Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
Writer; retired academic. Exploring a panpsychic worldview in a series of co-operative inquiries with River. Papers on action research, nature writing, panpsychism & much more peterreason.net. Posting on Learning How Land Speaks peterreason.substack.com
Objects and Lives. The carved wooden cabinet that carries unspoken family memories. 'In this account Kate (almost) disappears; but she remains with us through her woodcarving. they hold her presence with us so long as the stories are told" objectsandlives.substack.com/p/carved-woo...
October 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Objects and Lives. The carved wooden cabinet that carries unspoken family memories. 'In this account Kate (almost) disappears; but she remains with us through her woodcarving. they hold her presence with us so long as the stories are told" objectsandlives.substack.com/p/carved-woo...
Living Waters 2026, a panpsychic co-operative inquiry exploring River as living presence. If we invoke their living presence, address them as subjects and as persons, what manner of response might we receive? www.schumachercollege.org/living-waters
Schumacher College - Living Waters — Schumacher College
Schumacher College and Schumacher Wild offer holistic, ecological, transformative and transdisciplinary education. We offer both short courses and foundation courses local to Totnes, Devon and South D...
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October 18, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Living Waters 2026, a panpsychic co-operative inquiry exploring River as living presence. If we invoke their living presence, address them as subjects and as persons, what manner of response might we receive? www.schumachercollege.org/living-waters
Love, Anger and Betrayal is one of the most hard-hitting books on the science and politics of climate change I have read.
Personal profiles of twenty-six young Just Stop Oil activists interwoven with Porritt's deeply informed perspective
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Personal profiles of twenty-six young Just Stop Oil activists interwoven with Porritt's deeply informed perspective
shinynewbooks.co.uk/love-anger-b...
Love, Anger & Betrayal: Just Stop Oil’s young climate campaigners, by Jonathan Porritt
Review by Peter Reason
Sir Jonathon Espie Porritt, 2nd Baronet, CBE, Eton and Oxford; one might imagine him as a pillar of the British Establishment. Then you remember he was co-founder of the
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September 16, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Love, Anger and Betrayal is one of the most hard-hitting books on the science and politics of climate change I have read.
Personal profiles of twenty-six young Just Stop Oil activists interwoven with Porritt's deeply informed perspective
shinynewbooks.co.uk/love-anger-b...
Personal profiles of twenty-six young Just Stop Oil activists interwoven with Porritt's deeply informed perspective
shinynewbooks.co.uk/love-anger-b...
Narratives, images and video from Sara Mark’s Dwelling Places inquiry. “Over the summer I have offered oil and sage-smoke to my lintels and doorposts, and grain to the thresholds of my North London flat… I have also offered water and wine to the avenue of London Plane trees...
August 18, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Narratives, images and video from Sara Mark’s Dwelling Places inquiry. “Over the summer I have offered oil and sage-smoke to my lintels and doorposts, and grain to the thresholds of my North London flat… I have also offered water and wine to the avenue of London Plane trees...
In this second post from the Dwelling Places co-operative inquiry, Ľubos Slovak describes some of the challenges he encountered as he became acquainted with a new Dwelling
August 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
In this second post from the Dwelling Places co-operative inquiry, Ľubos Slovak describes some of the challenges he encountered as he became acquainted with a new Dwelling
My father loved flowers, especially sweet peas which he grew in rows in the vegetable garden.. he would go out and carefully dead head, tie them in them, and pick bunches to take indoors. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/clarice-cl...
August 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
My father loved flowers, especially sweet peas which he grew in rows in the vegetable garden.. he would go out and carefully dead head, tie them in them, and pick bunches to take indoors. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/clarice-cl...
New post in Objects & Lives.: One summer day in the 1960s, David and Ann drove up to our house in Wandsworth Common in the Ford Transit van. They unloaded a decorative urn, a surprise present for my parents, which was swiftly dubbed ‘The Ruin’. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/the-ruin
July 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
New post in Objects & Lives.: One summer day in the 1960s, David and Ann drove up to our house in Wandsworth Common in the Ford Transit van. They unloaded a decorative urn, a surprise present for my parents, which was swiftly dubbed ‘The Ruin’. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/the-ruin
Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!
June 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!
Reposted by Peter Reason
Shiny Tuesday: @peterreason.bsky.social reviews Bird School by Adam Nicolson. 'Throughout, the writing is gorgeous – elegant yet unfussy, richly descriptive without over-doing it, ' shinynewbooks.co.uk/bird-school-...
Bird School: A beginner in the wood by Adam Nicolson
Review by Peter Reason
‘The first time I met a bird close-up, it was dead. A raven.’
