Cameron Allan McKean
Cameron is a writer, editor and underwater anthropologist in Melbourne, Australia. After a decade in Tokyo working as an arts journalist, he began doctoral studies at Deakin University involving fieldwork with scientists and divers at coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Cameron is a former books and culture editor for The Japan Times, and a past contributor to CNN, ArtAsiaPacific, Dwell, Apartamento, and art-agenda.
Edited by Cameron Allan McKean
Rituals and celebrations
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More radical and practical than Stoicism – discover Shugendō
by Tim Bunting
Change and self-development
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Personal transformation can start with a whisper, not a bang
by Jennifer Windt
Transcendent experience
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Your consciousness has been completely transformed. Now what?
by Kevin Berryman
Play
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A game is not a game without a special kind of conflict
by Eric Zimmerman
Psychedelic-assisted therapy
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If you want psychedelic healing, your ego may need to die
by Natasha Mason, Athena Demertzi & Johannes G Ramaekers
Values and beliefs
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Do you have a duty to tell people they’re wrong about carrots?
by Giulia Terzian & M Inés Corbalán
Work and vocation
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Kafka warned us: surveillance turns the watched into watchers
by George Alliger
Emotion regulation
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Heartbreak is more than a metaphor. Are you at risk?
by Sian Harding
Meaning and the good life
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The immortalists have got it wrong – here’s why we need death
by Susan Cain
Stories and literature
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In Viking sagas, the ‘truth’ is a tangle of history and fiction
by Anatoly Liberman
Nature and the environment
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What does water want? Most humans seem to have forgotten
by Erica Gies
Sacred places
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Our children will need to find the beauty in our burnt planet
by Stephen J Pyne