In Correspondence #4
Welcome to the fourth instalment of In Correspondence!
What I’ve been up to
Soar Mill Cove
I co-hosted the first social of the Psychedelic Society of Totnes, which has become the Psychedelic Society: Devon group
I participated on a panel at the Oddball discussing different ways of understanding psychedelics
I was part of the BeeHive camp at Kiez Burn 2019
I held a trialogue with Rupert Sheldrake and Robin Carhart-Harris at EartH, Hackney
I did an interview and photoshoot for a piece to appear in Emerge
I agreed a let on an apartment in Totnes
I made my first darknet order in a while
I helped launch the new organisation Psilocybin for Mental Health (psilocybin.health)
I announced my intention to offer to stand as a candidate for the Totnes parliamentary constituency, with a view to becoming (or otherwise helping to elect) Totnes' first Green MP
I explored the beautiful landscape around Totnes including Soar Mill Cove and Sharrah Pools
My plans
Sometime: visit Three Pools, Embercombe, Grocycle and Hempen
11-14 July: Hosting a workshop in the Mind, Body & Soul area at Noisily Festival on ‘Integration Through Social Action’
16-18 July: Offering a session on Psychedelics and the Living Planet at Stir to Action’s A Playground for the New Economy festival
22-28 July: The Borderland with Camp Croquis
29-31 July: Stopping in Berlin for a couple of days as I make my way back to London by train
1 August: Move into my new apartment in Totnes
3-11 August: Voice Camp
15-18 August: MenFest (perhaps)
22-25 August: Conversation with Gail Bradbrook of Extinction Rebellion on Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change on the Imaginarium stage at Shambala Festival
14-20 September: ISTA Level 1 in Devon
21-24 September: The World Transformed 2019 (probably)
27-29 September: Metamodern Arts Festival (perhaps… it’s a long way…)
4-6 October: Green Party Autumn Conference
24-27 October: Apple Land Festival?
1-3 November: The Psychedelic Society’s 5th birthday celebrations
29 December - 3 Jan: Nettlecombe
What I’ve been reading, watching & listening to
YouTube
Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a F@scist | ContraPoints
Consciousness and psychedelics | Peter Sjostedt-H | TEDxTruro
The Guardian
'Biggest compliment yet': Greta Thunberg welcomes oil chief's 'greatest threat' label
Uber co-founder buys record-breaking LA mansion for $72.5m as drivers fight for wages
Tree planting 'has mind-blowing potential' to tackle climate crisis
No flights, a four-day week and living off-grid: what climate scientists do at home
Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis
Humans have made 8.3bn tons of plastic since 1950. This is the illustrated story of where it's gone
Thelma Cabrera: indigenous, female and shaking up Guatemala's election
Two-hour ‘dose’ of nature significantly boosts health – study
Indian villages lie empty as drought forces thousands to flee
Getting back to nature: how forest bathing can make us feel better
People eat at least 50,000 plastic particles a year, study finds
Britain is in the grip of an existential crisis that reaches far beyond Brexit
'Lunch on the go' habit generates 11bn items of packaging waste a year
Facebook plans to launch 'GlobalCoin' cryptocurrency in 2020
The Independent
Mining of ocean floor five times bigger than the UK to cause irreversible harm to environment
Flying is more than twice as damaging to climate than previously thought
The rise of eco-anxiety and how to come to terms with climate change
Melt ponds open in Arctic as permafrost melts at levels not expected until 2090
India's 'rubbish mountain' on course to grow taller than Taj Mahal
Michael Bloomberg donates $500 to campaign to shutdown US coal industry
Bees have human-like ability to link symbols to numbers, study finds
Green parties surge across Europe as 'Green Wave' hits EU elections
New Filipino law requires all students to plant 10 trees if they want to graduate
Elsewhere
Why a hipster, vegan, green tech economy is not sustainable aljazeera.com
Arctic melt goes into overdrive axios.com
In Science We Trust charleseisenstein.org
Every Act a Ceremony charleseisenstein.org
Facebook created a 'gateway drug' to introduce billions to cryptocurrency, experts say cnbc.com
Washington becomes the first state to legalize composting of humans cnn.com
The Best, Safest, And Most Reliable Bitcoin Debit Cards coinsutra.com
Devon voted the nation's second favourite destination devonlive.com
Map of the World in 2100 earthlymission.com
Police Tear-Gas Climate Activists in Paris on 'Hottest Day in History of France' ecowatch.com
Holonomic brain theory en.wikipedia.org
World Environment Day: This Is An Emergency, And We Have Run Out Of Options forbes.com
Will Coinbase's Visa Card Help Push Bitcoin Beyond $10,000? forbes.com
A review of common characteristics of complex systems futurelearn.com
Satellite data shows shrinking reservoirs that may spark major water crisis globally geospatialworld.net
The Next Wave of Work Management Software hackernoon.com
Flux #26 - Junto Demo, New Fundraising Initiatives, and More junto.substack.com
Psychedelic Communities, Social Justice, and Kinship in the Capitalocene kahpi.net
The Rise of the Emergentsia medium.com
5 things that make you metamodern 31 metamoderna.org
From Premodern to Metamodern Mind: a Brief History of Human Evolution metamoderna.org
The Meaning-Enhancing Properties of Psychedelics and Their Mediator Role in Psychedelic Therapy, Spirituality, and Creativity ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Inside a Texas Building Where the Government Is Holding Immigrant Children newyorker.com
‘Food Doesn’t Grow Here Anymore. That’s Why I Would Send My Son North.’ nytimes.com
Bohm: A change of meaning is a change of being ontoscopy.net
Extinction Rebellion and the new visibility of religious protest opendemocracy.net
Why does ritual matter for social change? opendemocracy.net
Morphic Fields and the Implicate Order: Rupert Sheldrake & David Bohm perception.inner-growth.org
Moving Into the Sacred World of DMT, by Nick Sand psychedelicfrontier.com
Just a Wee Bit More About DMT, by Nick Sand psychedelicfrontier.com
Behold Libra, the global cryptocurrency masterminded by Facebook qz.com
Minimum Viable Airtable sirupsen.com
Wild camping to be legalised across parts of England and Wales in new scheme telegraph.co.uk
Sudan crisis: What is happening, and where does it go from here? telegraph.co.uk
Microplastics found in water, food and air the equivalent of eating a "credit card a week" thelondoneconomic.com
If Everyone Tripped on Psychedelics, We’d Do More About Climate Change vice.com
'Unprecedented' Wildfires Are Burning Across the Arctic Circle vice.com
Extreme weather is pummeling the Midwest, and farmers are in deep trouble washingtonpost.com
5 reasons to be more cheerful about the future of the oceans weforum.org
China is building a floating train that could be faster than air travel weforum.org
Sweden has invented a word to encourage people not to fly. And it’s working weforum.org
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Stephen