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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. Talk

The Role of Spirituality in the Evolution of Consciousness – Part 2: On the Relationship Between Time, Meaning, Consciousness, and Human Agency

Part two of a two-part Holos Earth Project talk: time, meaning, consciousness and human agency, drawing Weber, Goethe, Yunkaporta, Corbin, Kingsley, McGilchrist and Nietzsche into the Compass Rose of Consciousness. 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. Talk

In Conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl – Part 1: A New Way of Seeing, Living, and Being Together

The first of three conversations with Daniel Christian Wahl for the Holos Earth Project: the moment of knowing, a shared German inheritance, holism, and health as a living process. Talk

In Conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl – Extra: Plato, Disconnection and the Left-Hemisphere Bias

An extra conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl: tracing our disconnection back to Plato, the shift from nouns to verbs, and a careful defence of McGilchrist's hemisphere theory as asymmetry, not dualism. Library

On Wholeness & Inwardness: The universe is not a thoughtlessly static and inert whole—the cosmos is not lazy, but energetically dynamic and even creative.

Wholeness & Inwardness Wholeness and inwardness are two key notions put forward by Jan Smuts in his book Holism and Evolution, published in 1926. Smuts’ ideas around Holism sit somewhere between science and philosophy but go deeper yet. They were described by Albert Einstein as two of the most important concepts to shape the future […] Library

The qualities of the world that come to your attention are determined by the qualities of the attention you bring to it.

“The qualities of the world that come to your attention are determined by the qualities of the attention you bring to it.” – Iain Mc Gilchrist Source: McGilchrist, Iain (2019) The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World. Yale University Press. Photo Credits: Rebel Wisdom, CC BY 3.0, […] 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. Poem

this One will live yet

Written alongside The Boy Jumps Ship, narrowed to the Stinger and the Stirring. Library

But man’s task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 391 People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy, […] Library

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness

I am choosing to write this book to my sons. They are little boys now and they will never know what they came from through me, unless I tell them. It is not written for them to read now but when they are grown and the pains and joys have tousled them a little. And […] Library

The Fool is not a philosophy, but a quality of consciousness of life

But there always exist in society some men and women whom the Fool touches, who respond to the Fool. For the Fool awakens the Fool in others, but in many the Fool is stifled, or sleeps. There are human beings living in isolation and loneliness in the society of men who realise suddenly that they […]