This is the scientific article of the Felsentor experiment on wich the film Descending The Mountain is based. It was first published in 2020 in the Magazines Elsevier and Nature.
Scientific Article of the Felsentor experiment
Exhibition – The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree
The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and The Cosmic Tree was originally conceived as a trans-generational group exhibition, but has been postponed. In the meantime, we have launched this complimentary online programme of new artist commissions, podcasts, films, texts, images and audio, expanding on and enriching the ideas and issues informing the show over at www.botanicalmind.online.
Drawing on indigenous traditions from the Amazon rainforest; alternative perspectives on Western scientific rationalism; and new thinking around plant intelligence, philosophy and cultural theory, The Botanical Mind Online investigates the significance of the plant kingdom to human life, consciousness and spirituality across cultures and through time. It positions the plant as both a universal symbol found in almost every civilisation and religion across the globe, and the most fundamental but misunderstood form of life on our planet
Entangled life – Merlin Sheldrake
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures is a 2020 nonfiction book on mycology by English biologist Merlin Sheldrake – brother of our talented musician Cosmo Sheldrake! His first book, it was published by Random House on 12 May 2020
Art & Spirituality – Eleanor Heartney
In a recent article for Artnet, Eleanor Heartney argued that ‘spirituality is at the heart of the established canon and that mystical and occult ideas run through the works of artists as diverse as Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Beckman, Miró, Dove, and Klee.’ She then noted a ‘new receptivity to spirituality’ that reflects our current state of upheaval including a ‘widespread recognition that materialism has produced a climate crisis that may spell the end of life as we know it.’ As at the turn of the last century, ‘a search for alternatives has manifested itself in a surge of interest in spiritual and spiritualist concerns.’ The Botanical Mind sits neatly alongside Heartney’s article by surveying similar ideas and artists while drawing attention to contemporary artists linking spirituality to the environment and the climate emergency.
Continue reading “Art & Spirituality – Eleanor Heartney”Underland: A Deep Time Journey – Robert Macfarlane
In this highly anticipated sequel to his international bestseller The Old Ways, Macfarlane takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind.
Continue reading “Underland: A Deep Time Journey – Robert Macfarlane”The Varieties of Religious Experience – William James
Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized religions, were the backbone of the world’s religious life.
Continue reading “The Varieties of Religious Experience – William James”The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible – Virginia Gaze / Dr. K. Mandrake, PhD
The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible details every step of the complex mushroom cultivation process, making it hands down the largest and most comprehensive book ever written on the subject.
Continue reading “The Psilocybin Mushroom Bible – Virginia Gaze / Dr. K. Mandrake, PhD”MEDITATIVE MOMENTS with Vanja Palmers
Vanja Palmers, Zen master, shares his experiences and perceptions of the inner world.