 🪴
New research reveals plants can “hear” predators, send signals like neurons, and even deceive pollinators. But do they think? Feel? Act with purpose? Scientists are rethinking what intelligence really means.
Explore more in this Deep Think, now in the app.
New research reveals plants can “hear” predators, send signals like neurons, and even deceive pollinators. But do they think? Feel? Act with purpose? Scientists are rethinking what intelligence really means.
Explore more in this Deep Think, now in the app.
March 12, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Can your plants hear you? 🪴
New research reveals plants can “hear” predators, send signals like neurons, and even deceive pollinators. But do they think? Feel? Act with purpose? Scientists are rethinking what intelligence really means.
Explore more in this Deep Think, now in the app.
New research reveals plants can “hear” predators, send signals like neurons, and even deceive pollinators. But do they think? Feel? Act with purpose? Scientists are rethinking what intelligence really means.
Explore more in this Deep Think, now in the app.
The air you breathe has a history.
It has passed through ancient forests, across oceans, and through the lungs of those who lived centuries ago. Explore the deep connection we all share through breath.
🎧 Take a relaxing Awe Walk with us in the app.
It has passed through ancient forests, across oceans, and through the lungs of those who lived centuries ago. Explore the deep connection we all share through breath.
🎧 Take a relaxing Awe Walk with us in the app.
March 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The air you breathe has a history.
It has passed through ancient forests, across oceans, and through the lungs of those who lived centuries ago. Explore the deep connection we all share through breath.
🎧 Take a relaxing Awe Walk with us in the app.
It has passed through ancient forests, across oceans, and through the lungs of those who lived centuries ago. Explore the deep connection we all share through breath.
🎧 Take a relaxing Awe Walk with us in the app.
Feeling overwhelmed? 🌿 Let the rhythm of falling rain clear your mind and the warmth of sunlight restore your focus. Step into calm, clarity, and balance—one raindrop at a time.
🎧 Find your moment of renewal in the app now.
🎧 Find your moment of renewal in the app now.
March 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Feeling overwhelmed? 🌿 Let the rhythm of falling rain clear your mind and the warmth of sunlight restore your focus. Step into calm, clarity, and balance—one raindrop at a time.
🎧 Find your moment of renewal in the app now.
🎧 Find your moment of renewal in the app now.
Does travel change us?
March 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Does travel change us?
What makes an experience adventurous?
Adventure is good for our emotional health, lends us a sense of personal growth, and helps us build resilience.
Today in the app, explore the E.P.I.C. Model of Adventure. Each step promises to push you further out of your comfort zone.
Adventure is good for our emotional health, lends us a sense of personal growth, and helps us build resilience.
Today in the app, explore the E.P.I.C. Model of Adventure. Each step promises to push you further out of your comfort zone.
February 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
What makes an experience adventurous?
Adventure is good for our emotional health, lends us a sense of personal growth, and helps us build resilience.
Today in the app, explore the E.P.I.C. Model of Adventure. Each step promises to push you further out of your comfort zone.
Adventure is good for our emotional health, lends us a sense of personal growth, and helps us build resilience.
Today in the app, explore the E.P.I.C. Model of Adventure. Each step promises to push you further out of your comfort zone.
What rhythms, harmonies, and melodies shape your life?
In our new Awe Walk, discover how percussion, bass, accompaniment, and melody work together, just like the routines, values, and passions that bring balance to your life.
🎧 Explore in the app.
In our new Awe Walk, discover how percussion, bass, accompaniment, and melody work together, just like the routines, values, and passions that bring balance to your life.
🎧 Explore in the app.
February 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
What rhythms, harmonies, and melodies shape your life?
In our new Awe Walk, discover how percussion, bass, accompaniment, and melody work together, just like the routines, values, and passions that bring balance to your life.
🎧 Explore in the app.
In our new Awe Walk, discover how percussion, bass, accompaniment, and melody work together, just like the routines, values, and passions that bring balance to your life.
🎧 Explore in the app.
Do you believe in soulmates?
A 2021 poll found that 60% of U.S. adults do. But where did this idea come from?
A 2021 poll found that 60% of U.S. adults do. But where did this idea come from?
February 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Do you believe in soulmates?
