Wendell Berry: novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, and last but not least: farmer. Dear friends, Following Ervin László and Richard Heinberg, another great and wise soul has passed this month: Wendell Berry has died at the age of 92. I had already reported on the passing of László and Heinberg in the blog post ‘Short Update’. With the passing of Wendell Berry, the planet has once more become a little poorer, I was almost tempted to write, but of course that is n

Dear friends, Due to circumstances, it’s been a while since I last sent a Walkie-Talkie out into the world. But to make up for it, you’ll get a bit of extra time! During this walk, which lasts about thirty minutes, I talk about the climate disaster summer in Europe and other parts of the world. I discuss the still (very) inadequate attention being paid to this increasing climate misery, and the abominable response from governments and political actors worldwide. The political

Short! Short! New blog series on the way The passing of Richard Heinberg and Ervin László No more new audio versions Walkie-talkies will come back Dear friends, I regularly receive feedback on my blog and musings, and it’s usually very positive – something that really encourages me on my journey. It’s very nice to know that the posts I share with the world often mean something to many of you. One comment I’ve received quite often in the past is that my blog posts and musings

A fascinating interview with Rob Hopkins by Nate Hagens. Every minute of the 94-minute interview is worth watching: Why is the ecological crisis a “crisis of the imagination?” Dear friends, In my previous post, “Apocaloptimism,” I concluded with a reference to the work of Rob Hopkins, and I promised you an interview with this pioneer of the transition to a different and more beautiful world. I’ll keep this introductory text brief: any attempt to summarize this delightful and

Beach-goers rest on the shore of Lake Lacanau as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from the Gironde wildfire in southwestern France on July 24, 2026. A haunting, iconic image that quickly went viral. Maximilien Lamy—AFP/Getty Images Dear friends, I wasn’t planning to write any blog posts during my vacation, but current events in Europe (and elsewhere in the world, though as usual we hear less about those) have made me feel that I must—and want to—pick up my pen again. But jus

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 Dear 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

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! Dear 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 meaningful

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

Interview with Àlex Gómez-Marín by Essentia Foundation. The first few minutes are a trailer and summary; the actual interview begins at 2:55 Dear friends, I would like to share this extraordinary interview with an extraordinary scientist with you. Àlex Gómez-Marín holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics; he is a neuroscientist and philosopher, director of the Laboratory of Organism Behavior at the Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante, and director of the Pari Center (you can a

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

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

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

Half-hour interview with New York physician, scientist, and philosopher Neil Theise, on complexity, emergence, and consciousness as the basis of reality. Dear friends, As promised in the previous post, I will begin this series Musings and Meditations by introducing a number of remarkable scientists and philosophers whose work opens up extraordinary perspectives on a possible new understanding of what the world actually is, and what we actually are. All these extraordinary sci

Lake Balaton, Hungary, April 2025 Dear friends, Let us first turn the above question around: why short and sweet? This, of course, refers to resolution number six in the recent blog post ‘New Year’s Resolutions’: the intention to strive for conciseness and brevity in this blog from now on. This is really a serious challenge for me, but one that I am taking on with determination! Brevity means, in concrete terms: a maximum of 1200 words, whereas posts have been at times three

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

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

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

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. Dear 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

“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) “One individual alone cannot possibly make a difference. It is individual efforts, collectively, that make a noticeable difference. All the difference in the world.” Jane Goodall (1934-2025) Short interview with Jane Goodall dating from 2021. A ten-minute video in whic

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...

D ear friends, In this third ‘Walkie-Talkie,’ I continue to talk about why I stopped my practice as a visual artist to devote myself to the ecological meta-crisis. I discuss our tendency to consider the maps we have created as more real than the terrain, how our concepts and maps prevent us from seeing solutions and possibilities because they do not fit into our concepts, and why we cannot see the various aspects of the meta-crisis, such as the climate crisis, the biodiversit

D ear friends, In this second ‘Walkie-Talkie’, I talk about why we need to see the distinction between ‘nature’ and ‘civilization’ in a different perspective, why we need to feel much more that we too are part of nature, and why we should stop using the word ‘ the environment ’. I also begin to explain why it was necessary and relevant for me to exchange my paintbrushes for A Biosphere Project. I begin that story by explaining how my visual art dealt with all the topics that

"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 conversation between Phillip Maiwald and myself about the concept of the Integrity Climate Choirs. Dear friends, To kick off a new “season” on the A Biosphere Project blog, I would like to share this video of a recent Zoom conversation between myself and my friend Phillip Maiwald, about Phillip's concept of the ‘Integrity Climate Choirs’. Phi

“You are not a separate being. You belong to the living body of Earth. You are the Earth, becoming conscious of itself.” Joanna Macy...

In which is told about what I've been up to during the pause in the blog, about the new stuff and goodies you can find on the website,...

In which is told about a short pause in the blog, about how I won't be idle during that break, with at the end a hint about what you can...

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...

“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,...

In which is told about Nate Hagens and his message, about the inevitability of a major change in the way we live, about the ways in which...