One of Kazimierz Dabrowski's students explains the workings of the third factor of development and compares it to other frameworks. The post The Drive to Achieve Personality: Dabrowski’s Third Factor in Context appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
Richard Dawkins and Scott Barry Kaufman are both seeing what our editor in chief is seeing: a shift in culture that it's up to us to resist. The post Navigating the Hypersensitive Seas appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
One of the great essayists of the early twentieth century reminds our readers, whom we trust will appreciate it, of the beauty to be found in ordinary things. The post A Piece of Chalk appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
Their kids found school intellectually lacking and socially fraught. Now these parents are working together to build a social and academic space that meets their profoundly gifted children's uncommon needs. The post Meeting the Gifted Child’s Chronically Unmet Needs: The BRIGHTLinks Story appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
Alumni of the postgraduate School of Thinking wondered why they didn't learn this stuff earlier. A new school for the gifted is launching to save the next generation some time and trouble. The post School Reimagined: Introducing Buckminster College appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
Is there a place for an incorrigible questioner in a church? Our editor in chief, who is not temperamentally inclined to faith, looks for some way to tap into the wisdom and belonging that some of her favorite people have found in organized religion. The post The Incorrigible Questioner and the Search for Spiritual Belonging appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
With our modern minds, we've grown used to having walls between us and virtually everyone else—except for a few places where the world pours through our buffers and overwhelms us. How can we recalibrate? Adam Carrington offers ideas on how we might find balance and growth. The post Buffered or Porous: Recalibrating Our Mental Filters appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
The common defence of the family is that, amid the stress and fickleness of life, it is peaceful, pleasant, and at one. But there is another defence of the family which is possible, and to me evident; this defence is that the family is not peaceful and not pleasant and not at one. The post On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
Spiral Dynamics, argues the co-leader of Third Factor's new spiritual development group, offers a framework for making sense of positive disintegration -- as he illustrates through his own experience of disintegrating out of his own fundamentalist church's hierarchy of values. The post A Spiritual Journey appeared first on Third Factor.| Third Factor
Third Factor's spiritual director, Alexis Obernauer, tells us how her own spiritual journey enabled her to reintegrate and why she's co-leading a community here that she hopes will help others to do the same.| Third Factor