On Being

One in ten Americans, and even more dramatically, about one in four women, will experience clinical depression at some point in their lives. We take an intimate look at the spiritual dimensions of this illness and its aftermath.

This unedited conversation with Parker Palmer comes from our produced show "Parker Palmer, Andrew Solomon, Anita Barrows on the Soul in Depression." See more at www.onbeing.org/program/soul-depression/224

This unedited conversation with Andrew Solomon comes from the produced show "Parker Palmer, Andrew Solomon, and Anita Barrows on the Soul in Depression."

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/soul-depression/224

This unedited conversation with Anita Barrows comes from our produced show "Parker Palmer, Andrew Solomon, and Anita Barrows on the Soul in Depression."

See more at www.onbeing.org/program/soul-depression/224

In this unedited conversation with James Moore, we'll take a fresh and thought-provoking look at Darwin's life and ideas. He did not argue against God but against a simple understanding of the world — its beauty, its brutality, and its unfolding creation. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/evolution-and-wonder-understanding-charles-darwin/94

We'll take a fresh and thought-provoking look at Darwin's life and ideas. He did not argue against God but against a simple understanding of the world — its beauty, its brutality, and its unfolding creation.

This unedited conversation comes from the produced show "Pankaj Mishra on the Buddha in the World." Journalist Pankaj Mishra pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's thought across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America. He emerged with a startling critique of Western political economy that is even more resonant today as he pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's core questions: Do desiring and acquiring make us happy? Does large-scale political change really address human suffering? See more at www.onbeing.org/program/buddha-world/186

This unheard cut on "The Backdrop of the Buddha" comes from our produced show 'Pankaj Mishra on the Buddha in the World." See more at www.onbeing.org/program/buddha-world/186

A few years ago, journalist Pankaj Mishra pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's thought across India and Europe, Afghanistan and America. He emerged with a startling critique of Western political economy that is even more resonant today as he pursued the social relevance of the Buddha's core questions: Do desiring and acquiring make us happy? Does large-scale political change really address human suffering?

In this unedited conversation poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht says that as a scholar she always noticed the "shadow history" of doubt out of the corner of her eye. She shows how non-belief, skepticism, and doubt have paralleled and at times shaped the world's great religious and secular belief systems. She suggests that only in modern time has doubt been narrowly equated with a complete rejection of faith, or a broader sense of mystery. See more at www.onbeing.org/program/history-doubt/51