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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Sometimes experiences of wonder and enchantment arise, not in reponse to vision quest or ceremony, but spontaneously and unexpectedly in our everyday lives. Here is one account peterreason.substack.com/p/walking-in...

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Walking in Beauty

Four of us – Dave, David, Luisa, and myself – have maintained a monthly practice of meeting to share our encounters with River.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Objects and Lives. The carved wooden cabinet that carries unspoken family memories. 'In this account Kate (almost) disappears; but she remains with us through her woodcarving. they hold her presence with us so long as the stories are told" objectsandlives.substack.com/p/carved-woo...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Living Waters 2026, a panpsychic co-operative inquiry exploring River as living presence. If we invoke their living presence, address them as subjects and as persons, what manner of response might we receive? www.schumachercollege.org/living-waters

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Schumacher College - Living Waters — Schumacher College

Schumacher College and Schumacher Wild offer holistic, ecological, transformative and transdisciplinary education. We offer both short courses and foundation courses local to Totnes, Devon and South D...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Love, Anger and Betrayal is one of the most hard-hitting books on the science and politics of climate change I have read. Personal profiles of twenty-six young Just Stop Oil activists interwoven with Porritt's deeply informed perspective shinynewbooks.co.uk/love-anger-b...

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Love, Anger & Betrayal: Just Stop Oil’s young climate campaigners, by Jonathan Porritt

Review by Peter Reason Sir Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE, Eton and Oxford; one might imagine him as a pillar of the British Establishment. Then you remember he was co-founder of the

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Narratives, images and video from Sara Mark’s Dwelling Places inquiry. “Over the summer I have offered oil and sage-smoke to my lintels and doorposts, and grain to the thresholds of my North London flat… I have also offered water and wine to the avenue of London Plane trees...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

In this second post from the Dwelling Places co-operative inquiry, Ľubos Slovak describes some of the challenges he encountered as he became acquainted with a new Dwelling

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

My father loved flowers, especially sweet peas which he grew in rows in the vegetable garden.. he would go out and carefully dead head, tie them in them, and pick bunches to take indoors. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/clarice-cl...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

New post in Objects & Lives.: One summer day in the 1960s, David and Ann drove up to our house in Wandsworth Common in the Ford Transit van. They unloaded a decorative urn, a surprise present for my parents, which was swiftly dubbed ‘The Ruin’. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/the-ruin

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!

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Hawkwood @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

🌊 Living Waters | 11th March - 29th April - An 8-week online course, exploring the panpsychic view that everything in the world, including rivers and the Earth, is interconnected with mind and matter deeply intertwined. hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

'When Nanna died about ten years after the war and the house was cleared, Ann took possession of the dinner service. “Why would you want that, dear?”' open.substack.com/pub/objectsa...

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Wedgwood Soup Bowl c 1880

At Turret Lodge, my grandmother’s house on Wandsworth Common, London, the front door was at the top of three wide steps.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

A knitting needle stuck in a champagne cork serves as a cake tester. How long has this been in the family? objectsandlives.substack.com/p/cake-tester

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Cake tester

“Come and help me see that the cake is done,” Elizabeth calls from the kitchen.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The experience at the heart of enchantment is sheer existential wonder, and it comes… “as a gift or not at all.” New post on Learning How Land Speaks peterreason.substack.com/p/oak-and-wa...

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Oak and water

Three of us – David, Dave, and myself – are tentatively moving our inquiry from a focus on River to a focus on the places where we live, our Dwelling Places.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Delighted to announce Living Waters 2025, a co-operative inquiry into sentient and communicative waterways drawing on living cosmos panpsychism. For more information and registration hawkwood-website.vercel.app/our-programm...

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Living Waters

A panpsychic view starts from the understanding that all things, including the Earth itself, are integral to the fabric of the living cosmos, all of the same sentient cloth. Mind is a fundamental aspe...

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

This is the story of Gracie, who come to work for my grandmother in her early teens and stayed with the family for the rest of her life. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/glass-salt...

