Posts Tagged ‘Environment’

Neanderthals bid for Human Status

Neanderthals bid for Human Status
NEANDERTHALS as innovators? That the concept seems amusing goes to show how our sister species has become the butt of our jokes. Yet in the Middle Palaeolithic, some 300,000 years ago, innovation is what the Neanderthals were up to. From NewScientist, by Rowan Hooper This period is usually regarded...
February 25th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

Psychedelics and Species Connectedness

Psychedelics and Species Connectedness
Evidence suggests that at the very least the consumption of psychedelic substances leads to an increased concern for Nature and ecological issues. On one level we can understand that this may be due to a basic appreciation of place and aesthetics that accompanies the increased sensory experience, or...
February 8th, 2010 | Extended Mind | Read More

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?

Is Darwin’s ‘Survival of the Fittest’ theory going Extinct?
READERS in search of literature about Darwin or Darwinism will have no trouble finding it. Recent milestone anniversaries of Darwin’s birth and of the publication of On the Origin of Species have prompted a plethora of material, so authors thinking of adding another volume had better have a good...
February 8th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

The Shaman’s Renaissance

The Shaman’s Renaissance
A new religion is spreading to Britain – its central sacrament the consumption of a hallucinogenic Class A drug. Here’s a report from the faith’s heartland in the rainforests of the Amazon I am deep in the Amazon rainforest, anxiously losing my mind as the world begins to disintegrate....
February 1st, 2010 | Spirituality | Read More

The Abolition of Man

The Abolition of Man
It came burning hot into my mind, whatever he said and however he flattered, when he got me home to his house, he would sell me for a slave. —John Bunyan C.S.Lewis’ famous and prophetic essay about man’s realationship with nature and technology. `Man’s conquest of Nature’...
January 26th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

Is Psychedelia ‘The New Black’?

Is Psychedelia ‘The New Black’?
Strolling down Kensington High Street last week, for a brief moment I could have sworn I was in San Francisco, circa 1973. By Candida Balfour for The Evening Standard. The windows of American Apparel heaved with neon T-shirts and trippy prints, while Empire of the Sun’s heady synth came...
January 12th, 2010 | Arts | Read More

Can We Escape Consumerism?

Can We Escape Consumerism?
How do we break a system which now permeates every aspect of our lives? Who said this? “All the evidence shows that beyond the sort of standard of living which Britain has now achieved, extra growth does not automatically translate into human welfare and happiness.” Was it a. the boss of Greenpeace,...
January 6th, 2010 | Social Insight | Read More

2012 & Human Destiny

2012 & Human Destiny
THE END OF THE WORLD OR CONSCIOUSNESS REVOLUTION? Instead of predicting a physical destruction of the material world, the Mayan prophecy might refer to death and rebirth and a mass inner transformation of humanity. In order to explore this idea, we have to answer two important questions, First, how...
December 2nd, 2009 | Big Ideas | Read More

Aquatic Apes

Aquatic Apes
Scientists find it easy to explain why we resemble the African apes so closely by pointing out that gorillas, chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor. It is much harder to explain why we differ from the gorilla and the chimpanzee much more markedly than they differ from one another. Something...
December 2nd, 2009 | Evolution | Read More

The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada

The Urgent Threat to World Peace is … Canada
The harm this country could do in the next two weeks will outweigh all the good it has done in a century. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 20th November 2009 When you think of Canada, which qualities come to mind? The world’s peace-keeper, the friendly nation, a liberal counterweight...
December 1st, 2009 | Evolution | Read More
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