The semantics of spin

Reply from Josh Frydenberg If you have explored the ‘Letters’ page of this blog, you’ll know that’s where I document my correspondence with the government. Having now received two replies (from Parliamentary Secretary Josh Frydenberg and from the Office of Warren Truss), it is also where I have begun the fascinating (at least to me) … Continue reading →

Reza’s march

http://vimeo.com/89244643 I am proud to say that I was one of the many who ‘Marched in March’. While little of substance was shown in the mainstream press, this Vimeo is a beautiful edit of the phenomena that saw 112,000 people take to the streets across the nation in protest against the inhumane, unscientific and destructive … Continue reading →

Sacred Economics

Without judgement or blame, without fear or blind optimism, Charles Eisenstein sums up exactly where we are and why. Through our separation from nature and each other, and through our playful ‘childlike’ exploration of technology has risen the competitive commodification of the very goods and services that used to be gifted from nature or exchanged … Continue reading →

Theory U

If you haven’t yet read ‘Presence’ or other works contributed to by Otto Scharmer, here’s a quick link. https://www.presencing.com/ Continue reading →

Wade Davis TED Talk

Here’s the link to the full story exploring the endangered cultures that still hold this extraordinary knowledge. Continue reading →

It’s very simple

There’s a TED talk by anthropologist Wade Davis where he describes the way the Colombian Indians of Tayrona prepare a particular psychotropic plant compound for the shamans to conduct their spiritual rituals. Two plants are used. One belongs to a group of seventeen closely related species that taxonomists can’t tell apart without analysing their DNA. There’s a … Continue reading →