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Glass Salt Cellars

These glass salt cellars were gift from Gracie for my 21st birthday.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Fantastic. Well done. Properly published. Persistence +quality pays off.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

... the sentient world is full of gestures and narratives, and that those of us socialized into a western worldview are far more likely to ignore what is before our eyes than to see what isn’t there.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

'Now the cow parsley has dropped petals all over the carpet, so they go on in the compost bin. I return the vase to the top shelf, its fugitive memories still hovering around.'

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Where did this curious carved box come from? and what is the link between Hull and Archangel? and what did June's father know about it?

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Learning from Thomas Berry: The universe has both an inner dimension – a being for itself – and an outer, physical dimension.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Who keeps a stringless and wonky cello at the top of the stairs? New post by Marilyn Francis on Objects&Lives

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

The pages are splattered with brown cooking stains that match the illustration of chutney being spooned out of a preserving pan. Other pages... are similarly distressed, but rather less so. All the rest are untouched, almost pristine.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

My tribute to our dear friend, colleague, teacher, Stephan Harding, who taught us to love Gaia as a living being and to integrate science with soul is published the Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Stephan Harding obituary

Other lives: Ecologist and teacher at Schumacher College, who worked with James Lovelock on Gaia theor

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

New post in Objects and Lives from Jacqueline Kurio. ‘Lying on top of one of the untied bags were Dad’s battered brown gardening shoes. Dropping them to the floor I slipped them on, feeling the familiar depressions where his feet had been…’

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ, as the Lakota prayer has it. All my relations. We live in a world of relationship. There are moments of grace when we recognise both human and more-than-human as kin

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

I much enjoyed The Ghost Lake by Wendy Pratt.' All landscapes are personal. The landscape you live in is not just an archive of past lives, past geological and natural events, but an archive of your own story.' shinynewbooks.co.uk/the-ghost-la...

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The Ghost Lake by Wendy Pratt

Review by Peter Reason Ghost Lake is a paleolithic, extinct lake that lies between the Yorkshire Wolds and Scarborough. In prehistoric times it was a real lake, the centre of a flourishing Mesolith…

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

New post on Objects&Lives remembering two young people choosing fancy new cutlery in the 1960s

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Reflections on listening to Land. First, colleagues in WA reflect on kinship relation with Country in Indigenous Languages; then folk singer Sam Lee and European folk songs as embedded in Land; and now bioregionalist Etain Addey, tell us of what she has learned from Land.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

New post on Objects&Lives: Table and Chairs, and what my Uncle taught me

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Cabinets of Curiosity, or The Wunderkabinett, new posting on Objects&Lives with poet Sue Boyle

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

New post on Learning How Land Speaks. Australian Indigenous Elders explain that ‘when you take care of Country, Country will take care of you’. They teach us the words from Indigenous languages, rinyi, pirlirr and liyan, which teach us to listen deeply to the spirit of Country.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

River as Teacher. Second conversation between me and Andreas Weber @biopoetics. 'The point of life is to beget life, and this whole reality is alive'

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 26/06/2024

The Inner Work: a conversation with Andreas Weber. New posting on Learning How Land Speaks

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 21/06/2024

Do the dishes and teacups from your childhood evoke vivid memories of joy and sadness? New post on Objects&Lives

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

Startled by Kingfisher. New posting on Learning How Land Speaks. As Tioikasin Ghosthorse tells us 'No matter what language you speak, a hidden, nurturing world is already at work with you'.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Objects are not to be dismissed as mere matter, for things in themselves makes links with the human psyche; they connect us, directly and viscerally, to memories of people, places, and events. New post on Objects&Lives: Oak Chest

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

'The ocean reveals that the roots of the crisis we inhabit lie deep in the patterns of violent exploitation and extraction that have shaped the modern world' says James Bradley in Deep Water: The World in the Ocean. My review @cityoftongues @ScribeBooks shinynewbooks.co.uk/deep-water-t...

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Deep Water: The World in the Ocean, by James Bradley

Review by Peter Reason James Bradley, the Australian novelist and essayist, chooses an apt epigraph from Arthur C. Clarke for his book: ‘How inappropriate to call this planet “Earth”, when it clear…

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

New substack posting on Object&Lives from guest poet Ama Bolton: Pocket Handkerchief. Objects&Lives features short writing & imagery reflecting on household and personal objects that hold value through the memories they hold and their associations with family & cultural history.

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