The “Mercator” projection is the map of the world most of us are familiar with, and many of us may be aware that it distorts the shape and size of the continents. If you don’t know about this, the best example from the map below is the size of Greenland vs. the size of Africa. In fact, Greenland is not anywhere near as large as Africa––it is 14x smaller!

To capture this, and to remind us just how the spatial and size, this map also includes a circle that represents a 5,000km radius, with Paris at the center. The fact that the shape on the map doesn’t look like a circle shows JUST HOW distorted this very comfortable, Western-centric, Northern-centric and Euro-centric view of the world is. 

Its funny – we spend part of our lives learning, and then we spend even more time un-learning, and then learning again.

Allan T. Georgia, M.Div., M.T.S., PhD

Sometimes it is hard to tap into our spiritual selves or find time to nurture our intellectual curiosity. Here is a section that reflects on some nourishing materials from around the web and related media channels in order to get us thinking, get us feeling, and get us reflecting on the lives we are living in this big, beautiful world. **Some Adult/Mature Themes May Appear in Links and Other Attached Material**