Sam Mickey
@sammickey.bsky.social
Philosophy, ecological civilization, climate ethics, teaching at the University of San Francisco, podcasting for the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology
In States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization, Mohamed Amer Meziane shows how, in a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself. www.versobooks.com/products/305...
The States of the Earth
While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand wi...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
In States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization, Mohamed Amer Meziane shows how, in a world where material technology was considered divine, religious and secular forces both tried to achieve Heaven on Earth by destroying Earth itself. www.versobooks.com/products/305...
Lived Experience for Everyone, a podcast created and hosted by Joseph Rivera and Helena Connolly.
Talking about how academic studies in theology, philosophy, religion, contemplative practice, poetry or literature can enrich your life.
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Talking about how academic studies in theology, philosophy, religion, contemplative practice, poetry or literature can enrich your life.
livedexperiencepodcast.podbean.com
Lived Experience for Everyone | livedexperiencepodcast
<span>Welcome to Lived Experience for Everyone. This podcast seeks to harness academic expertise in a conversational tone. Each episode invites guests from fields such as spirituality, philosophy, poe...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Lived Experience for Everyone, a podcast created and hosted by Joseph Rivera and Helena Connolly.
Talking about how academic studies in theology, philosophy, religion, contemplative practice, poetry or literature can enrich your life.
livedexperiencepodcast.podbean.com
Talking about how academic studies in theology, philosophy, religion, contemplative practice, poetry or literature can enrich your life.
livedexperiencepodcast.podbean.com
“Since our mind is not proportionate to the divine substance, God remains beyond our intellect and so is unknown to us. Hence the supreme knowledge which we have of God is to know that we do not know God, insofar as we know that what God is surpasses all that we can understand.”
— Thomas Aquinas
— Thomas Aquinas
October 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“Since our mind is not proportionate to the divine substance, God remains beyond our intellect and so is unknown to us. Hence the supreme knowledge which we have of God is to know that we do not know God, insofar as we know that what God is surpasses all that we can understand.”
— Thomas Aquinas
— Thomas Aquinas
"truth sinks in like rain into very hard earth. The rain is very gentle, and we soften up slowly at our own speed. But when that happens, something has fundamentally changed in us. That hard earth has softened. It doesn’t seem to happen by trying to get it or capture it. It happens by letting go"
September 24, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"truth sinks in like rain into very hard earth. The rain is very gentle, and we soften up slowly at our own speed. But when that happens, something has fundamentally changed in us. That hard earth has softened. It doesn’t seem to happen by trying to get it or capture it. It happens by letting go"
Applied Mysticism: Studies of Meditation and Psychedelics in Secular Contexts
by Richard H. Jones
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by Richard H. Jones
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Applied Mysticism
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September 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Applied Mysticism: Studies of Meditation and Psychedelics in Secular Contexts
by Richard H. Jones
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by Richard H. Jones
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Reflections on Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press)
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What Counts as American Religion?
Whether or not one agrees with Tweed’s definition of religion, his choice to begin his story in ancient Texas toward the end of the last Ice Age in North America, rather than New England or Jamestown ...
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September 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Reflections on Thomas Tweed’s transformative new history, Religion in the Lands That Became America: A New History (Yale University Press)
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
"The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach"
by Andre van der Braak
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by Andre van der Braak
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(PDF) The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach
PDF | On May 24, 2025, André van der Braak published The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...
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September 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"The study of mystical experiences and Latour’s ontological turn: toward a participatory approach"
by Andre van der Braak
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
by Andre van der Braak
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y’all remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset?
i think about that a *lot.*
i think about that a *lot.*
January 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
y’all remember when adorno said that intolerance of ambiguity is indicative of an authoritarian mindset?
i think about that a *lot.*
i think about that a *lot.*
Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art. Towards Theory and Practice
An open access volume edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
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An open access volume edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
www.peterlang.com/document/128...
Peter Lang Verlag - Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art
Through the burgeoning fields of Posthumanities and Environmental Humanities, this edition examines the changing conception of human subjectivity, ...
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August 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art. Towards Theory and Practice
An open access volume edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
www.peterlang.com/document/128...
