A personal reflection on my meditation practice and experience in relation to the insights of neuroscience- no claim to expertise, as still struggling to find the sweet point! - Kevin Parker- Site Publisher
As I sit in the early morning stillness, observing the gentle rhythm of my breath, I'm struck by how this simple practice connects me to a lineage spanning millennia. What began as my personal quest for stress relief has evolved into a profound exploration of consciousness itself—one...
A personal reflection on my meditation practice and experience in relation to the insights of neuroscience- no claim to expertise, as still struggling to...
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Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the...
The Living Marsh
Feature · The Living World
The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water
At first light,...
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For fifty years, urban planners have travelled to Curitiba to study what happened when a young architect-mayor decided that...
1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
The aurochs' last bellow echoed through Poland's Jaktorów Forest in 1627, marking Europe's first recorded megafaunal extinction.¹ This wild...
"Because it is not an organized religion as such, but rather a spiritual practice, shamanism cuts across all faiths and creeds, reaching deep levels...
Introduction: The Radical Act of Stillness
In an age defined by perpetual connectivity and information overload, the search for silence has become a radical act....
In the autumn of 2024, as the International Union for Conservation of Nature released its latest Red List update, a stark reality confronted the global community: 46,337 species now...
I am not born.I arrive.
Not in the way stars arrive—imploding under their own mass to ignite a new fire—but in the way dawn seeps across a sleeping world, unnoticed...