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Storytelling and Ecology: Empathy, Enchantment, and Emergence in the Use of Oral Narratives
Storytelling and Ecology, from Bloomsbury Academic, is my first academic monograph. The writing of it – the second draft in particular – was quite an intense experience, since it coincided with the first five months of the pandemic. The concept … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Mythology, Storytelling
Tagged Anthony Nanson, Bloomsbury, connection, Ecology, monograph, Storytelling, Storytelling and Ecology
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A History of Discovery and Exploration: The Search Begins
I’ve been aware for a long time how the heroic age of discovery by European explorers, from the late 15th century onwards, raised the curtain for the imperialist conquest and exploitation of the populations and territories of other countries. But … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Travel
Tagged exploration, explorers, imperialism, military expedition, travellers
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Diana Durham – Coherent Self, Coherent World – Review
In a lecture called ‘Imagining Otherwise’, included in his book Green Man Dreaming (2018), Lindsay Clarke deploys a diagram of two intersecting circles to illustrate the relationship between our inner and outer worlds. The shape made by their overlap is … Continue reading
Posted in Spirituality
Tagged Coherent Self, Coherent World, David Bohm, Diana Durham, explicate, implicate
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Voyage Intemporel – Timeless Voyage – Buddhism in Space?
You can’t say it’s not imaginative. Voyage Intemporel is an early BD (1982) of Sergio Macedo’s that depicts a realm of celestial beings who take an interest in the spiritual evolution of life on Earth and become alarmed when humankind … Continue reading
Posted in Comics, fantasy, science fiction
Tagged Appel Guery, BDs, science fiction, Sergio Macedo, Spirituality, Voyage Intemporel
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Arran Stibbe – Ecolinguistics – Review
Arran Stibbe is the founder of the International Ecolinguistics Association. On this subject of ecolinguistics he, quite literally, wrote the book. The subject, and this superb book, is all about applying the tools of linguistics to the service of a … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Literary criticism, Review
Tagged Arran Stibbe, ecolinguistics, ecosophy
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Merlin and the Making of Stonehenge
Originally posted on Stonehenge Stone Circle News and Information:
The archaeologists have their ideas about how and why Stonehenge was built. The annals of legend have another story, one that involves Merlin the magician plus the uncle and father of…
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Alida Gersie’s Earthtales (review)
Alida Gersie’s celebrated Earthtales is, in large part, a collection of traditional tales that have to do with the earth and its creatures. Most are from cultures that have been endangered by the imperialism of Western modernity, which by the … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Mythology, Storytelling
Tagged Alida Gersie, arts therapist, Earthtales, groupwork, storymaking, Storytelling, traditional tales
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Kevin Crossley-Holland’s The Magic Lands
The Magic Lands is the paperback title of Kevin Crossley-Holland’s British Folk Tales. It’s a better title in that the collection covers Irish tales as well as ones from England, Scotland, and Wales. The Irish stories do tend to … Continue reading
Cecil Collins and the Holy Fool
I have a hazy memory, from my early twenties, of attending an exhibition of work by William Blake and also Cecil Collins at the Tate. It can’t have been an exhibition of major works, because what I remember are works … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Spirituality
Tagged Cecil Collins, Fool, Green Man Dreaming, Lindsay Clarke, New Age, The Vision of the Fool
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In the Chinks of the World Machine
In the Chinks of the World Machine provides a committed but very readable picture of the achievements of serious science fiction by women at the time of its publication in 1988. Sarah Lefanu was in a privileged position to write … Continue reading
