Brave New World

“But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” 
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

I want to refer to a bookk which might be a good read at this time.

Awakening the ecological mind

The only ethical decison is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

The clearing in the forest

The poet Robert Frost once described civilisation as a clearing in a dense dark forest. As we hacked our way to…

Fear and loathing at the Frontier

Are you kidding me? This was my first response to the claim by the Chief Inspector of schools Amanda…

The Pattern Which Connects

I have been re-reading the amazing work of Gregory Bateson and once again fell trance-like into his conversation…

In memory -

Michael Boyd-Clarke 1933–2019

My dear uncle Mike.

I’ve been trying to draft this eulogy over the past few weeks and it is so

difficult, and what that process has revealed to me is a lifetime of

Imagine an alternative

Teacher: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Naturally Smart People

Season 2 Episode 3: Nora Bateson

Programme duration: 1:03

‘The eye altering alters all’ — William Blake

How do systems learn? How do we re-frame and make sense of our thinking and our being…

A Naturally Smart Place: Kaltukatjara

Naturally Smart People

Episode 2

Andrew Hargreaves