Social Brain

Je suis Charlie? Tiptoeing into the debate

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16 Jan 2015

Amanda Kanojia

I was in Paris last weekend – a very pleasant thing to do.

Quote Bait: Twenty thoughts on spirituality

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05 Jan 2015

Jonathan Rowson

Spiritualise: Revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges deals with a weighty subject and the overall process of producing the report involved about 300 people over two years, so it’s not surprising the final report is relatively long – about 40,000 words over 92 pages; it’s half a book really. (Now there’s a thought…)

Mind, Society, and Behaviour: The World Bank’s 2015 World Development Report.

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17 Dec 2014

Nathalie Spencer

Remember that report that said nobody reads reports? Well here's one from the same organisation that is likely to buck the trend...

What is 'the soul' and why does it matter?

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14 Dec 2014

Jonathan Rowson

The following transcription came from a speech that formed part of a series of six public events within RSA Social Brain Centre's project: Spirituality, Tools of the Mind, and the Social Brain. The final report of this project, outlined here will be published later this month.

Spiritualise: Revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges

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27 Nov 2014

Jonathan Rowson

Today, after two years of preparation and a pause for Christmas dinner, we are publishing: Spiritualise: revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges.

Towards a post-extrinsic society

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26 Nov 2014

Jonathan Rowson

The public realm faces significant challenges that cannot be adequately addressed by instrumental, utilitarian thinking. By public realm I mean the political economy and all the educational, commercial, civic and media institutions related to it; all of which, of course, have human beings inside them.

RSA Event: Love, Death, Self, and Soul

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20 Nov 2014

Last night’s RSA event examined a profound yet largely unexplored possibility in the 21st century: integrating a modern preconception of spirituality (grounded in an increasingly sophisticated understanding of human nature) into the public realm.

I don’t believe in climate change…

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03 Nov 2014

Rowan Conway

...but to clarify, I don’t “believe” in anthropogenic climate change, because it is not a religion.

The Age of Awareness

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20 Oct 2014

Coaching. Psychotherapy. Meditation. Spirituality. Self-improvement. Self-love. What do these seemingly different collective trends have in common?