* * * ONLINE COMMUNITY | What & who I'm reading & listening to * * *
A selection of online sites
A selection of online sites
THE LISTENING GIFT: For Rilke it is the dark matter of conversation, the white space around a poem. For Rilke, listening is receiving the divine [AEON | Essay by Faith Lawrence]
Reflections on Jean Luc Nancy's 'LISTENING'
RUPERT SHELDRAKE & JILL PURCE | Morphic Resonance, vocal techniques, overtone chanting, ancestral trauma healing...
JILL's website
RUPERT's website
STEPHEN JENKINSON | Orphan Wisdom | The Scriptorium
BÁYÓ AKÓMOLÁFÉ
"There are things we must do, sayings we must say, thoughts we must think, that look nothing like the images of success that have so thoroughly possessed our visions of justice. May this new decade be remembered as the decade of the strange path, of the third way, of the broken binary, of the traversal disruption, the kairotic moment, the posthuman movement for emancipation, the gift of disorientation that opened up new places of power, and of slow limbs." Báyó Akómoláfé
THIS IS VOX CLAMANTIS
BECOMING STILLNESS | Fr. Richard Rohr
THE EMERALD | Joshua Michael Schrei
ART2LIFE | A Podcast for the creatively curious
We don’t always know where exactly our creative path will take us. Thankfully there are clues, breadcrumbs that we can glean from others who share this journey. Each week we'll be sharing stories, insights, and inspiring talks with creatives from all walks of life from painters, writers, filmmakers, thought leaders, and all those super passionate about sharing their wisdom of self-discovery. So whether you are new to art, an established artist, or just creatively curious, this podcast is a weekly invitation to discern, discover, and then dive deeper into what brings you alive.
A PLACE CALLED HOME | Dougald Hine
THE HOUSE of BEASTS & VINES | Martin Shaw
CENTRE FOR ACTION & CONTEMPLATION
TUNING to the MYSTICS | Jim Finlay
POEM-A-DAY | Academy of American Poets
THE AWAKENED EYE | Miriam Louisa Simons
EMERGENCE MAGAZINE | "It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality."
ORION MAGAZINE | Essays, Poetry, Visual Art, Fiction, Review, Conversations
NEW YORK ZEN CENTRE
THE MARGINALIAN | Maria Popova (orig. Brainpickings)
THE ABBEY OF MISRULE | Paul Kingsnorth
CHARLES EISENSTEIN
LEWIS HYDE | The Gift
NEW INTERNATIONALIST
"New Internationalist magazine offers sharp analysis and global coverage of today’s most urgent issues. From conflict and migration, to climate change and democracy, we dig that bit deeper to place headline stories in their proper political, social and economic context."
THE DARK MOUNTAIN PROJECT
"All around us, shifts are underway which suggest that our whole way of living is already passing into history.’ Not only the destabilisation of the project of economic globalisation which had dominated the preceding decades, but the fraying of the ecological foundations as a result of industrial exploitation. Faced with this unravelling, the Dark Mountain Manifesto calls us to question the stories our societies like to tell about the world and our place within it: the myth of progress, the myth of human separation from nature, the myth of civilisation. And it claims a particular role for storytellers and culturemakers in a time when the stories we live by have become untenable. This is the project of ‘Uncivilised’ art and writing set out in the invitation which closes the manifesto." Dougald Hine & Paul Kingsnorth
ORPHAN WISDOM | Stephen Jenkinson
"The home of Stephen Jenkinson’s writing and teaching work. Orphan Wisdom is a teaching house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is a redemptive project that comes from where we come from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time we won’t see."
THE EMERALD | Joshua Schrei
A HISTORY OF KINDNESS | Kirstie McKinnon
BELONGING TO THE WILD | Craig Foster (My Octopus Teacher) | A conversation with Tami Simon of SOUNDS TRUE
GROW MERCY | Stephen T Berg
"Grow Mercy is about learning mercy. In a world where reciprocal violence and environmental violence is humanity’s greatest threat, growing mercy is the only way that ensures our survival, our evolution, our salvation, that is, our call toward creation."
WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS | The Alchemy of Literature | essay by Guadalupe Nettel
"... Although we might belong to different cultures or different moments in time, human beings are not so different from one another. Literature is a highly subtle code that manages to open, if only for a moment, the most closed-off hearts and minds. It has the power to connect us beyond ideologies, through our most basic emotions such as fear, humiliation, tenderness, suffering, and the compassion that can arise from it. It has the power to nudge us into the intimate sphere of other people and other communities, even enemy communities, as Amos Oz suggests, to make us share in their story, their daily lives, their fears, their desires, their perspectives, their experiences, and, especially, their pain.
It seems to me that one of fiction’s most remarkable qualities is that it allows us access to subjectivity like no other art form. Human beings have a highly intimate relationship with words. We think in words, we dream in words. Words, when well chosen, can allow us to construct images, to express emotions, to name things, and to describe those things that cannot be named."
