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Filip Van Kerckhoven

A Biosphere Project

"You are not a separate being. You belong to the living body of Earth. You are the Earth, becoming conscious of itself."
-Joanna Macy (1929 - 2025)

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make”
- Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

Welcome to the website of A Biosphere Project!

"To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again."
-Herman Hesse

"One of the first conditions for happiness is that the link between humankind and nature shall not be broken."
-Leo Tolstoy

A Biosphere Project

A search for the origins of the crisis between mankind and nature

You can unsubscribe at any time. A Biosphere Project does not share data with third parties

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
- Kahlil Gibran

Featured

The Most Important Echo Chamber of All - Musings and Meditations

The center of the Milky Way Galaxy above our garden in Hungary. Photo taken with my phone on August 6, 2024, at 10:12 p.m. Dear friends, In this musing, I’m going to make an exception and allow myself just a tiny bit more words than usual, since my New Year’s resolution to keep these Musings short. I’m doing this because this text really does touch on the essence of my project and my goals for the coming years. So please bear with me—it won’t be unbearably long, either. I’d l

Jul 1116 min read

Warm Enough? (There Is Bad News ánd Good News) - A Biosphere Project Blog

Scorched landscape, Somogy County, Hungary, August 2022 Dear friends, Someone suggested a while ago that I should once more write something about heat waves, in particular about the extreme heat wave that has gripped Europe over the past few weeks. Well then, I would like to oblige, but what more is there to say? It’s all been said already—hundreds or thousands of times since the 1970s. It is starting to sound a bit like a broken record, a needle that keeps getting stuck in t

Jul 37 min read

"We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives."
-David Richo

“You cannot experience one day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what difference you want to make. ”
-Jane Goodall

Musings and Meditations

A series of blog posts with short and sometimes somewhat longer reflections, musings, and all sorts of ideas, with an emphasis on hope and the possibility of a better world.

The Most Important Echo Chamber of All - Musings and Meditations

Jul 1116 min read

Echo Chambers (Continued) - Musings and Meditations

Tree in the afternoon light, Julian Alps, Slovenia. September 2025 Dear friends, In the previous Musing, I talked about echo chambers, and I suggested that our entire society can be seen as a kind of echo chamber, in which dominant viewpoints and worldviews are constantly reflected and amplified, while divergent, dissident, or unusual viewpoints are underrepresented, suppressed, or silenced. Society as a whole is the echo chamber you don’t even realize you’re in. That “overar

Jun 186 min read

The Echo Chamber You Don't Realize You're In - Musings and Meditations

Sunset near the village of Ág, Hungary. September 2026 Dear friends, Over the past few months, I’ve shared a number of interviews with leading scientists about some surprising insights emerging in science and the philosophy of science—insights that have far-reaching implications for the way we view the world and ourselves. And I will share many more interviews and lectures like these in the months to come. Most of these scientists are completely unknown to the general public.

Jun 36 min read

Spacetime Is the Memory of a Self Knowing Universe (Federico Faggin! Part Two) - Musings and Meditations

Second interview with the brilliant physicist and inventor Frederico Faggin—the inventor of (among other things) the first microchip and the touchscreen—on his views on consciousness, quantum physics, science, and spirituality. Highly recommended! The first few minutes are an introduction; the actual interview begins at 2:40 Dear friends, I am pleased to share this second interview with the brilliant quantum physicist and inventor Frederico Faggin with you. Frederico Faggin i

Apr 235 min read

The Genius of Frederico Faggin! - Musings and Meditations

A fascinating interview with the brilliant physicist Frederico Faggin, the inventor of the first microchip and of the the touchscreen, discussing his views on consciousness, quantum physics, science, and spirituality. Highly recommended! The first few minutes are a “teaser”; the actual interview begins around 2:44 D ear friends, I promised you quite some time ago that I would talk about Frederico Faggin, someone whose work I have been following for years. My apologies for the

