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. Video
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. Lecture
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. Lecture
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? 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. 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. Video
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. Video
In Conversation with Daniel Christian Wahl – Part 2: Hope or Despair
The second of three conversations with Daniel Christian Wahl: the meta-crisis as a crisis of thinking, bioregional specificity, regenerative agriculture, and the honest question of hope or despair. Video
Inner & Outer Landscapes in Farm Design
Recording and transcript of my contribution to the International Society for Circular Economy Conference at Exeter University's Penryn Campus, October 2022: inner and outer landscapes in farm design. 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? Video
Cultural Creatives, Regenerative Entrepreneurs, Profit & Purpose, Life & Death
A wide-ranging conversation with Ben Johnson for the Peripheral Thinking podcast on regenerative entrepreneurship, human cultures, and the life of their own that creative pursuits take on. Podcast
Alchemy of Wholeness – Holos Lecture – May 2021
A lecture for the Holos Earth Project on the alchemy of wholeness: the inner work of individuation and its bearing on how we tend the living world. Video