Life Cairns: Embracing Grief, Building Hope By Kocku von Stuckrad We are living in a time of profound transformation. The powers east and west of the Atlantic—which, as Edouard Glissant pointed out, is the site of the largest unmarked grave in history—are losing their influence. Past privileges are being challenged, Read more
Doggerland Entanglements By Kocku von Stuckrad Imagine that the land between Great Britain, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands was not covered by water. Instead, it consisted of a landscape rich in plant, animal, and fungi life with hills and rivers, making it an ideal habitat for hunter-gatherer-fisher communities (human and Read more
Introducing “Mitwelt” Ethics By Kocku von Stuckrad We’re in the midst of a planetary transformation that needs new ideas and new languages for building healthier relationships between humans and the nonhuman worlds. In recent years, a new way of thinking has taken hold in the sciences and the arts that challenges Read more
Change Comes from the Arts By Kocku von Stuckrad The relational turn is in full swing. More and more people realize that thinking in strict categories, or even binaries, lies at the roots of the planetary crisis we’re finding ourselves in. It is particularly the European heritage of toxic binaries Read more
Celebrating Five Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad If we want to address the major challenges of the 21st century—first and foremost climate disasters, human and other-than-human interdependencies on a global scale, as well as issues of social justice—concerted action is needed to Read more
Esoterik und Spiritualität in Deutschland – eine schwierige Diskussion Von Kocku von Stuckrad [ Zur englischen Version dieses Textes geht es hier entlang | For the English version of this blog post, click here] Heute wurde eine weitere Folge der ZDF-Sendung „13 Fragen“ ausgestrahlt, ein Debattenformat, in dem zwei Gruppen Read more
Discussing Esotericism and Spirituality in Germany By Kocku von Stuckrad [For the German version of this blog post, click here | Zur deutschen Version dieses Textes geht es hier entlang] Today, the German public-service television broadcaster ZDF launched another episode of the show “13 Fragen” (“13 Questions”). This is a Read more
Decolonizing for the Planetary Community A Counterpoint Conversation at the conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) Please join us online for a Counterpoint Conversation and panel discussion at this year’s ISSRNC conference! Conference theme: “After Earth? Religion and Technology on a Changing Read more
On Environmental Grief By Kocku von Stuckrad Last week, yet another devastating report about the ecological state of the planet was published: WWF and Zoological Society of London’s biennial Living Planet Report. It confirms (again) that the abundance of birds, fish, amphibians, and reptiles is in freefall, plummeting by 69% Read more
Under the Radar of Hegemonic Perception: Alternative Spiritualities By Kocku von Stuckrad If you ask people in western Europe and North America if they have confidence in Christianity, economic forecast, astrology, or other providers of meaning, between 20 and 35 per cent favor astrology over Christianity and economic forecast. Astrology, Read more