I’m almost finished reading your book, can hardly leave it down. It feels a relief to find your way of articulating the current world situation. I didn’t know I was waiting for this book, but it seems I was. I know I will need to reread it.
...." other ways to bring Heaven and Earth into relation". I was very struck by what Meziane, at the Black Elephant lecture, had to say about what he called the "secularocene". Does it not seem to chime with what David Cayley tells us about Illich's narrative of the Great Inversion "Corruptio optimi quae est pessima". Also, as suggested this evening at Mill Hill Chapel, perhaps midwifery among the ruins is another form the work may take, in addition to hospicing. Stephen Faller's 2015 book The Art of Spiritual Midwifery: Dialogues and Dialectic in the Classical Tradition comes to mind. (Btw, It was Raimon Pannikar, who was the brilliant Spanish Hindu priest, and collaborator with Illich at the "Real" Earth Summit in Orford, Quebec,1992.)
Great reflection. I too am a big fan of John Berger and keep returning to his essays. Such breadth and depth. I am waiting to pick up a book in Dartington on Friday so here's hoping there are some left. Enjoy the rest of your journey. Thanks for the poems too.
I'd be grateful for one of your signed hard copies, Dougald.
I enjoyed your reading on the Audibubble put there's nothing better than getting the vinyl these days. Let me know how I/we can order direct. Thanks and thanks (for your work)
I’m almost finished reading your book, can hardly leave it down. It feels a relief to find your way of articulating the current world situation. I didn’t know I was waiting for this book, but it seems I was. I know I will need to reread it.
...." other ways to bring Heaven and Earth into relation". I was very struck by what Meziane, at the Black Elephant lecture, had to say about what he called the "secularocene". Does it not seem to chime with what David Cayley tells us about Illich's narrative of the Great Inversion "Corruptio optimi quae est pessima". Also, as suggested this evening at Mill Hill Chapel, perhaps midwifery among the ruins is another form the work may take, in addition to hospicing. Stephen Faller's 2015 book The Art of Spiritual Midwifery: Dialogues and Dialectic in the Classical Tradition comes to mind. (Btw, It was Raimon Pannikar, who was the brilliant Spanish Hindu priest, and collaborator with Illich at the "Real" Earth Summit in Orford, Quebec,1992.)
Somewhere Berger wrote I am among other things a Marxist. I guess the other things are so crucial to who he was.
Great reflection. I too am a big fan of John Berger and keep returning to his essays. Such breadth and depth. I am waiting to pick up a book in Dartington on Friday so here's hoping there are some left. Enjoy the rest of your journey. Thanks for the poems too.
I'd be grateful for one of your signed hard copies, Dougald.
I enjoyed your reading on the Audibubble put there's nothing better than getting the vinyl these days. Let me know how I/we can order direct. Thanks and thanks (for your work)