Apr 176 min read

Dean Radin’s Wonderful Story on Meaningful Coincidence - Musings and Meditations

Eight-minute video in which Dean Radin, chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, recounts an unlikely case of synchronicity that happened to him personally. Warmly recommended! D ear friends, In the previous Musing , I shared a very long interview with you, so this time I’m serving up a very short excerpt from an interview. Just to restore the karmic balance. And since I promised you a while back to tell you more about the phenomenon of synchronicity (or meanin

Apr 115 min read

To all 'Musings'

"The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world."
- Joanna Macy (1929 - 2025)

"No problem can be solved from the consciousness that created that problem."
- Albert Einstein

Walkie-Talkies

A series of short videos in which I talk while walking in nature, without a script, about all kinds of topics covered in A Biosphere Project, with an emphasis on new ways of looking at reality and ourselves.

Walkie-Talkie #12 ‘What Can Molehills Teach Us About Science and Our Paradigm?’

D ear friends, In this Walkie-Talkie number twelve, I find myself back in the sculpture park near Antwerp, and I invite you on a little thought exercise, inspired by the many molehills scattered across the park's lawn, betraying the presence of our little underground friends. In the first part, I explain how we can see molehills, and especially our rather fruitless battle against them, as a good analogy for our constant attempts to control nature and the desperate struggle to

Mar 92 min read

Walkie-Talkie #11 ‘What Is Wrong With Our World View? Everything, Pretty Much!’

D ear friends, During this walk, I will delve a little deeper into our current worldview and the reasons why our worldview is not really of great help us to be in a better relation to our living world, our biosphere. In Walkie-Talkie #10 , I gave a few examples of worldviews and their connection to underlying ideas about consciousness and ‘mind’. I tried to clarify to what degree a worldview or paradigm can have a decisive influence on the relationship between a civilization

Feb 262 min read

Walkie-Talkie #10 ‘Why Mind (Or Never Mind?)’

D ear friends, In Walkie-Talkie #10 I continue where I left off last time: with the great 19th-century psychologist and philosopher William James and his notion of the ‘filter theory’, a remarkable theory about consciousness and ‘mind’. During the previous walk , I briefly explained why I find William James and his work so important and relevant, and now I will go into that in more detail, as well as the question of why we need to talk about the ‘mind’. Why is it necessary

Feb 162 min read

Walkie-Talkie #9 'Yes! The Word Exists! (And Something About Willam James)'

D ear, friends, First of all, I would like to wish you and your loved ones a wonderful new year, filled with love, friendship, health, energy, hope, and all the good things in life! It is not always easy to maintain a positive attitude with everything we see happening in the world at the moment, and sometimes it even seems easy to lose all hope that things will ever be okay with this world. The first week of the new year did not seem to promise much good in that regard. But w

Jan 92 min read

Walkie-Talkie #8 'Pay Attention to the Spaces in Between'

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

Nov 17, 20251 min read

Walkie-Talkie #7 'Something About Atoms, Deer, Diagrams and Consensus Reality'

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

Nov 7, 20252 min read

To all 'Walkie-Talkies'

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey."
- Wendell Berry

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

- Margaret Mead

Blog

The blog brings you posts and updates related to A Biosphere Project, updates on all aspects of the project, journal entries, in-depth articles, book reviews, and so on.

Recent blog posts

Warm Enough? (There Is Bad News ánd Good News) - A Biosphere Project Blog

Jul 37 min read

Writing After the Flood - A Biosphere Project Blog

The small village in southern Belgium where I was writing this post, in an old house next to the Ourthe River. Dear friends, A week ago, I was on a writing retreat. That week, I was able to stay in a large house in a village in southeastern Belgium, in the Ourthe Valley. The house belongs to the parents of some good friends, and I feel grateful and privileged to have been able to spend a week here in seclusion, focusing on my writing. It is an old house, situated next to a sm

May 286 min read

Fundraiser! - A Biosphere Project Blog

Dear friends, It has been about two years now since I decided to take unpaid leave from my position as an art teacher so that I could devote myself full-time to my new adventure, A Biosphere Project. I haven’t regretted it for a moment! It’s an exciting journey, uncertain at times, with many challenges. But I feel very passionate and full of energy, and I feel privileged and grateful to have the choice to follow my heart. Not everyone is given that opportunity, and that makes

