art & poetry for spiritual evolution
Waterlight is a film project inspired by a chalk stream in Cambridgeshire, the Mel, which runs between the villages of Melbourn and Shepreth. Waterlight began as a collaboration between poet and writer Clare Crossman and James Murray-White. The project team grew to include local expert Bruce Huett and filmmaker Nigel Kinnings.
Continue reading “Waterlight – portrait of a chalk stream in winter”
A fascinating book we previous reviewed ‘Zen and Artificial Intelligence’ by Paul Powell is now out in paperback, for half the price of the hardback –25.99 from Cambridge Scholars Publishing:
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-3704-0
Urthona and other reviews mentioned by CSP highlight the playful quality of this volume, in which deep ideas about Zen, Literature (including the Lord of the Rings) and AI are explored from the point of view of a post modern Zen practitioner.
Waterlight, is a film project inspired by a chalk stream in Cambridgeshire. Waterlight began as a collaboration between poet and writer Clare Crossman and filmmaker James Murray-White, and the project team has now grew to include local expert Bruce Huett and filmmaker Nigel Kinnings.
Continue reading “Waterlight – the story of an Enligish chalk stream”
Cowboy Meditation Primer – poetry sequence by Mary McCray
(Taster from Urthona issue 35 ‘American Zen’ – order from Urthona Shop above)
A unique sequence of poems in which the hard lives and gritty adventures of cowboys on the trails of 19th Century New Mexico are combined with Buddhist Wisdom.
Continue reading “Cowboy Zen”
Ginsberg and the Beats
Highlight from issue 35 American Zen: a personal appreciation by writer Acarasiddhi (Tony Press) who grew up in 1950s California.
Zen and Artificial Intelligence by PAUL ANDREW POWELL
Crucial topics of modernity from a Zen point of view, book review by Ratnagarbha
Fenland mist at Stow-cum-Quy
Ratnagarbha visits the intriguing part of Cambridgeshire known as the fenland edges on a cold, dank and misty January morning.
The passing of poet and educationalist Peter Abbs
Ratnagarbha remembers a writer of vision who was a friend of the magazine and sadly passed away at the age of 78 in December of 2020.
‘Where are all the dark paths now? The Pure Land itself is near’ – Zen Master Hakuin.
Exploring the countryside and lanes of Dorset
Modern literature; occasional straying into other paths.
Poems, thoughts...etc.
What to Read Next and Why
Curiosities, exploration, strange things and history
Dark and True and Tender is the North
Poems | England | Staffordshire | East Anglia | Northern Ireland | The Needwood Poems.
art & poetry for spiritual evolution
Exploring Time Travel of Place
Recent work and work in progress and anything else that interests me
Places, books & other diversions
Nature writing for the ecological crisis
art & poetry for spiritual evolution
The Art of Psychogeography
art & poetry for spiritual evolution
Recent work and work in progress and anything else that interests me
art & poetry for spiritual evolution
walking / writing / between world and word
Photos and essays of geo-poetry, nature and landscape
A journey into photography and life.
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