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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. Library

What is wrong with peace that its inspiration does not endure and that it is almost untellable?

“The world seems to be sinking into dusk but I recount, as in the beginning, in my sing-song voice which sustains me saved by my tale from present confusion and troubles and protected for the future. Finished with the sweeping over the centuries with going and back forth, as in the past. Now I can […] Library

The Tao is simply an expression of first principles. For those who do not perceive its rationality, even universal consent could not prove it.

“A hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.” The Abolition of Man was first given as a series of lectures in 1943. The lectures dealt largely with the dangers of moral relativism – a subject that increasingly was to occupy Lewis’ mind as he noted the destructive trends emerging in the modern […] Story

The Tale of Two Tomorrows

A fable of the Little Girl, the Old Man and a sycamore seed turning in a glass jar: every life is like a seed, and this is a tale of two tomorrows. Poem

The Death of the Human Situation

Loneliness in the concrete maze of the city, where no-one next door is a neighbour.

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