March 5 2026

Good News for Humankind 🌏

The world's latest positive milestones for climate, justice, peace, health, and more

Giant tortoises return to Galápagos island after 180 years

For the first time in 180 years, giant tortoises are once again roaming Floreana Island in the Galápagos.

The native species was hunted to extinction in the mid-nineteenth century, but scientists recently discovered descendants living on a neighboring island. Following a highly successful, decade-long captive breeding program, conservationists and local park rangers have officially released 158 juvenile tortoises back into their ancestral homeland.

As vital ecosystem engineers, these young tortoises will disperse seeds and restore habitats, marking a monumental first step in a broader project to revive the island's natural biodiversity.

Antihero Project 🕊️

The universal self and the unique self

Most spiritual traditions posit that we are all part of (or that we all are) the divine oneness of the universe, whether we call it God, Brahman, the Tao, Spirit, or something else.

When we truly become present, we lose attachment to our sense of separateness. We see that we are but one stream flowing down the mountainside—born from, connected to, and soon rejoining the endless ocean of being.

We are all well served by cultivating this presence, acknowledging and inhabiting that which is beyond this "separate" self of ours. This is how we liberate ourselves from needless suffering. This is how we ground ourselves in a foundation of peace.

And yet, perhaps paradoxically, some of the most meaningful moments of our lives often come from better understanding, embracing, actualizing, and expressing our unique selves.

Yes, we are but a stream flowing into the ocean. But before we find our way to the sea, we rejoice in feeling ourselves flowing down the riverbanks, basking in awe of the landscapes around us, how they guide us, and how we help shape them.

Our presence is perhaps the truest, most lasting us. It is the water that flows through our stream of being, all other streams, the ocean, and the clouds in an endless cycle.

But we might consider our genius, our creative essence, to be the most unique us. It is the contours and depths of the stream, the aspect that exists only at this moment in this one place in the whole world.

The hero is obsessed with the unique self. They seek to prove its specialness.

The ascetic shuns and denies this unique self. They seek to prove it is an illusion.

The antihero embraces both the universal self and the unique self as real; both the source of unspeakable beauty, wonder, and joy; both essential to their sense of fulfillment and contribution.

Love,
Peter

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