After the Fall: Regaining Our Kinship with All Beings

In this conversation, Stephan talks with psychologist and author Steve Taylor about the roots of human suffering in a sense of alienation and disconnection from the natural world that began around 6,000 years ago and has led to the primacy of ego-centered behavior in human affairs and the proliferation of narcissism and psychopathy in the social and political sphere. According to Taylor, we experienced a fall from grace around the time of Adam and Eve when we lost the nondual sense of oneness with our environment that many indigenous peoples still consider their natural state. Nowadays, turmoil and trauma are...