RSS Amplifier

Blog

Total Being

Musings on the possibility of achieving a coherent existence in this age of disintegration.

totalbeing.substack.comSource feed ↗10 posts

Live Last read · last published · next check

Written by

Latest posts

Have You Found Your Center?

Perplexed by this question, I decided to inquire into what it might truly mean to "find one's center". Should we approach this task through the body? Our consciousness? Or through experience itself?

Inhabiting the Space of Sensitivity

Is sensitivity key to unleashing the highest levels of intelligence within us? In this new essay, I explore why sensitivity might well be one of our most wondrous--and most misunderstood--faculties.

Cognitive Sovereignty and the Freedom to Experience Your Own Life

Society is awakening to the need to protect our thought processes from aggressive technological manipulation. But by focusing primarily on cognition, are we missing something yet more fundamental?

A Whole New Relationship with the Air

This is the story of how I rediscovered a healthier relationship with the air - surely our primary link to the living world - after deep anxieties about London smog and alarming air quality app data.

What Do The Fungi Want?

Sometimes an ostensibly strange question can alter our relationship with the world. Here, I retrace the curious journey that led me to 'interspecies creativity' and 'creating with and for nature'.

The Day 'Wellbeing' Took on a Profound Meaning - Remembering a Japanese Holistic Retreat Experience

In this short essay, I recall my visit to Japan's leading holistic retreat and how it revealed to me a profound perspective on 'wellbeing' - as a process of synchronisation and mutual regeneration.

Mediating Planetary Co-Existence

In this essay, I explore how artists help us see that we really do share the same world with slime mold, seaweed and all our non-human kin, playing a curious role resembling that of language teachers.

AI Madness Meets Holistic Intelligence

AI leaders are stuck in a race to create an uncontrollable AI. In this short note, I reflect on how holistic intelligence can help us out of this dilemma, building on Tristan Harris's recent comments.

Disharmony as Intelligence

Is our ability to sense dissonance — for which the Japanese have a unique word — an advanced form of intelligence that we ignore at our peril?

Enfolded in Living Reality Pt. 2

Ours is a topsy-turvy world where that which is synthetic, abstract or digital is taken as primary and that which is alive and whole as secondary. Is it too late to find our way to a living reality?