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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Perspective: Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality
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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Beyond Solutions: Two Ways of Knowing
This piece explores how our greatest challenge is not finding solutions from outside life’s systems but learning how to participate wisely from within them. By weaving empirical evidence with contemplative recognition, we see that both streams point toward the same truth: we belong to the living flow.
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Wholeness Holds the Wound: Learning the Metabolism of Repair
If forests teach us that decomposition is the patient work of midwifing renewal, our next step is to ask how such work might take place in the human-made ecosystems of our own time. Could artificial intelligence — one of modernity’s most unlikely offspring — become part of the decomposer guild, helping us compost the very thinking patterns that shaped it?
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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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