From this grab-your-attention first line and the evocative description of this encounter, I am ho
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June 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Shiny Tuesday: @peterreason.bsky.social reviews Bird School by Adam Nicolson. 'Throughout, the writing is gorgeous – elegant yet unfussy, richly descriptive without over-doing it, ' shinynewbooks.co.uk/bird-school-...
[email protected] My review of Is a River Alive is at shinynewbooks.co.uk/is-a-river-a... @shinynewbooks.bsky.social
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Review by Peter Reason
It is very unlikely that many readers of Shiny New Books have missed Robert Macfarlane’s new book. It has been reviewed in most of the major periodicals; chosen as ‘
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June 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
[email protected] My review of Is a River Alive is at shinynewbooks.co.uk/is-a-river-a... @shinynewbooks.bsky.social
Reposted by Peter Reason
🌊 Living Waters | 11th March - 29th April - An 8-week online course, exploring the panpsychic view that everything in the world, including rivers and the Earth, is interconnected with mind and matter deeply intertwined.
hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...
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January 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM
🌊 Living Waters | 11th March - 29th April - An 8-week online course, exploring the panpsychic view that everything in the world, including rivers and the Earth, is interconnected with mind and matter deeply intertwined.
hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...
hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/our-programm...
'When Nanna died about ten years after the war and the house was cleared, Ann took possession of the dinner service. “Why would you want that, dear?”'
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Wedgwood Soup Bowl c 1880
At Turret Lodge, my grandmother’s house on Wandsworth Common, London, the front door was at the top of three wide steps.
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January 13, 2025 at 8:22 PM
'When Nanna died about ten years after the war and the house was cleared, Ann took possession of the dinner service. “Why would you want that, dear?”'
open.substack.com/pub/objectsa...
open.substack.com/pub/objectsa...
A knitting needle stuck in a champagne cork serves as a cake tester. How long has this been in the family? objectsandlives.substack.com/p/cake-tester
Cake tester
“Come and help me see that the cake is done,” Elizabeth calls from the kitchen.
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December 31, 2024 at 10:26 AM
A knitting needle stuck in a champagne cork serves as a cake tester. How long has this been in the family? objectsandlives.substack.com/p/cake-tester
The experience at the heart of enchantment is sheer existential wonder, and it comes… “as a gift or not at all.” New post on Learning How Land Speaks peterreason.substack.com/p/oak-and-wa...
Oak and water
Three of us – David, Dave, and myself – are tentatively moving our inquiry from a focus on River to a focus on the places where we live, our Dwelling Places.
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December 30, 2024 at 12:06 PM
The experience at the heart of enchantment is sheer existential wonder, and it comes… “as a gift or not at all.” New post on Learning How Land Speaks peterreason.substack.com/p/oak-and-wa...
Delighted to announce Living Waters 2025, a co-operative inquiry into sentient and communicative waterways drawing on living cosmos panpsychism. For more information and registration hawkwood-website.vercel.app/our-programm...
Living Waters
A panpsychic view starts from the understanding that all things, including the Earth itself, are integral to the fabric of the living cosmos, all of the same sentient cloth. Mind is a fundamental aspe...
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December 19, 2024 at 10:17 AM
Delighted to announce Living Waters 2025, a co-operative inquiry into sentient and communicative waterways drawing on living cosmos panpsychism. For more information and registration hawkwood-website.vercel.app/our-programm...
This is the story of Gracie, who come to work for my grandmother in her early teens and stayed with the family for the rest of her life. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/glass-salt...
Glass Salt Cellars
These glass salt cellars were gift from Gracie for my 21st birthday.
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December 16, 2024 at 5:49 PM
This is the story of Gracie, who come to work for my grandmother in her early teens and stayed with the family for the rest of her life. objectsandlives.substack.com/p/glass-salt...
What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives
December 9, 2024 at 8:58 AM
What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives
What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.
December 3, 2024 at 6:13 PM
What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.
... the sentient world is full of gestures and narratives, and that those of us socialized into a western worldview are far more likely to ignore what is before our eyes than to see what isn’t there.
November 27, 2024 at 3:28 PM
... the sentient world is full of gestures and narratives, and that those of us socialized into a western worldview are far more likely to ignore what is before our eyes than to see what isn’t there.
'Now the cow parsley has dropped petals all over the carpet, so they go on in the compost bin. I return the vase to the top shelf, its fugitive memories still hovering around.'
November 25, 2024 at 10:54 AM
'Now the cow parsley has dropped petals all over the carpet, so they go on in the compost bin. I return the vase to the top shelf, its fugitive memories still hovering around.'