An open access volume edited by Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
www.peterlang.com/document/128...
"To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
August 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"To live together in the world means essentially that a world of things is between those who have it in common, as a table is located between those who sit around it; the world, like every in-between, relates and separates men at the same time."
- Hannah Arendt
- Hannah Arendt
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The new Ecozoic Reader is live—guest-edited by Sam King & Sam Mickey with reflections from leaders across religion & ecology.
A look back at our roots, and forward to what’s next.
Read here → bit.ly/ecozoicreader
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A look back at our roots, and forward to what’s next.
Read here → bit.ly/ecozoicreader
cc: @sammickey.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The new Ecozoic Reader is live—guest-edited by Sam King & Sam Mickey with reflections from leaders across religion & ecology.
A look back at our roots, and forward to what’s next.
Read here → bit.ly/ecozoicreader
cc: @sammickey.bsky.social
A look back at our roots, and forward to what’s next.
Read here → bit.ly/ecozoicreader
cc: @sammickey.bsky.social
A Fire Runs through All Things: Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis
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A Fire Runs through All Things
PubWest 2023 Book Design Award (Silver)At a time of climate emergency, Zen koans show us how crisis itself can reveal the regenerative openness of life, mind, and being.Zen koans are a tradition of ho...
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August 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
A Fire Runs through All Things: Zen Koans for Facing the Climate Crisis
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In memoriam, Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 - July 19, 2025)
For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and “awake activist” Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation.
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For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and “awake activist” Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation.
tricycle.org/article/reme...
Ecodharma Leader Joanna Macy Has Died
For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and "awake activist" Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation.
tricycle.org
July 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
In memoriam, Joanna Macy (May 2, 1929 - July 19, 2025)
For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and “awake activist” Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation.
tricycle.org/article/reme...
For more than half a century, scholar, Buddhist, ecologist, and “awake activist” Joanna Macy, PhD, worked tirelessly for personal, social, and planetary transformation.
tricycle.org/article/reme...
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The latest Spotlights episode is live:
Natalia Schwien Scott on healing, kinship, and the sacred threads between science and spirit.
Herbalist. Wildlife rehab apprentice. Harvard PhD candidate.
Hosted by @sammickey.bsky.social
🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=eupgQhsZDdA
#ReligionAndEcology #Fore
Natalia Schwien Scott on healing, kinship, and the sacred threads between science and spirit.
Herbalist. Wildlife rehab apprentice. Harvard PhD candidate.
Hosted by @sammickey.bsky.social
🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=eupgQhsZDdA
#ReligionAndEcology #Fore
July 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The latest Spotlights episode is live:
Natalia Schwien Scott on healing, kinship, and the sacred threads between science and spirit.
Herbalist. Wildlife rehab apprentice. Harvard PhD candidate.
Hosted by @sammickey.bsky.social
🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=eupgQhsZDdA
#ReligionAndEcology #Fore
Natalia Schwien Scott on healing, kinship, and the sacred threads between science and spirit.
Herbalist. Wildlife rehab apprentice. Harvard PhD candidate.
Hosted by @sammickey.bsky.social
🎥 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=eupgQhsZDdA
#ReligionAndEcology #Fore
CETI: a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.
www.projectceti.org
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Project CETI •-- Home
CETI is a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.
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June 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
CETI: a nonprofit organization applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art robotics to listen to and translate the communication of sperm whales.
www.projectceti.org
www.projectceti.org
A beautiful summer day for the San Francisco Bay.
June 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM
A beautiful summer day for the San Francisco Bay.
Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia | UC Davis
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Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia
University of California, Davis, researchers have developed a new, neuroplasticity-promoting drug closely related to LSD that harnesses the psychedelic’s therapeutic power with reduced hallucinogenic ...
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June 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Researchers Develop an LSD Analogue with Potential for Treating Schizophrenia | UC Davis
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I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
- Emily Dickinson
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
- Emily Dickinson
June 14, 2025 at 3:07 AM
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
- Emily Dickinson
Are you – Nobody – too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!
How dreary – to be – Somebody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
- Emily Dickinson
"Philosophizing presses on reflectively to the point where thinking becomes the experience of reality itself. … I must think constantly, though without attaining reality in such thinking alone. By way of a provisional, preparatory thinking I experience something more than thought."
