Monthly Archives: November 2020

26th of November, World Olive Tree Day, a special day dedicated to a very special tree, we at Rescogita, as a company grounded on ecopsychology, can only honour this day and tree, a true friend to humanity since the mists of time. A tree with its previous olives and grey-green leafs became so close toContinue reading “Extending an Olive Branch”

On 25th November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and we at Rescogita would like to offer you the point of view of ecopsychology on this problem.  What are the roots and origin of this violence? Referring to scholar Jared Diamond, we are looking at some 12.000 years ago (aContinue reading “Violence against women”

Childhood is the phase of life where who we are, our purpose and mission into this world sets its root in order to guide us through adulthood. Yet how fast we dismiss that period of life, perhaps through rights of passage which relegate those experiences and learnings into a past both caged and locked. KeepingContinue reading “The Universal Child”

Philosophy is the lighthouse that lead the ship of humanity into the bay that sparkled evolution and civilisation. It is a landmark where daily survival started to be more or less taken for granted, and in that safety humanity could stop, look around at the nature and society around, explore past and future, ask questions,Continue reading “Do You Know How much you Love the Science of Sciences”

The word Tolerance comes from Latin – Tolerantia – To endure Today’s world seems to have evolved beyond the word “tolerance”, new adjectives have taken its place with the intention to create more positive connotations. Acceptance is one of those words, for example, whereas tolerance is slowly becoming an archaic term for a time beyondContinue reading “The Endurance of Tolerance”

 Science is a word that comes from Latin which means both knowledge and collective knowledge, upon hearing the word collective we understand that it is something that belongs to everybody and therefore should exist for the benefit of all, is that right?   From the enlightenment until 1914 generally society had a positive outlook towards scienceContinue reading “Peace and Development accomplished by Science”

While hoping that every viewer and reader firmly condemns warfare and armed conflict, attention needs to be brought to a quite bad habit of ours; while many condemn the pollution and environmental harm brought by industry, agriculture and other side (or direct) effects that modern economy have on the biosphere, few mention the environmental damageContinue reading “Warfare’s casualties beyond humanity”

Why do all cultures around the world celebrate death and have rituals in each of their faiths and beliefs to commemorate the trespassed? Christian, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Animists and more have in their tradition a specific time in the calendar for commemoration and acknowledgement of death, mostly (not all) placed between what we know asContinue reading “The Living Dead”