Participatory Consciousness
PARTICIPATORY CONSCIOUSNESS (an updated essay to address our urgent times). In this essay, written in 1997 during my years as doctoral candidate, I begin by…
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The Orwell School
THE ORWELL SCHOOL: How the Soul Unfolds into History In the 1960’s and seventies, there was a worldwide interest in alternative schools or “free schools”.…
Enantiodromia
There is a growing global mood today characterised variously as alarm, stress, anxiety, even dread—let’s call it tension! The root of the word is ten-,…
From Blood to Poetry
Two essays that address Rilke’s “blood speech”: “Is it possible that the mouth is only an instrument of the blood?” — Duino Elegies, Tenth Elegy…
Dreams & The Ineluctable Body
DREAMS AND THE INELUCTABLE BODY (with a new Preface 2025) Ineluctable: Not to be avoided or escaped. Latin: eluctari: to struggle out of;…
A New Soul Capacity
PSYCHIC TRANSFORMATION/FRESH EMPIRICAL PERCEPTION The laws of quantum physics (sub-atomic, invisible) and that of classical physics are dissociated and much effort is going towards a…