- Karl Jaspers
- Karl Jaspers
June 9, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"Philosophizing presses on reflectively to the point where thinking becomes the experience of reality itself. … I must think constantly, though without attaining reality in such thinking alone. By way of a provisional, preparatory thinking I experience something more than thought."
- Karl Jaspers
- Karl Jaspers
"The Spirit breaks down barriers and tears down the walls of indifference and hatred...."
- Pope Leo XIV
Homily for Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025
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- Pope Leo XIV
Homily for Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025
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Pentecost Sunday - Holy Mass in the Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities (8 June 2025) | LEO XIV
The Holy Father Leo XIV presides over the Eucharistic Celebration on the Solemnity of Pentecost - Jubilee of Movements, Associations and New Communities, 8 June 202
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June 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"The Spirit breaks down barriers and tears down the walls of indifference and hatred...."
- Pope Leo XIV
Homily for Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
- Pope Leo XIV
Homily for Pentecost Sunday, June 8, 2025
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
This will be a wonderful event, with a focus on the complex relationships between Indigenous traditions and Christianity, honoring the wisdom of the Haudensosaunee and the legacy of Pope Francis.
If you're in the New York area, check out "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, The Jesuits, and Laudato si: Defending Mother Earth,"
Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm
Free and Open to the Public!
Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan
Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm
Free and Open to the Public!
Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan
June 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This will be a wonderful event, with a focus on the complex relationships between Indigenous traditions and Christianity, honoring the wisdom of the Haudensosaunee and the legacy of Pope Francis.
Reposted by Sam Mickey
If you're in the New York area, check out "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, The Jesuits, and Laudato si: Defending Mother Earth,"
Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm
Free and Open to the Public!
Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan
Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm
Free and Open to the Public!
Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan
June 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If you're in the New York area, check out "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, The Jesuits, and Laudato si: Defending Mother Earth,"
Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm
Free and Open to the Public!
Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan
Saturday, June 14, 1:00-4:00pm
Free and Open to the Public!
Featuring Phillip Arnold, Sandy Bigtree, Kim Carfore, Christiana Zenner, and Chip Callahan
Laughing on the Brink of Humanity: An Exercise in Epihumanism
by Jan Miernowski
Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science, this book is appropriate to our posthuman age.
sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laug...
by Jan Miernowski
Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science, this book is appropriate to our posthuman age.
sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laug...
Laughing on the Brink of Humanity
sunypress.edu
May 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Laughing on the Brink of Humanity: An Exercise in Epihumanism
by Jan Miernowski
Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science, this book is appropriate to our posthuman age.
sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laug...
by Jan Miernowski
Looking for laughter on the brink of humanity in literature and philosophy, natural science and film, theology and computer science, this book is appropriate to our posthuman age.
sunypress.edu/Books/L/Laug...
RIP Alphonso Lingis (November 23, 1933 - May 8, 2025), a brilliant philosopher, writer, and photographer.
One of my favorite books of his is The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
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One of my favorite books of his is The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
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May 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
RIP Alphonso Lingis (November 23, 1933 - May 8, 2025), a brilliant philosopher, writer, and photographer.
One of my favorite books of his is The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
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One of my favorite books of his is The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
t.co/MpSFMM6E51
Energy Humanities is a hub for new ideas and insights about climate, energy, and culture.
Starting in 2026 Energy Humanities will also be a new peer reviewed, open access journal with Open Library of Humanities.
www.energyhumanities.ca
Starting in 2026 Energy Humanities will also be a new peer reviewed, open access journal with Open Library of Humanities.
www.energyhumanities.ca
Energy Humanities Official Website | Petrocultures
The Energy Humanities is an emerging field of study that aims to understand how energy shapes society. It uses techniques from the humanities to explore connections between technology, culture, and en...
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May 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Energy Humanities is a hub for new ideas and insights about climate, energy, and culture.
Starting in 2026 Energy Humanities will also be a new peer reviewed, open access journal with Open Library of Humanities.
www.energyhumanities.ca
Starting in 2026 Energy Humanities will also be a new peer reviewed, open access journal with Open Library of Humanities.
www.energyhumanities.ca