Charles Eisenstein – The Living Planet
Here is a recording of one of my favorite talks last year. It is the first I gave on this topic. The title I originally gave it was, “Come on, Earth isn’t REALLY alive, is it?”
Synchronicity and Emergent Self-Organisation
The notion that I entertain in this essay is that synchronicities are real and that they evince a hitherto unacknowledged instance of self-organization.
Nature’s Providence and the End of Smug
We have big heads. Large crania. These house big brains and also, it must be said, unlimited smug. Smug of such abundance that we tacitly promote ourselves as the greatest thing on two legs, the greatest species that ever ruminated on Earth.
Tipping in the Thunder (Gang Gang Dance in the duende)
In my personal musical cosmology, Gang Gang Dance are to the Aughts
(2000-2010) what Future Sound of London’s epic Life Forms double-LP was
to the mid-nineties, and what Floyd’s UmmaGumma was to the early 70s.
Mystified by Sophia
A delirious, whisky-enabled debate over the re-emergence of the Gnostic Goddess of Wisdom, by firelight…