D ear friends, Saturday, October 25, was a productive day, because Walkie-Talkie #8 was also recorded that afternoon, just after the two previous ones. On my way back to the village, I continue talking about our habit of constantly dividing reality into smaller and smaller ‘parts’, and then thinking that by observing those parts we can understand what the whole means. A strange idea, once you start thinking about it even just a little. I also talk about how we tend to isolate

D ear friends, This Walkie-Talkie was recorded immediately after the previous one. I continue walking on a forest path in the province of Somogy in Hungary, close to the village where I spend a considerable part of the year, and I pick up where I left off at the end of the previous Walkie-Talkie. I talk a little more about Alfred North Whitehead and his process philosophy, the connection with quantum physics, how the diagrams and models of atoms that we are all more or less f

In which is told why the planned travel project will not proceed as I had envisioned two years ago, what will follow instead, and how that relates to my growing fascination with the ways in which we perceive (or do not perceive) the world through the glasses of our world view. “As you start to walk out on the path, the path appears.” Rumi  Farm near Bovec, Slovenia. October 2025 Blog posts of 2000 words or more are accompanied by an audio version, read by me. D ear friends,

D ear friends, In Walkie-Talkie number six, I am walking on a country road in the province of Somogy in Hungary. If you are curious about why I spend a lot of time in Hungary, I refer you to the pages ‘ About me ’ and ‘ My path ’ on the website of A Biosphere Project. During this walk, I continue to talk about how we project ‘maps’ or concepts onto reality, and then come to regard those maps or concepts as more real than the terrain itself. Someone who had a lot to say about

D ear friends, In Walkie-Talkie number five, I am walking on a forest path in the Julian Alps in Slovenia. I'll spare you the story of how I got there, as it would have made this ‘talk’ too long. But I'll continue where I left off last time leaning against the old tree, namely the fact that the old, mechanistic ‘map’ we have been projecting onto nature, onto living organisms and ourselves, is incorrect. New (and not so new) developments in biology and systems thinking show us

D ear friends, In this fourth Walkie-Talkie, I rub my back against a large old tree, and talk a little about why the ‘map’ we have...

"Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts." Soren...

“To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.” Rosa Parks ” Video of the Zoom...

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“The total number of minds in the Universe is one.” Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961), one of the 'founders of quantum physics - 20th century...

In which is told about how we have seemingly painted ourselves into a corner, why that does not mean we no longer have any way out, but...

“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and...

In which is told about how my research has expanded in recent years from the more ‘traditional’ ecological themes to an ever-widening web...

In which is told by Tom Murphy -in this third and for the time being last episode on energy- why new sources of energy cannot possibly...

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation,” Rumi Ibolya sings in the forest, Tórdai Hasadék, Romania , Oc tober 2024....

In which Richard Heinberg explains why it is impossible to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by simply building wind turbines and solar...

"My boat strikes something deep. At first sounds of silence, waves. Nothing has happened; Or perhaps everything has happened. And I am...

In which is told about -as the title suggests- the reasons why climate change is not our biggest environmental problem and why technology...

“If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost.” Neale Donald Walsch Winter, Belgium,...

“Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.” Rainer Maria Rilke Stars over our garden, Somogy province,...