If we think of lonely people as a public health crisis then their disease is now twice as prevalent as cancer and growing rapidly.

"We have survived for so long because the environmental devastation we are experiencing today is an exception, not a human norm. We are deeply wired to connect. We build and flock to cities, construct monumental temples to gather in, and endlessly write, dance, and sing about the experience of relationship because for us to be in relationship is simultaneously to meet our need for survival, create possibility in our lives, and access the divine. Give us food and we will host a feast. Give us a drum and we will dance together. Give us a tool and we will put our enormously powerful brains together in community to figure out how to use it to create the conditions for connection."

"Carry these abilities forward into modern times and we should be living in a golden age of connection. We are not." - David Jay

BOOK EXCERPT: Connection Is Our Lost Superpower

If we think of lonely people as a public health crisis then their disease is now twice as prevalent as cancer and growing rapidly.

The day that bell hooks met Thich Nhat Hanh to talk about practicing love in a culture of domination.

We've lost touch with the fact that the payoffs to our most meaningful endeavors unfold over years and generations, not news cycles.

Our stories about the future affect our behavior in the present.

We need a new narrative that can transmit values, orient education, and guide institutions toward sustaining the Earth community.