Seize the Day’s ‘Frakka Hakka’
Filmed in Balcombe at the controversial Cuadrilla fracking site in West Sussex, Seize the Day’s ‘Frakka Hakka’ song is performed by the band and protestors at the Balcombe Community Defenders Camp.
Transformational Heresy
Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture Magazine, uncovers some contemporary heresies within our society’s worldview. Unpicking the current, destructive mythologies of our time, she believes, could support social and ecological transformation.
Split This Rock: socially engaged poetry in the US
Split This Rock explores and celebrates the many ways that poetry can act as an agent for change: reaching across differences, considering personal and social responsibility, asserting the centrality of the right to free speech, bearing witness to the diversity and complexity of human experience through language, imagining a better world.
Culture of Resistance
In this interview with Lierre Keith, the American environmental activist and author discusses ecocide and industrial civilisation; liberalism and radicalism in the context of social change; and a vision of the urgent need for a co-ordinated resistance movement.
The Search for Consciousness
Cynthia Sue Larson Interviews Seán Ó Nualláin
One Magisterium: How Nature Knows through Us – a review
For the first time, an author with peer-reviewed published work in neuroscience, comparative religion, theoretical biology and many facets of cognitive science takes on the Big Issues of science and religion, as well as the current paralysis in real innovation. Seán Ó Nualláin’s latest book, One Magisterium, is here reviewed by the eminent scientist and thinker, Stuart Kauffman.
Transformation/Transmutation: a discussion between Christopher Bucklow and Philip Kime
“Artists often have an interest in alchemy because it is a useful metaphor for inner transformation” says artist, Christopher Bucklow, in his discussion with Jungian Analyst, Philip Kime. Together, they discuss the idea of alchemy in art and psychology. Where does alchemy sit in the modern world?
David Bohm, Roger Penrose and the Search for Non-local Causality
Tony Robbin, artist, writer and pioneer of the computer visualisation of four-dimensional geometry, explores the life and work of David Bohm and Roger Penrose and how their research met in the search for non-local causality.
The Alchemy of Creativity: Art, Consciousness and Embodiment
How can you define consciousness? In his article, F David Peat looks to art and music for answers and explores how consciousness may not limited to the mind, but the physicality of the entire body. Drawing on the personal experiences from artists and musicians such as Anish Kapoor and Michael Tippet to the physicist David Bohm, he explores how the creative process resembles an alchemical cycle whereby creative ‘gold’ is generated from the mind and the body.
Complexity and Theological Perspectives
Does self-organisation pose a threat to theology? Or is God the facilitator of a complex world? And is there a role for thought experiments in religion? Niels Henrik Gregerson, Professor of Systematic Theology at University of Copenhagen, discusses religion’s place in a scientific world and how both science and religion could benefit from a combined approach.