Jay Griffiths

Writer, Freelance

Jay Griffiths is an award-winning author and contributor to The Guardian and Orion magazine. Her latest book is Tristimania: A Diary of Manic Depression (2016). She lives in Wales.

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Written by Jay Griffiths

Decorative offerings in woven baskets, featuring colourful flowers, leaves and incense sticks, placed on a stone surface outdoors.

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Rituals and celebrations

Daily grace

Everyday rituals are ephemeral prayers, a hint to the gods for protection, encircling life like a fragrant garland

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Politics and government

Fire, hatred and speed!

The glamour, bullying and violence of the libertarian alt-Right has a direct political ancestor, and it’s not Nazi Germany

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Two boys in white shirts with red collars sitting indoors looking thoughtful with a framed picture on the wall behind them.

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Education

Schooled in nature

There’s a way to teach children without colonising their minds: the lifelong way of the indigenous people of Mexico

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An actor on stage wearing a fur robe and a mask on his back, with arms raised in an expressive pose.

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Consciousness and altered states

Forests of the mind

What is the greatest human gift? It is metaphor, carrying a cargo of meaning across the oceans that divide us

Jay Griffiths