Writing
Essays on philosophy, poetics, and the practices that ask us to slow down. Written by Laura Cincera for The Museion community.
No, we are not saving the Earth
On maturity, reverence, and the end of the hero myth
The natural world is not waiting to be rescued. And certainly not by us. The belief that we could "save" Earth reveals a deep lack of humility.
Read essay →A philosophy that is erotic, juicy and alive
Out of the Palace of Mind into the dark wet soil
On reimagining philosophy as living, sensuous, embodied. A meditation on muses, museions, and the love of wisdom.
Read essay →We Were Never Meant to Grieve Alone
Rituals of sorrow, rivers of joy and the alchemical work of grief
Grief is a catalyst for joy and radical vitality. We grieve more than lives lost - we grieve relationships, ecologies, parts of ourselves. We were never meant to carry sorrow alone.
Read essay →Reweirding: How Our Strangeness Serves The Whole
The forgotten power of weird
Weirdness was once a word for fate. Maybe it still is. An invitation to reclaim our uniqueness as service to the whole.
Read essay →When the Sun Stands Still
The Poetics of Darkness
On solstice, stillness, and the poetics of darkness. An invitation to honour the turning of light and dark.
Read essay →Research is a love affair with the unknown
An Ecology of Ways of Knowing
Reclaiming research as a sovereign practice of attention. A love affair with the unknown, a willingness to be surprised by Life.
Read essay →Dancing with Spaciousness
Of Nomads, Sabbaticals and Time out of Time
On taking a sabbatical, the Raute people of Nepal, and remembering that time is a convention, not a fact of nature.
Read essay →From 'New Normal' to 'New Possible'
How to welcome a full range of emotional experience and create space for transformation
On the language we use to describe these times, why 'the new normal' is problematic, and contemplative practices for cultivating presence.
Read essay →What a coffee place on a graveyard taught me about our relationship to death
On endings, fungi, and the wisdom of dancing with uncertainty
A meditation on death as a creative force, the nature/culture divide, and what fungi can teach us about cyclicality.
Read essay →Stay close
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