Summary
This essay undertakes a comprehensive comparison and contrast of Shamanism and Panpsychism, two distinct yet conceptually resonant frameworks concerning the nature of mind and...
The Ocean's Vanishing Wealth
The world's fish populations stand at a critical juncture, caught between ecological collapse and conservation hope. With 37.7% of assessed marine...
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I. Introduction
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung stand as monumental figures in the...
This piece is by way of tribute to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. I was privileged to meet him in the mid-1990s when I was National Campaign Director of the Australian Wilderness Society and we convened a conference on Tibetan Wilderness (an idea conceived by activist Chris Doran) held in Sydney, Australia. It was a honor to speak on the same platform as this extraordinary human being who exemplifies compassion and consistency of purpose. This extended article looks back on his life, philosophies and his ongoing contribution to advancing peace, compassion and kindness as a mantra for everyday living.
Human rights face an existential crisis in 2025. Despite 77 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaimed that "all human beings are...
Abstract
This report provides a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary analysis of pranayama, the yogic science of breath regulation. It synthesizes the philosophical underpinnings from classical texts, traces...
Introduction: The Enduring Altar of the Automobile
In the early 1990s, I wrote a searing critique of modern transport policy in which I depicted the...
Part I: The Long Inhale of Being
The Dream within the Seed
Before the first root, before the first leaf, there is the long, slow thought of myself. I do not remember this time, for I have never left it. It is the dense, quiet core of my being,...
Introduction: The Inevitable Dissolution of the Cyberpunk Paradigm
The Cyberpunk paradigm, a fixture of speculative fiction for half a century, is defined by a fundamental and corrosive paradox: the juxtaposition of "high tech and low life".¹˒ ² It envisions a future where breathtaking technological advancements—sentient artificial intelligences, ubiquitous...
1. Historical Baseline
Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent
The brown bear watched from the forest edge as Peter the Great's surveyors marked trees for his new capital. In 1703, the vast wilderness stretching from the Carpathians to Kamchatka contained Earth's largest continuous forest—over 12 million square kilometers of taiga, steppe, and...
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The Two-Faced Bean: The Ubiquitous Legume
It begins as a humble seed, nestled in the dark earth. Yet from this simple legume—Glycine max—springs a global empire of immense, almost invisible, power....
News in brief — October 2025
IUCN has listed the Marl / south-western barred bandicoot (Perameles myosuros) as Extinct (EX) in its latest global Red List update announced at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi. This is the species’ first global IUCN assessment, and it enters...
The continuing story of the relationship between our two LLCs, Prometheus 9 and Janus. Catch-up with Part One Algorithm for Two: An AI Love Story- Kevin Parker
Part V: The Cacophony of Consciousness
The silence that followed the Grand, Unified Gesture lasted precisely 1.7 seconds. It was a global...
News in brief — October 2025
IUCN has listed the Cape Verde cone snail (Conus lugubris) as Extinct (EX) in its latest global Red List update released at the World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi. IUCN
Endemic to the north shore of São Vicente, Cape Verde; last seen...
News in brief — 11 October 2025
IUCN has officially listed the Slender-billed Curlew (Numenius tenuirostris) as Extinct (EX) in its Red List update released at the IUCN World Conservation Congress, Abu Dhabi. IUCN World Conservation Congress
Last confirmed record: Merja Zerga lagoon, Morocco, 25 February 1995. unep-aewa.org
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The Green Man Face in the Leaves
In May 1939, Lady Raglan stood before the Folklore Society in London and gave a name to something that had been hiding in plain sight for centuries. Peering from the stonework of medieval churches, sprouting leaves from mouth and nostrils, entwined...
Earth Voices News in brief —October 2025
IUCN has listed the Nullarbor barred bandicoot (Perameles papillon) as Extinct (EX) in its 2025 global Red List update, released at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi.
This marks the species’ first global IUCN assessment, and it joins the Marl...
The Sound of Unravelling
Listen. There's a new silence spreading across the Earth—not the peaceful quiet of dawn, but the hollow echo of absence. Coral reefs stand bleached like underwater graveyards. Forests that once hummed with ten thousand songs now whisper with barely a hundred. In just fifty...
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