A 2021 poll found that 60% of U.S. adults do. But where did this idea come from?
A 2021 poll found that 60% of U.S. adults do. But where did this idea come from?
A peaceful exploration of color awaits, where the interplay of light and pigment inspires a deeper appreciation for the simple yet profound beauty in your environment.
🎧 A new Awe Walk, "A Color Quest," is now in the app.
🎧 A new Awe Walk, "A Color Quest," is now in the app.
February 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
A peaceful exploration of color awaits, where the interplay of light and pigment inspires a deeper appreciation for the simple yet profound beauty in your environment.
🎧 A new Awe Walk, "A Color Quest," is now in the app.
🎧 A new Awe Walk, "A Color Quest," is now in the app.
This Valentine’s Day, take an Awe Walk with composer Clara Schumann.
One of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, she infused “Three Romances for Violin and Piano” with deep feeling— a soundtrack for love, longing, and beauty.
🎧 Now in the app.
One of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, she infused “Three Romances for Violin and Piano” with deep feeling— a soundtrack for love, longing, and beauty.
🎧 Now in the app.
February 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This Valentine’s Day, take an Awe Walk with composer Clara Schumann.
One of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, she infused “Three Romances for Violin and Piano” with deep feeling— a soundtrack for love, longing, and beauty.
🎧 Now in the app.
One of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, she infused “Three Romances for Violin and Piano” with deep feeling— a soundtrack for love, longing, and beauty.
🎧 Now in the app.
How does love affect you? 💕
Science shows that love isn’t just a feeling—it’s a full-brain takeover. Dopamine surges, cortisol spikes, and serotonin drops, making us obsess over someone new.
Explore the biology of love—now in the app.
Image: Gustav Klimt. "The Kiss," 1907—08
Science shows that love isn’t just a feeling—it’s a full-brain takeover. Dopamine surges, cortisol spikes, and serotonin drops, making us obsess over someone new.
Explore the biology of love—now in the app.
Image: Gustav Klimt. "The Kiss," 1907—08
February 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
How does love affect you? 💕
Science shows that love isn’t just a feeling—it’s a full-brain takeover. Dopamine surges, cortisol spikes, and serotonin drops, making us obsess over someone new.
Explore the biology of love—now in the app.
Image: Gustav Klimt. "The Kiss," 1907—08
Science shows that love isn’t just a feeling—it’s a full-brain takeover. Dopamine surges, cortisol spikes, and serotonin drops, making us obsess over someone new.
Explore the biology of love—now in the app.
Image: Gustav Klimt. "The Kiss," 1907—08
In "How to Love," the late Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh outlines what he calls the "four elements" of true love, offering timeless guidance for deep and meaningful connections.
Today in the app, explore how these four elements offer a framework for love.
Today in the app, explore how these four elements offer a framework for love.
February 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
In "How to Love," the late Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh outlines what he calls the "four elements" of true love, offering timeless guidance for deep and meaningful connections.
Today in the app, explore how these four elements offer a framework for love.
Today in the app, explore how these four elements offer a framework for love.
Have you ever written a love letter?
For centuries, putting pen to paper was the only way to express affection over great distances. From Frida Kahlo to John Cage, 20th-century creative geniuses wrote some of history’s most beautiful love letters.
Explore them—now in the app.
For centuries, putting pen to paper was the only way to express affection over great distances. From Frida Kahlo to John Cage, 20th-century creative geniuses wrote some of history’s most beautiful love letters.
Explore them—now in the app.
February 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Have you ever written a love letter?
For centuries, putting pen to paper was the only way to express affection over great distances. From Frida Kahlo to John Cage, 20th-century creative geniuses wrote some of history’s most beautiful love letters.
Explore them—now in the app.
For centuries, putting pen to paper was the only way to express affection over great distances. From Frida Kahlo to John Cage, 20th-century creative geniuses wrote some of history’s most beautiful love letters.
Explore them—now in the app.
How often do you notice the balance of giving and receiving? 🌿
Explore Ayni, the Andean principle of reciprocity—where every breath, step, and act of kindness is part of nature’s constant exchange. Observe the unseen connections that sustain life.
🎧 Walk with Ayni in the app now.
