Eco-poetic thinker and writer
Marcus Demetrius Link
I am interested in the way we humans come to tell the stories we do about who we are, what the world is, and what our role in it might be. My work explores different ways of knowing, experiencing and being in relation with life. Over the years, I have organised these into what I call the Compass Rose of Consciousness, first articulated in my book Keystones in the Patterns of Place.
Featured Books
Keystones in the Patterns of Place
A Book About the Stories We Tell with Our Footprint
… even when we insist that we are not telling any stories about who we are, what the world is, and what our role in it might be. It is a book about what stories do to us and what we do to the world because of the stories we tell, and also about what a difference having a footprint can make.
- Format
- Hardback
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Keystone Publications
- Pages
- Approximately 600
- ISBN
- 978-1-0683788-0-5
- Date
- Forthcoming
A Boy Called Wild
An Autist’s Imaginal Memoir
A Boy Called Wild is a book of picking up the pieces and finding voice. Explored through dreams, short stories, poems, essays and psychological assessments, its pieces are not conceived as chapters of a book in the traditional sense, though together they make up an entire story. They are more like islands, fragments and splinters of consciousness, memory and exploration experienced, revisited and undertaken by the same human being. As the book develops, a landscape begins to take shape and forms into an entire inner world.
- Format
- Hardback
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Keystone Publications
- Pages
- Approximately 400
- ISBN
- 978-1-0683788-1-2
- Date
- Forthcoming
In Print · The Complete Quantum Poetry
Inkblot Moon
Four volumes of poetry written across a decade, traced along the long arc of a life lived on the edge between the inner and the outer.
- Format
- Hardback
- Edition
- Second edition
- Publisher
- Keystone Publications
- Pages
- Approximately 170
- ISBN
- 978-1-0683788-2-9
- Date
- Forthcoming
See all books, including the four individual Quantum Poetry volumes →
Featured Posts, Essays, Poems & Talks
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Talk Keystones in the Patterns of Place: Cultivating a Regenerative Presence on Earth
A preview of my forthcoming book Keystones in the Patterns of Place, given at the Holos Earth Academy Centenary Festival of Holism and Evolution: how the West lost its faculty of orientation, and the Compass Rose of Consciousness as a way to find it again, by way of C.S. Lewis, William Blake and Iain McGilchrist.
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Talk The Role of Spirituality in the Evolution of Consciousness – Part 1: Spiritual Intelligence and Consciousness from Ken Wilber's Perspective
Part one of a two-part Holos Earth Project talk: spiritual intelligence and the evolution of consciousness read through Ken Wilber's AQAL model, and the question of what matures beyond the top of Spiral Dynamics.
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Talk Could our future depend on relearning what it means to be indigenous?
A talk for the Positive Nature Network, May 2023: could our future depend on relearning what it means to be indigenous — to belong to a place rather than to own it?
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Talk Surrendering to the mystery
A conversation with Ben Johnson on self-discovery and expression: letting go of the 'doer', being present and authentic even when it is uncomfortable, and surrendering to the mystery of a creative life.
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Talk Humans as a Beneficial Keystone Species on Earth
A Holos Earth Project talk, September 2022: can human beings become a beneficial keystone species — agents at the edge of becoming in the unfolding of greater wholeness, life and beauty?
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Poem Moulting
On parting as its own kind of death, and how keenly the loss is felt at first.
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Essay Wholeness is the Fool’s Business – Part III
Part III of The Way of the Fool: why wholeness, not cleverness, is the Fool's true work — and the inner guides who teach what no human master can.
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Poem My Gallows Star
A rope of light let down from a distant star, and the darkness that both lights it and holds us apart.
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My work builds on other thinkers and writers including
Iain McGilchrist · Tyson Yunkaporta · Lyla June Johnston · Henri Corbin · E.F. Schumacher · Rainer Maria Rilke · and many more
Recurring subjects and threads across my writing, including
Individuation · Brokenness · The Boy · The Self · Wholeness · Soul · Consciousness · Depth Psychology · Time and Meaning · Transformation · the full index