How adaptive networks can help future resilience There’s a widespread view that strengthening local communities will be crucial in the years ahead, to help us all to live with increasing levels of disruption, e.g. to food supplies, utilities, weather patterns, and...
Dreams against Despair: Thomas Berry and the power of myth Dreams, in the sense of inspiring visions, and myths, in the sense of powerful beliefs, have a huge influence on our world. Think of Mandela and Gandhi: two lone figures whose dreams overturned a myth which...
Amazingly, this book is an international bestseller. For me and others who have worked with UK woodlands for decades, it has felt like a benign backwater of our society, but may its time has come. The sign that this could be true is the superb recent BBC TV...
Why magical thinking threatens us all – and how to antidote it What I mean by magical thinking is an utter disregard for truth and reality, the delusion that I can make facts just by saying them, thinking them into reality. A great example was Donald Trump telling...
Book blog: Fairy tales are true, by Claudio Tomaello A doorway to the subconscious, spirit world This short, readable book opens a doorway to different ways to see everyday life, through the medium of fairy tales and fables. Claudio is passionate and persuasive about...
Feeling our way without a map Subtle discernment for confusing times Imagine you’re in a dream where you’re trying to drive somewhere. Your satnav goes off. You realise you don’t have an old-fashioned paper map. There’s no mobile signal, so...
