We Need Elders, Not Heroes By Kocku von Stuckrad When Barry Lopez’s long-awaited book Horizon came out earlier this year, I read it immediately with increasing excitement and admiration. Twenty-three years after his now-classic Arctic Read more…
Counterpoint One Year On: Reflections and Experiences By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad One trip around the sun, four seasons, four events, and fifty blog posts later, Counterpoint is turning one! We have Read more…
Here’s to Astrology! By Kocku von Stuckrad Astrology is a fascinating and controversial topic. Many people in Europe and North America share the idea that astrology is some superstitious gibberish (perhaps with the exception of Read more…
Looking Back: A Report on the Paradoxical Plausibilities Symposium – Astrological Interpretation from Different Perspectives (13–14 April, Berlin) By Sophia Löwe The question of astrological plausibility seems to spur endless discussions. Most professional astrologers and Read more…
Point/Counterpoint: A Blogger Exchange Point: Ending the Taker Culture By Loriliai Biernacki In a May 15th Counterpoint posting, Kocku von Stuckrad made the case for an alternative to the “Taker culture,” that is destroying our planetary Read more…
Unholy Alliances and the End of Taker Culture By Kocku von Stuckrad When on 6 May 2019 the United Nations published the new Report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Read more…
Poetic Science: How Literature Conveys Knowledge of Nature By Kocku von Stuckrad For most non-specialists, much information about the natural world is drawn from newspapers, TV, and popular books. Even scientists are influenced by those Read more…
Accountability or Objectivity? By Kocku von Stuckrad Are scholars the guardians of the Grail of Truth? Is there a truth that scholars have to insist on over against the “invention of Read more…
Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual by Kocku von Stuckrad Download a PDF Version of this essay (6 MB) Abstract The five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching Read more…
Berlin’s Contrapuntal Agency: Or, How Admitting the Knowledge of Place Can Change Science, Politics, and Culture by Kocku von Stuckrad Do places have knowledge? Do they have memory? If places convey these to us, is Read more…