Apr 14 min read

New Year’s Resolutions - A Biosphere Project Blog

Forest, Somogy province, Hungary, April 2025 D ear friends, I know, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Still, I have conjured a few for this new year (which is already not tha t new anymore). Both in terms of my personal life and my current path, this “work in progress,” A Biosphere Project. I won't bore you with the resolutions concerning my personal life, although there is sometimes a lot of overlap with my current “work.” Over the past year, it has sometimes b

Jan 247 min read

Best Wishes - A Biosphere Project Blog

Rombon mountain and the Koritnica river, Slovenia, October 2025 Dear Friends, I had planned a number of posts and Walkie-Talkies for this month of December, but things turned out a bit differently. Since I started A Biosphere Project, a pattern has emerged that appears quite regularly: without realizing it, I gradually find myself working 24/7 on one of the many things that make up my current ‘work’. Writing, researching, planning, fundraising, exploring new media, reading p

Dec 19, 20254 min read

The Travels, an Update - A Biosphere Project Blog

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. Dear friends,

Nov 3, 202513 min read

To all blogposts

"Thoughts can organize the world in such a way that that world becomes invisible."
-Anthony De Mello

Featured essay

Let Us Not Talk About the Climate Crisis Any Longer (Part Two) - essay

"No problem can be solved from the consciousness that created that problem." Albert Einstein "The current convergence of crises -in the...

Nov 18, 202259 min read

Essays

He Who Shall Not Be Named - essay

In which is told about why it would be good to stop using the name of you-know-who, or use it as little as possible, about why this is...

May 1, 202524 min read

Never Mind the COPS - Negotiating With Ourselves - essay

And something about the five stages of grief © Photo: Ágnes Nagygyörgy “After the final no there comes a yes And on that yes the future...

Feb 12, 202415 min read

A Selfie of Planet Earth - essay

Earth and moon seen by the NASA probe OSIRIS-REx, from a distance of five million kilometers, October 2017. “I believe the Cosmos is...

Oct 30, 202318 min read

To all essays

Featured video

Two-hour presentation by Nate Hagens on the meta-crisis, the coming Great Simplification, and possible paths to a better world. A fascinating lecture by one of the world's leading experts on the ecological crisis, energy, the financial system, and the other systems that keep our global technological “superorganism” running.

From the post 'The Great Simplification - A Biosphere Project Blog'

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“We can however still change direction. But the only way that I can see of our effectively changing direction is through a

transformation of the feeling that we have of our own existence

and of what we mean by the word ‘I’. “

-Alan Watts

“And since new ideas will not come if their entry into the mind is subject to conformity with our old ones and with what we call common sense, this demands of the reader - as it demanded of the author - a willing suspension of common sense.”
-Norman O. Brown

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
- Kahlin Gibran

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
-Chief Seattle

"We are beginning to see the entire universe as a holographically interlinked network of energy and information, organically whole and self referential at all scales of its existence. We, and all things in the universe, are non-locally connected with each other and with all other things in ways that are unfettered by the hitherto known limitations of space and time."
-Ervin Laszlo

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Filip Van Kerckhoven

A Biosphere Project

"You are not a separate being. You belong to the living body of Earth. You are the Earth, becoming conscious of itself." -Joanna Macy (1929 - 2025)

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make” - Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

Welcome to the website of A Biosphere Project!

"To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again." -Herman Hesse

"One of the first conditions for happiness is that the link between humankind and nature shall not be broken." -Leo Tolstoy

A Biosphere Project

A search for the origins of the crisis between mankind and nature

You can unsubscribe at any time. A Biosphere Project does not share data with third parties

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror." - Kahlil Gibran

Featured

The Most Important Echo Chamber of All - Musings and Meditations

Warm Enough? (There Is Bad News ánd Good News) - A Biosphere Project Blog

"We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives." -David Richo

“You cannot experience one day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what difference you want to make. ” -Jane Goodall

Musings and Meditations

A series of blog posts with short and sometimes somewhat longer reflections, musings, and all sorts of ideas, with an emphasis on hope and the possibility of a better world.

