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Broadcaster Ian Skelly, co-author of the book Harmony, talks about a new film which explores the environmental philosophy and practical achievements of King Charles III
Sabahat Fida contemplates the implications of the caterpillar’s transformation for our understanding of identity
The village you left only hours before — so central then — now rests distant, far below, a small point on a broader unfolding. From this higher vantage, the landscape widens and reframes the familiar in a broader context, inviting the mind to stretch gently beyond its former edges, toward a new horizon.
1) We overrate knowledge and underrate not-knowing
2) We overrate comfort and underrate discomfort.
3) We overrate action and underrate non-action (stillness).
Dostoevsky asserted more than once that understanding is achieved primarily through the heart, rather than the rational mind, and the dry and dispassionate intellectualism (in his view) of the West was a particular object of his contempt, seeing it as a dilution of our humanity.
The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycrisis of climate chaos, mass migration, increasing warfare and transformative AI represents a rupture of comparable magnitude.