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Darcia Narvaez is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. Her prior careers include professional musician, classroom music teacher, business owner, seminarian and middle school Spanish teacher. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture and moral character in children and adults. She integrates neurobiological, clinical, developmental and education sciences in her theories and research about moral development. She publishes extensively on moral development, parenting and education. Recently she has been studying the Evolved Developmental Niche (nest) and how it influences moral development, moral capacities and preferences. She hosts interdisciplinary conferences at the University of Notre Dame regarding early experience, flourishing and evolution. In 2016, she organizes a conference on Sustainable Wisdom: Integrating Indigenous KnowHow for Global Flourishing. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles. Her recent book, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom (2014), won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. She is executive editor of the Journal of Moral Education. Her blog at Psychology Today is called Moral Landscapes
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 15, 2022 Getting Back to the Feeling of Oneness
Feeling oceanic connectedness is part of normal human nature.
Freud thought growing up was moving away from oneness to individual ego consciousness.
Ancestral societies bathed in oceanic consciousness, guiding their environmental behavior.
Oceanic consciousness, represented as one mind, has increasing data support.
SHARE Sunday, January 26, 2020 Self Actualization: Individualistic or Holistic Connection?
Interestingly, Maslow's self actualization looks different from our ancestral pathway. Jon Young and colleagues (2010; 2019) collaborate with the San Bushmen of the Kalahari, a band culture that has been around for at least 140,000 years ). The Bushmen approach self-actualization in ways that are reflected in the writings and advice of indigenous peoples around the world. Their approach may be most relevant today.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 26, 2019 Broken Eagle Wing: Mending Worldview
In the late 18th century, the newly-arrived Spanish quickly set up missions in California, and began forcibly taking Ohlone subjects into the missions ostensibly to convert them. Yet the Ohlone were held against their will and forced to labor for the Spanish, who separated men and women, lashing and hitting them when they refused to act as the missionaries pleased. What was wrong with those missionaries?
SHARE Wednesday, December 21, 2016 Facing Threat with Integrity
Larry Colburn, who just died, helped stop the My Lai massacre in 1968. We can learn two lessons from him.