My barefoot world travels
Often people can't believe that I've been to 50 countries barefoot. "Airports and all?" they ask. I nod. I don't take many photos in airports, but here's one from 2012
A super Human feedback!
I've been writing so much in the second half of 2023, focusing on my new book in Slovenian, that I completely neglected my blog. Some days before Christmas, I received
This is what shaped Nara
"What choices in life made you who you are?" people sometimes ask me. Or, "Do you have a list of recommended books, lectures, videos?" To answer such questions once and
To Russia with love…
Sergey approached me for this interview before the Russian conflict with Ukraine but by the time we had it ready, it was clear it wouldn't be possible to publish it
Men are guardians of boundaries
Men are guardians of boundaries. A mature man knows how to open a woman's boundaries by opening his own. A mature man respects a woman in two ways: by crossing
Conservation of humanness
How to answer a question by a student from Mozambique, related to my book Human: Instructions for Use: "What do you thinking about the current world in the context of
The shackles of indoctorination
"You are a fart, and you believe to smell of violets." -- Wilhelm Reich Why not accompany Sunday’s workout by listening to the provocative, long-censored words of a controversial author
Urine to nuts experiment
Decades ago in rural Estonia, children (supposedly) had each their own hazel and they would pee under it. When the harvest came they would compete whose hazel bush yielded more
Overview of the book Human, part 3
Cultural oppression, as you've seen by now, can be anatomical and physiological. But political, economic, and religious oppression remains a problem too. It relies on our daily rituals and doesn't
Overview of the book Human, part 2
(Continued from Overview of the book Human, part 1.) It's been a hard day in the office. You're back home. You close the door, take off your shoes and lay