Matthew David Segal: Mezi Zemí a impériem: Kosmopolitická demokracie za hranicemi liberálního horizontu

Procesně-relační odpověď Carlu Schmittovi Matthew David Segall, PhD je americký transdisciplinární filozof a docent v programu filozofie, kosmologie a vědomí na Kalifornském institutu integrálních studií v San Francisku. Ve své práci propojuje procesně-relační metafyziku s moderní vědou a spiritualitou a inspiraci čerpá od myslitelů, jako jsou Alfred North Whitehead, Friedrich Schelling, Johann Wolfgang Goethe a Rudolf Steiner. Segall…

Antonín Líman: Velká samota duše

„Neopěvovaná krajina je mrtvá krajina.“ Bruce Chatwin Antonín Líman (1932–2018), český japanolog, literární historik, překladatel a emeritní profesor byl velkým znalcem a vyznavačem japonské kultury. Po studiu na Karlově univerzitě a tokijské univerzitě Waseda emigroval v roce 1968 do Kanady: působil jako emeritní profesor univerzit v kanadském Torontu a v japonském Otemae a přednášel též na Univerzitě Britské…

Martin Kirk: Síla wetiko – Chcete-li vyřešit globální krizi, podívejte se do zrcadla

Martin Kirk je spoluzakladatel a ředitel strategie organizace The Rules, globálního kolektivu spisovatelů, myslitelů, programátorů, zemědělců, umělců a aktivistů všech typů, kteří se věnují boji proti základním příčinám globální chudoby a nerovnosti. Před založením The Rules byl Martin vedoucím kampaní v Oxfam UK a vedoucím globální advokacie v Save the Children. Napsal řadu publikací o otázkách chudoby,…

See Wetiko: An Interview with Alnoor Ladha

Alnoor LADHA, from a Sufi family, is a writer, activist, and co-founder of The Rules, a global collective focused on addressing the root causes of inequality, poverty, and climate change, and is also the chairman of Culture Hack Labs. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and Huffington Post, among others. He is the co-author of Post…

We must meet: about the Czech-German cultural-ecological meeting in Berlin

"Where to go next...?" Barbora Kinkalová leads the Deep Time Walk in Berlin on May 17th.

On Friday 16th and Saturday 17th May, an international meeting of creators and supporters of a broad cultural-ecological field took place in Berlin. We organized the event, entitled Moving through the Land, together with the American interspecies musician and philosopher David Rothenberg from the USA and Benjamin Rodriguez Kafka from Atelier Gardens. The first evening saw the so-called “Salon”. On the roof of the former BUFA film studios, in the setting sun…

Martin Nawrath: Awakening to the Earth

What story should we start from today and what story should we return clients to so that their individual movement is not in deep conflict with the collective one? In this reflection, its author Martin Nawrath is inspired by therapy that is ecocentric. The text was published in Psychologie DNES 4/2025. I like stories, myths and fairy tales. This text is a bit of a story, maybe for some it will be more of a fairy tale, but…

Martin Nawrath: A Pilgrimage Bigger Than Me

Igor Grimmich, The Purple Battle, 2023

This essay by Martin Nawrath on the Cosmic Walk was published in the journal Psychologie dnes (11/2024), dedicated to transpersonal psychology. Martin Nawrath is a therapist and facilitator who is educated mainly in the field of process-oriented psychology, but is also inspired by archetypal and analytical psychology. In recent years, he has focused on connecting mental health care with environmental protection. He is the co-founder of Klidem – the institute for ecotherapy.…

Stephan Harding: Land Rights

Stephan Harding is the coordinator of the MSc in Holistic Sciences at Schumacher College in Devon, UK. He is the author of Animate Earth: Animated Gaia: Science, Intuition and Gaia (2006). This article by the author was published in The Guardian (3 April 2007). Translation: Jiří Zemánek. The only way to prevent the destruction of our planet is to give it legal rights. Stephan Harding Today…

Iroquois Thanksgiving: "Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen"/"Words Before All Else"

Lynda Hoffman-Snodgrass, Grandma Luna / Iroquois Thanksgiving (reprophoto)

This prayer is a gift from the Haudenosaunee people (Iroquois Nation), words of thanksgiving with ancient roots dating back to the time when the Great Law of Peace was brought to the Iroquois Nation by the Peacemaker, an Iroquois prophet, statesman, and lawgiver, who advised them to end intertribal warfare. Variations of these words are still recited at all times of the year at the opening and closing of ceremonial and governmental sessions…

Twelve poems by Martin Nawrath

Our friend and collaborator Martin Nawrath (born 1968) published his first poetry collection, Encounters, last year in the Brno publishing house Druhé město – Martin Reiner. The collection contains more than sixty poems, accompanied by delicate ink illustrations by the painter Jan Pražan; I have selected a total of twelve poems from it as a sample for the PILGRIM website. The themes of Martin's poetry are the fragile beauty of the world, the fascination of its…