A New Map of Wonders

What is wonder? How far back does it go? Do non-human beings experience it? There’s a well-known video (well-known, at least, to those of...

Ecstasy comes from the Greek 'ekstasis', meaning 'to step outside oneself' like the medieval mystics did to experience fait...

Groovy tracks from the 1100s O Nobilissima Viridatas by Hildegard of Bingen (listen  here )  translates from Latin as follows: O most n...

Some believe that the boundary between the inner and the outer core [of the Earth] is undulating and mushy, with the iron crystals growin...

Navigation is about understanding and watching nature. Everything you need to guide you is in the ocean, but you need to be skilled enoug...

All other mental faculties — imagination, conscience, intuition, the unconscious mind — are theoretical and inferred, and may be differen...

What I described in Another Life — about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened — is a frequent experience ...