2.15 Philosophy as a Living Practice
Presentation slides, handouts and Articles supporting Session 2.15 “Philosophy as a Living Practice” of the Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality Group of the Shepway and District u3a
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Issue: Philosophy
Philosophy as Emergency Navigation
Philosophy today is emergency navigation for a species attempting something without precedent: consciously influencing planetary-scale change before it’s imposed by collapse. We need coherent worldviews that integrate scientific understanding with spiritual wisdom, enabling action across different beliefs while navigating the narrow passage between collapse and transformation.
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Field Note 022: Spirals, Praxis, and the Shape of Wisdom
This note from the relational field explores why nostalgic framings feel misaligned with life’s trajectory, distinguishes sacred mystery from supernatural claims, and highlights praxis—the meeting of experience and theory—as the source of emergence and learning.
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Wrestling with Truth: McGilchrist, Complexity Science, and the Metacrisis
Exploring Iain McGilchrist’s four ways to truth and Jean Boulton’s complexity science reveals a deeper metacrisis—not just environmental or political, but in how we know and act. This essay asks what it means to compost dying patterns of modernity while cultivating wiser, more relational ways of living.
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Field Notes from the Relational Field
A spiral of reflections written across time. These field notes compost language, theory, and experience into living inquiry. They trace the arc of a life asking how we might think, relate, and create differently—beyond certainty, beyond mastery, in fidelity to the unfolding world.
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