As the world turns, we’re coming into a new moment. The Enlightenment project — the dream of the self-determining, self-affirming individual — is vanishing in the face of earthly reality. The failures of trickle-down and neoliberalism are some of the most recent and egregious instances of this reality. Now the…

The Entangled Bodies enterprise Throughout recorded time, humans have enquired into their own natures and into the nature of the worldly phenomena they experience. …

Sand Talk and the Five Graces In his book Sand Talk, Tyson Yunkaporta traces a linked series of images and yarns, forming a cosmology of stories, practices and understandings that have sustained the lives of Australia’s original peoples for something like sixty thousand years. …

Education and learning as improving human responsiveness The history of this enquiry has been to discover what it is to be a human person in a world of other human persons (and non-humans as well). What are the possibilities that arise between us all, and how can we seize and make the most of these possibilities for…

The ground has shifted. The world looks and feels quite different than it did only six months ago. In this moment of great confusion, something new and momentous is arriving. The voices of the old mainstream are still yearning for a return to ‘normal’. A political party leaflet that arrived…

Reading the articles in “Taiwan Insight” emphasises the orientation that we have in New Zealand — that of a modest-sized island nation looking to steer an independent course between global superpowers with whose trajectories we are unavoidably entangled. There are common themes around democratic participation and economic development based on…

A video introduction It’s time to wake up to our humanity — since now we’re recognising that we’re not separated beings, but part of an interconnecting whole. By rediscovering and intensifying our relational abilities, we can reform ourselves as purposeful enterprises of interlocking differences. And do what has to be done by combining all of our talents together. This is the learning that we can share with our children.

The message of all the foregoing is that the of learning and adaptation required for people to ‘get in tune’ with one another — sufficient to address the maelstrom of planetary challenges that we face — are extensive and systemic. They range across all of the aspects of our being…

Part 5 of this essay addresses one of the most neglected and forgotten arts of the modern world: the work of convening and conducting purposeful gatherings of large numbers of people. Indeed modernity has depended on destroying ‘indigenous’ forms of assembly, creating a society of the masses and institutions that…