The Most Important Echo Chamber of All - Musings and Meditations

Echo Chambers (Continued) - Musings and Meditations

The Echo Chamber You Don't Realize You're In - Musings and Meditations

Spacetime Is the Memory of a Self Knowing Universe (Federico Faggin! Part Two) - Musings and Meditations

The Genius of Frederico Faggin! - Musings and Meditations

Dean Radin’s Wonderful Story on Meaningful Coincidence - Musings and Meditations

"The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world." - Joanna Macy (1929 - 2025)

"No problem can be solved from the consciousness that created that problem." - Albert Einstein

Walkie-Talkies

A series of short videos in which I talk while walking in nature, without a script, about all kinds of topics covered in A Biosphere Project, with an emphasis on new ways of looking at reality and ourselves.

Walkie-Talkie #12 ‘What Can Molehills Teach Us About Science and Our Paradigm?’

Walkie-Talkie #11 ‘What Is Wrong With Our World View? Everything, Pretty Much!’

Walkie-Talkie #10 ‘Why Mind (Or Never Mind?)’

Walkie-Talkie #9 'Yes! The Word Exists! (And Something About Willam James)'

Walkie-Talkie #8 'Pay Attention to the Spaces in Between'

Walkie-Talkie #7 'Something About Atoms, Deer, Diagrams and Consensus Reality'

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey." - Wendell Berry

- Margaret Mead

Blog

The blog brings you posts and updates related to A Biosphere Project, updates on all aspects of the project, journal entries, in-depth articles, book reviews, and so on.

Recent blog posts

Warm Enough? (There Is Bad News ánd Good News) - A Biosphere Project Blog

Writing After the Flood - A Biosphere Project Blog

Fundraiser! - A Biosphere Project Blog

New Year’s Resolutions - A Biosphere Project Blog

Best Wishes - A Biosphere Project Blog

The Travels, an Update - A Biosphere Project Blog

"Thoughts can organize the world in such a way that that world becomes invisible." -Anthony De Mello

Featured essay

Let Us Not Talk About the Climate Crisis Any Longer (Part Two) - essay

Essays

He Who Shall Not Be Named - essay

Never Mind the COPS - Negotiating With Ourselves - essay

A Selfie of Planet Earth - essay

Featured video

You can terminate your membership at any time. A Biosphere Project does not share data with third parties

-Alan Watts

“And since new ideas will not come if their entry into the mind is subject to conformity with our old ones and with what we call common sense, this demands of the reader - as it demanded of the author - a willing suspension of common sense.” -Norman O. Brown

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror." - Kahlin Gibran

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” -Chief Seattle ​

You can unsubscribe at any time. A Biosphere Project does not share data with third parties

You can terminate your membership at any time. A Biosphere Project does not share data with third parties

"You are not a separate being. You belong to the living body of Earth. You are the Earth, becoming conscious of itself."
-Joanna Macy (1929 - 2025)

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make”
- Jane Goodall (1934-2025)

"To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again."
-Herman Hesse

"One of the first conditions for happiness is that the link between humankind and nature shall not be broken."
-Leo Tolstoy

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
- Kahlil Gibran

"We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives."
-David Richo

“You cannot experience one day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what difference you want to make. ”
-Jane Goodall

"The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world."
- Joanna Macy (1929 - 2025)

"No problem can be solved from the consciousness that created that problem."
- Albert Einstein

"It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work
and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey."
- Wendell Berry

"Thoughts can organize the world in such a way that that world becomes invisible."
-Anthony De Mello

“And since new ideas will not come if their entry into the mind is subject to conformity with our old ones and with what we call common sense, this demands of the reader - as it demanded of the author - a willing suspension of common sense.”
-Norman O. Brown

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror."
- Kahlin Gibran

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.”
-Chief Seattle