TED’s recent censorship of talks by controversial thinkers Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake has sparked a public internet outrage and a fascinating debate A violation of free speech? Last week, TED – the US not-for-profit, media giant dedicating to “ideas worth spreading” – banned two fascinating and controversial TEDx talks by leading consciousness pioneers, [...]
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A drive to become a world leading sugar producer threatens the livelihoods of thousands of people in rural areas. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The Lower Omo Valley in south-western Ethiopia is a vast and rugged region of mountains and valleys, inhabited largely by nomadic agro-pastoralist tribes numbering some 200,000 people. Many live a simple existence, [...]
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A report on the pioneering efforts of Amanda Feilding and the Beckley Foundation in Improving Our Drug Policies By Deborah Parrish Snyder Magic mushrooms, international law and the failed ‘war on drugs’ is what Amanda Feilding, founder and director of the Beckley Foundation, wrote about for the Guardian’s Science section on 6 February 2012. This [...]
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Another reminder that Rupert Isaacson, US author of The Horse Boy – the celebrated book about his extraordinary quest to heal his autistic son among the shamanic healers and horses of Mongolia – will be coming to Cheltenham on Friday 29th July (7-10pm) to present a screening of The Horse Boy film and a Q&A [...]
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In a bid to curb climate change and growing destruction to the natural world, Bolivia is set to be the first country in the world to pass a law giving NATURE the same legal rights as humans, including the rights to pure water, clean air and freedom from contamination. Bolivia has suffered major environmental problems [...]
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Primal Scream took their seminal 90s album Screamadelica to the Eden Project on Thursday, the sprawling eco haven with its immense iconic biomes making a spectacular backdrop to the live rocking dance anthems and psychedelic visual swirls of a band that continue to enthral a crowd 20 years on since their heyday with album’s inception. [...]
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Bristol’s Queen Square played host to Celebrating Sanctuary, an intercultural arts event which kick started National Refugee Week celebrations in the city, marking the great contribution refugees have made to the social, cultural, economic and political life of the UK in the last 60 years. The one-day festival event proffered a wealth of fantastic music [...]
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One of the UK’s most inspiring spiritual festivals returns next month (Wednesday 13th – Sunday 17th July) to a beautiful Devonshire site. With Friends of the Western Buddhist Order at the festival’s helm, Buddhafield’s strong Buddhist focus is colourfully reflected in a series of elaborate rituals, ceremonies and processions throughout, while the range of music, [...]
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‘Granddaddy of UK Shamanism’ Leo Rutherford, who has advised Vodaphone and other businesses on the practical application of shamanism in the modern world, will be sharing his knowledge of the world’s most ancient and universal spiritual path at the Isbourne Holistic Centre in Cheltenham next weekend (17th/18th June), and explaining how it can be used [...]
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