August RainWe let the grass grow long hereit takes the rain infinitely gentleeach blade leads a drop to earthand springs back catching my eyeshere there everywherein an energy of dancethen the beat of rain like a drumthe sound hollow bird-song-silentSensation gives way to feelingthe river is an octave lowervision joins in the grasses dancereturns a…
“Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, Pale in her anger, washes all the air, That rheumatic diseases do abound. And thorough this distemperature we see The seasons alter…the spring, the summer, The childing autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world, By their increase, now knows not which is which. And…
More Than Imagining I Try To Be When I imagine the lakeand the fields and the treesand the murderous foxesand dead hensand the proud fatallywounded cockereland the snowdrops hiddenunder the Bay TreeI swim in the dead dry lakea fish now on dry stonethe walls of the smalldead-end roadsurrounding me walkingno hedgerows just rockand nettle roots…
Scott McVay, writing in the Prelude to “The Biophilia Hypothosis” (1993) edited by Kellert and Wilson says: “My conscious entry into the living tapestry of the Earth was through the whale tribe…My mentor was Ishmael, who on one occasion in “Moby Dick” was linked by a monkey-rope to Queequeg, a seasoned harpooner, standing on the…
For the link to this lecture go to my friend Matt Segal’s blog at http://footnotes2plato.com/2014/05/10/evan-thompson-ciis-tonight/ (The lecture was given at the Californian Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco.) My comments on this will be general and so I hope understandable even if you have not seen the presentation to some extent. My first worry…
The Journey of the Universe “The Journey of the Universe” is a book by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker (Yale, 2011). It is also a DVD based on the book and presented by Brian Swimme. See for further information: http://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org I will also put a link below to a presentation given by Brian…
I worry about the way Cosmology and its acompanying hidden Theological agenda at best distract us from a spiritual union with the planet, our home, and at worst alienate us from such a connection. More to follow: watch this space! 3 men go into a TV shop, where they buy a TV for £30 and…
The Hug of Gaia 