Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
Writer; retired academic. Exploring a panpsychic worldview in a series of co-operative inquiries with River. Papers on action research, nature writing, panpsychism & much more peterreason.net. Posting on Learning How Land Speaks peterreason.substack.com .. more
Writer; retired academic. Exploring a panpsychic worldview in a series of co-operative inquiries with River. Papers on action research, nature writing, panpsychism & much more peterreason.net. Posting on Learning How Land Speaks peterreason.substack.com
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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...
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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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
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Sep 16
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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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
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Personal profiles of twenty-six young Just Stop Oil activists interwoven with Porritt's deeply informed perspective
shinynewbooks.co.uk/love-anger-b...
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Aug 18
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...
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Aug 7
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
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Aug 2
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...
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Jul 18
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
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Jun 20
Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!
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ShinyNewBooks
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· Jun 17
Bird School: A beginner in the wood by Adam Nicolson
Review by Peter Reason
‘The first time I met a bird close-up, it was dead. A raven.’
From this grab-your-attention first line and the evocative description of this encounter, I am ho
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Shiny Tuesday: @peterreason.bsky.social reviews Bird School by Adam Nicolson. 'Throughout, the writing is gorgeous – elegant yet unfussy, richly descriptive without over-doing it, ' shinynewbooks.co.uk/bird-school-...
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Jun 10
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Review by Peter Reason
It is very unlikely that many readers of Shiny New Books have missed Robert Macfarlane’s new book. It has been reviewed in most of the major periodicals; chosen as ‘
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.@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social My review of Is a River Alive is at shinynewbooks.co.uk/is-a-river-a... @shinynewbooks.bsky.social
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Hawkwood
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· Jan 16
🌊 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.
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Peter Reason
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· Jan 13
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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'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?”'
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Peter Reason
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· Dec 31
Cake tester
“Come and help me see that the cake is done,” Elizabeth calls from the kitchen.
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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
Peter Reason
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· Dec 30
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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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...
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Dec 19
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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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...
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Dec 16
Glass Salt Cellars
These glass salt cellars were gift from Gracie for my 21st birthday.
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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...
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Dec 9
What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives
Peter Reason
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· Dec 4
Fantastic. Well done. Properly published. Persistence +quality pays off.
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Dec 3
What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Nov 27
... 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.
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Nov 25
'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.'
Peter Reason
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· Nov 18
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?
Peter Reason
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· Nov 17
Learning from Thomas Berry: The universe has both an inner dimension – a being for itself – and an outer, physical dimension.
Peter Reason
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· Nov 12
Who keeps a stringless and wonky cello at the top of the stairs? New post by Marilyn Francis on Objects&Lives
Peter Reason
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· Nov 5
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.
Peter Reason
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· Oct 29
Stephan Harding obituary
Other lives: Ecologist and teacher at Schumacher College, who worked with James Lovelock on Gaia theor
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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/...
Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
· Oct 4
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…’
Peter Reason
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· Oct 1
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
Peter Reason
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· Sep 24
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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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.'
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Peter Reason
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· Sep 9
New post on Objects&Lives remembering two young people choosing fancy new cutlery in the 1960s