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Peter Reason
@peterreason.bsky.social
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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
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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · 22d
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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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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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Aug 18
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...
Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Aug 7
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
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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Aug 2
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...
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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Jul 18
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
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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Jun 26
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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Jun 20
Wonderful to go singing with Nightingales with Sam Lee!
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ShinyNewBooks @shinynewbooks.bsky.social · Jun 17
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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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Jun 10
[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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Hawkwood @hawkwoodcft.bsky.social · Jan 16
🌊 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.

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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Jan 13
'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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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Dec 31
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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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Dec 30
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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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Dec 19
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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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Dec 16
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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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Dec 9
What are these strange clips for, and how to they remind Tim of his father? New post in Objects&Lives
Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Dec 4
Fantastic. Well done. Properly published. Persistence +quality pays off.
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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Dec 3
What is the story behind this Moroccan Pottery Charger that leads me to love it so much? Another post in Objects&Lives.
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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Nov 27
... 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.
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Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Nov 25
'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.'
Peter Reason @peterreason.bsky.social · Nov 18
Where did this curious carved box come from? and what is the link between Hull and Archangel? and what did June's father know about it?