Category: Our Collective
Posts about people in the Collective
Memories of Wild Places
Back in 2005 I was living in Nelson, a small lifestyle town on the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand—said to have the best weather in all of New Zealand. Clear sunny skies and in winter to the west you could see the towering snow capped peaks of the Southern Alps. I [...]
Tantric Buddhism and Inter-being
[dropcap]My[/dropcap] dharma friend, Catherine Paul, recently visited Kakadu in the Northern Territory. Visiting this protected wilderness area, she felt the full benefit of her years as a member of the full-time practising sangha at the Lerab Ling retreat centre in the south of France. She posted this on Facebook : According to Tantric Buddhism, everywhere [...]
There is a new appetite for serious reflection
Writing in the Observer this weekend, Alex Preston draws our attention to the publishing phenomena of a growing interest in serious books. As he says, the story of Sapiens is about a book becoming part of a national conversation. “Readers like to read the same book, particularly if it’s a good and interesting one,” Daunt says, “because [...]
Welcoming Ian Brown to the Wild Mountain Collective
[dropcap]Can[/dropcap] art change the world? I’ve never liked this question, its too simplistic. History and common sense say that almost anything can provoke change in society, from the smallest event or trend to the cataclysmic. But mostly it happens from a combination of many accumulating ‘nudges’. I often think about the famous quote from Margaret [...]
Welcoming Damian Castaldi to the Wild Mountain Collective
I have been introduced to the Wild Mountain Collective and Barbara Lepani by Katrina Noorbergen, the program officer at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre because of my sonic arts background and interest in recording and composing soundscapes. I am interested in some of it’s core principles, a deep concern for the environment, sustainability and the [...]
Freya Mathews on Relating to the Natural World
Freya Mathews is one of Australia's leading environmental philosophers and a practising Daoist. She has explored the way in which Daoism gives us a different way of relating to the natural world. Freya has agreed to support the Wild Mountain Collective, and we have created a window into her website here so that you can [...]
In Search of the Wild Archetype
Back in 1992 Clarissa Pinkola Estés published 'Women Who Run With the Wolves', a book that would transfix American culture, spending two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Her book is a call to recover the wild within us in the face of the deadening impact on our inner psyches of the economism [...]
Encountering the Wild in the Trobriand Islands
It never occurred to me to go to Papua New Guinea. I wanted to go to Paris. I was in love with the world of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre. However during a demonstration in Sydney in support of the Gurindji people who had claimed the right to live on their own land, [...]