Our sacred world: enjoyed, denied and found again
I have long been fascinated by the way in which the dominant system tries to restrict our thinking on so many levels. We are always told that […]
spirituality
Becoming what we are meant to be
[Plus audio version] The embrace of our belonging to nature is an important step in restoring a sense of the sacred to our world, as we […]
The reenchantment of our world
[Plus audio version] “The only hope, or so it seems to me, lies in a reenchantment of the world”, writes Morris Berman in his book thusly […]
Coming back to life
[Plus audio version] Because the magic in our lives has been deliberately removed by the industrial slave-system, because our all-round withness has been deliberately stolen from us, we are […]
Rediscovering rootedness
[Plus audio version] It is not our belonging to nature that has been stolen from us by the industrial system, but our awareness of that belonging. The distinction is an […]
The “scientific” war on our freedom
[Plus audio version] If it was a certain kind of religious thinking that paved the road to this modern hell, then it was a certain kind of scientific thinking that […]
The disgodding of nature and our hearts
[Plus audio version] Max Weber, the subject of my last essay, was not alone in suspecting that certain religious beliefs – or the lack of them […]
The magic of meaning
[Plus audio version) Our ancestors enjoyed not just a very different way of living to ours today but also a very different way of being. Morris Berman […]
Gnosticism and the universal mother
[Plus audio version] “The birthing of humans by the Earth is a universally widespread belief. In numerous languages, we are named ‘born of the Earth’”. [1] […]
Dancing on the web of being
[Plus audio version] As the bulldozers of power and control progressively destroyed organic folk customs and beliefs across the world, some areas held out for longer. One such […]