Gabriel Rosenstock gives a poetic response to twelve visionary paintings by the ‘myriad-minded’ writer and polymath, while Jane Clark and Peter Huitson give an overview of his life, work and legacy.

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I suddenly felt a powerful rush of energy emerge from my chest like nothing I had ever experienced before and could not even imagine possible.

Brilliant article introducing how to contextualize our human experience --- from First Great Decentering: Copernicus, to the Second Great Decentering: Darwin, to the Third Great Decentering "supplanting the figure of the human as the measure and master of all things".

The Mandelbrot set with its marvellous patterns may help people accept that there can be a different way of understanding reality. —Dr Richard Gault

The philosopher Charles Taylor’s new book, ostensibly a study of Romantic poetry and music, is about nothing less than modern life and its discontents, and how we might transcend them, Adam Gopnik writes.

Charlotte Maberly reviews a new book that argues that it is only by including human beings in nature that we can preserve it

Alan Ereira talks about the wisdom of the Kogi Indians and an important new UNESCO project in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia.

Excerpt from The Dark Nights of the Soul by Thomas Moore

Ancient concepts of the relational interdependence of humans and nature are being revived.

A plan to stop technology from destroying free will, creating social anomie, and wrecking democracy.

"The prospect of being paid for carbon sequestration while building a resilient landscape... will ensure its permanency."

The great darkness says to me what I often say to heartbroken friends — “I don’t know.”