Reflections on Jean Luc Nancy's 'LISTENING'
RUPERT SHELDRAKE & JILL PURCE | Morphic Resonance, vocal techniques, overtone chanting, ancestral trauma healing...
JILL's website
RUPERT's website
STEPHEN JENKINSON | Orphan Wisdom | The Scriptorium
BÁYÓ AKÓMOLÁFÉ
"There are things we must do, sayings we must say, thoughts we must think, that look nothing like the images of success that have so thoroughly possessed our visions of justice. May this new decade be remembered as the decade of the strange path, of the third way, of the broken binary, of the traversal disruption, the kairotic moment, the posthuman movement for emancipation, the gift of disorientation that opened up new places of power, and of slow limbs." Báyó Akómoláfé
THIS IS VOX CLAMANTIS
BECOMING STILLNESS | Fr. Richard Rohr
THE EMERALD | Joshua Michael Schrei
ART2LIFE | A Podcast for the creatively curious
We don’t always know where exactly our creative path will take us. Thankfully there are clues, breadcrumbs that we can glean from others who share this journey. Each week we'll be sharing stories, insights, and inspiring talks with creatives from all walks of life from painters, writers, filmmakers, thought leaders, and all those super passionate about sharing their wisdom of self-discovery. So whether you are new to art, an established artist, or just creatively curious, this podcast is a weekly invitation to discern, discover, and then dive deeper into what brings you alive.
A PLACE CALLED HOME | Dougald Hine
THE HOUSE of BEASTS & VINES | Martin Shaw
CENTRE FOR ACTION & CONTEMPLATION
TUNING to the MYSTICS | Jim Finlay
POEM-A-DAY | Academy of American Poets
THE AWAKENED EYE | Miriam Louisa Simons
EMERGENCE MAGAZINE | "It has always been a radical act to share stories during dark times. They are regenerative spaces of creation and renewal. As we experience a loss of sacred connection to the earth, we share stories that explore the timeless connections between ecology, culture, and spirituality."
ORION MAGAZINE | Essays, Poetry, Visual Art, Fiction, Review, Conversations
NEW YORK ZEN CENTRE
THE MARGINALIAN | Maria Popova (orig. Brainpickings)
THE ABBEY OF MISRULE | Paul Kingsnorth
CHARLES EISENSTEIN
LEWIS HYDE | The Gift
NEW INTERNATIONALIST
"New Internationalist magazine offers sharp analysis and global coverage of today’s most urgent issues. From conflict and migration, to climate change and democracy, we dig that bit deeper to place headline stories in their proper political, social and economic context."
THE DARK MOUNTAIN PROJECT
"All around us, shifts are underway which suggest that our whole way of living is already passing into history.’ Not only the destabilisation of the project of economic globalisation which had dominated the preceding decades, but the fraying of the ecological foundations as a result of industrial exploitation. Faced with this unravelling, the Dark Mountain Manifesto calls us to question the stories our societies like to tell about the world and our place within it: the myth of progress, the myth of human separation from nature, the myth of civilisation. And it claims a particular role for storytellers and culturemakers in a time when the stories we live by have become untenable. This is the project of ‘Uncivilised’ art and writing set out in the invitation which closes the manifesto." Dougald Hine & Paul Kingsnorth
ORPHAN WISDOM | Stephen Jenkinson
"The home of Stephen Jenkinson’s writing and teaching work. Orphan Wisdom is a teaching house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is a redemptive project that comes from where we come from. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time we won’t see."
THE EMERALD | Joshua Schrei
A HISTORY OF KINDNESS | Kirstie McKinnon
BELONGING TO THE WILD | Craig Foster (My Octopus Teacher) | A conversation with Tami Simon of SOUNDS TRUE
GROW MERCY | Stephen T Berg
"Grow Mercy is about learning mercy. In a world where reciprocal violence and environmental violence is humanity’s greatest threat, growing mercy is the only way that ensures our survival, our evolution, our salvation, that is, our call toward creation."
WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS | The Alchemy of Literature | essay by Guadalupe Nettel
"... Although we might belong to different cultures or different moments in time, human beings are not so different from one another. Literature is a highly subtle code that manages to open, if only for a moment, the most closed-off hearts and minds. It has the power to connect us beyond ideologies, through our most basic emotions such as fear, humiliation, tenderness, suffering, and the compassion that can arise from it. It has the power to nudge us into the intimate sphere of other people and other communities, even enemy communities, as Amos Oz suggests, to make us share in their story, their daily lives, their fears, their desires, their perspectives, their experiences, and, especially, their pain.
It seems to me that one of fiction’s most remarkable qualities is that it allows us access to subjectivity like no other art form. Human beings have a highly intimate relationship with words. We think in words, we dream in words. Words, when well chosen, can allow us to construct images, to express emotions, to name things, and to describe those things that cannot be named."