As a species, we are prone to tribal us-versus-them thinking, to projecting our own shadow onto the hated “other.” Our challenge, for our collective survival and thriving, is to see the complexity and humanity in each other across religious, ethnic and national divides, and to understand the traumas shaping one another, which is especially hard when we are in a triggered trauma response ourselves. Image: Paul Nash, We Are Making a New World, 1918 (cropped). Collection: Imperial War Museums. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.Continue Reading