Jon Berends kicked off our Winter Learning Series, Unreliable Instincts, with a talk titled, “Hello Darkness, My Old Friend.” Here this bonus conversation where Jon and Madi talk about darkness and light, the role of knowing history and how it shapes our imaginations, and how people actually change.

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References from the Conversation:

• Iain McGilchrist
• C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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