The Fence Around the Sacred
The new visitor centre at the Calanais Stones on the Isle of Lewis has opened its doors. Everyone seems pleased. And I find myself filled with grief.
Renatus’s Substack
My personal Substack
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest posts
Interpretation or Perception?
The Pictish stones as exercise and symptom
We Do Not Need to Return to the Past. We Need to Return to the World.
I recently listened to George Monbiot speaking with Mark Lynas on Saving the World From Bad Ideas, in the episode “Bad Idea #58: Environmentalists Are All the Same”.
What Begins to Glow When We See More Slowly
A Midsummer Greeting from the School of Perception
Stones, Pyramids, and the Shape of Power (IV)
How pyramid-power repeats in history, society, and mind — and how stone-circle perception loosens its grip.
Coming to Our Senses
A love letter to the body, the world, and the beings who meet us through perception
Becoming Available
Notes from the School of Perception
A School Needs a Place
Dear friends, something in this work is asking to take a step out of words and into form. Not as a finished idea, but as a beginning that becomes real only by being attempted together.
What Actually Works in a School of Perception
Dear friends, this is a slightly different kind of post: part thank-you, part update, and part reflection on what this Substack is teaching me as it slowly finds its form.
Easter Morning on Iona
On sense perception, presence, and the resurrection forces