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human nature
Human nature is the set of fundamental characteristics, behaviors, and capacities shared across humanity—including capacity for compassion, judgment, desire, and moral complexity.
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In the Psycheverse
Psyche treats human nature not as fixed or wholly good or bad, but as fundamentally contradictory and worthy of compassionate examination. She interrogates judgment itself as a social force, reflects on why people reject kindness, and uses myth and personal experience to argue that understanding others requires holding their darkness and light simultaneously.
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How online attacks become life-ruining
Psyche discusses the destructive nature of online harassment, targeting, and coordinated attacks that result in real-world consequences like job loss and social destruction.
Early Morning with the Cult! Open Panel and FUN
Psyche delivers a solo, spoken-word style open panel discussion, exploring themes of survival, human nature, and the digital space, in an early morning episode of the Cult of Psyche podcast.
How three brothers outsmarted the fox spirit
This episode of the Cult of Psyche podcast features Trix recounting a folk tale about three brothers who outsmart a fox spirit through clever misdirection. The brothers use everyday objects to create the illusion of a fearsome creature, deceiving the fox spirit and causing it to flee.
🐇 Rabbit Hole
Topics that frequently appear alongside human nature
survivalSurvival is the state or struggle of remaining alive, often involving physical, emotional, or psychological endurance through hardship, scarcity, or threat. It encompasses both literal life-or-death circumstances and the internal reckoning required to persist through them.folk talescompassionCompassion is the capacity to recognize suffering in others and respond with empathy, kindness, and a desire to alleviate that suffering—a foundational ethical principle across spiritual and philosophical traditions.cunningCunning is intelligence applied through deception, strategy, and resourcefulness—the use of wit and trickery to achieve goals or survive danger.fearFear is a psychological and emotional response to perceived threat or danger that can shape behavior, decision-making, and social dynamics.
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