Explore Ayni, the Andean principle of reciprocity—where every breath, step, and act of kindness is part of nature’s constant exchange. Observe the unseen connections that sustain life.
🎧 Walk with Ayni in the app now.
February 9, 2025 at 12:27 PM
How often do you notice the balance of giving and receiving? 🌿
Explore Ayni, the Andean principle of reciprocity—where every breath, step, and act of kindness is part of nature’s constant exchange. Observe the unseen connections that sustain life.
🎧 Walk with Ayni in the app now.
Explore Ayni, the Andean principle of reciprocity—where every breath, step, and act of kindness is part of nature’s constant exchange. Observe the unseen connections that sustain life.
🎧 Walk with Ayni in the app now.
Need a moment of quiet this weekend?
Step into a Japanese zen garden in a Mind Journey guided visualization. Feel the cool stepping stones beneath your feet, rake patterns into the sand, and let the rhythmic motion bring you calm and clarity.
🎧 Find your moment of stillness now in the app.
Step into a Japanese zen garden in a Mind Journey guided visualization. Feel the cool stepping stones beneath your feet, rake patterns into the sand, and let the rhythmic motion bring you calm and clarity.
🎧 Find your moment of stillness now in the app.
February 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Need a moment of quiet this weekend?
Step into a Japanese zen garden in a Mind Journey guided visualization. Feel the cool stepping stones beneath your feet, rake patterns into the sand, and let the rhythmic motion bring you calm and clarity.
🎧 Find your moment of stillness now in the app.
Step into a Japanese zen garden in a Mind Journey guided visualization. Feel the cool stepping stones beneath your feet, rake patterns into the sand, and let the rhythmic motion bring you calm and clarity.
🎧 Find your moment of stillness now in the app.
This week in the app, we’re celebrating the artistry of Qing dynasty dragon robes with the Denver Art Museum. Delve into the legacy of craftsmanship and storytelling behind these stunning garments. Here’s a sneak peek!
February 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week in the app, we’re celebrating the artistry of Qing dynasty dragon robes with the Denver Art Museum. Delve into the legacy of craftsmanship and storytelling behind these stunning garments. Here’s a sneak peek!
Do you know the work of renowned fiber artist Elizabeth Talford Scott?
She transformed onion sacks, sequins, and shells into stunning quilts. Explore the stories stitched into her art, today in the app.
Image courtesy Goya Contemporary
She transformed onion sacks, sequins, and shells into stunning quilts. Explore the stories stitched into her art, today in the app.
Image courtesy Goya Contemporary
February 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Do you know the work of renowned fiber artist Elizabeth Talford Scott?
She transformed onion sacks, sequins, and shells into stunning quilts. Explore the stories stitched into her art, today in the app.
Image courtesy Goya Contemporary
She transformed onion sacks, sequins, and shells into stunning quilts. Explore the stories stitched into her art, today in the app.
Image courtesy Goya Contemporary
This week in the app, we’re partnering with the Denver Art Museum to uncover the stories woven into Navajo textiles.
Here’s a sneak peek of the intricate beauty and history in every thread.
Here’s a sneak peek of the intricate beauty and history in every thread.
February 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
This week in the app, we’re partnering with the Denver Art Museum to uncover the stories woven into Navajo textiles.
Here’s a sneak peek of the intricate beauty and history in every thread.
Here’s a sneak peek of the intricate beauty and history in every thread.
We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Denver Art Museum for a week-long celebration of artistic textiles from around the globe!
Together, we’ll unravel the stories woven into stunning works from the Denver Art Museum’s vast collection of textiles. Discover:
Together, we’ll unravel the stories woven into stunning works from the Denver Art Museum’s vast collection of textiles. Discover:
February 3, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We’re thrilled to be partnering with the Denver Art Museum for a week-long celebration of artistic textiles from around the globe!
Together, we’ll unravel the stories woven into stunning works from the Denver Art Museum’s vast collection of textiles. Discover:
Together, we’ll unravel the stories woven into stunning works from the Denver Art Museum’s vast collection of textiles. Discover:
When you’ve experienced grief, what rituals have brought you comfort?
February 2, 2025 at 12:43 PM
When you’ve experienced grief, what rituals have brought you comfort?