We are on a collision course with the ecological context, and facing total civilisational collapse unless we act fast, and drastically change how we interact, with self, other and the more-than-human-world. Reviewing our notions of agency, and thus free will, in the light of the findings of evolutionary biology, suggest we are entirely enmeshed, subject to the cause-effect chain reaction of probabalistic natural laws which run from the quark-sphere to the quality of our relationship with climate and the biosphere. This podcast is about how we shift our perspective on these relationships.
Quite literally, philosophy means love of wisdom. We seek to understand fundamental truths about ourselves, others, the world, and so on. What is free will? What is the mesh? We are the mesh! What mi…
This is an extract from my book, "Love is Green: compassion as responsibility in the ecological emergency". I've read a short section here on how we might understand entire systems rather than just i…
An important idea that is central to Dōgen Zenji's Shōbōgenzō, practice realisation summarises an approach to existence which recognises that what we do, from cooking to cleaning, from conflict to co…
There is no easy way out of the predicament we are in: we are in an ecological emergency, and we are inevitably going to die. There are some similarities between our responses to these two inevitabil…