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We live in a time of polycrisis. We are confronted with advancing fascism, the arrival of the climate crisis, Western complicity in a genocide, fruits and vegetables full of PFAS, and identities that turn out to be riddled with (internalized) sexism, racism, and homophobia. Where a future of stability and progress was once promised, all systems around us and within ourselves threaten to collapse. The human survival instinct (LION! DANGER! FIGHT OR FLIGHT! SURVIVE! CELEBRATE!) falls short in the complexity of contemporary problems. Our amygdalas* are becoming massively overstimulated, and we are stranded in a panic limbo.

Can we learn to accept the collapse of systems as a law of the cosmos, without ceasing our protest against injustice? Can we heal ourselves by truly feeling the crises, instead of merely naming them? Can we, in this way, finally complete our stress cycles, enabling us to better navigate a world ablaze? Can we fall in love with being human again? And: is *this* the moment to seek God? Cuz: never waste a good crisis.

The amygdala (plural: amygdalae, Greek: ἀμυγδαλή amygdalē = almond) is an almond-shaped nucleus of neurons. This circuit plays a central role in the processing of aversion stimuli and the regulation of fear. (source Wikipedia)

Trigger warning: strobe, loud sound