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David Abram on how we are tuned for relationship with all of life

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils – are all gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. This landscape of shadowed voices, these feathered bodies and antlers and tumbling streams – … Continue reading →

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Robert MacFarlane on our estrangement from the dark

Posted on January 31, 2017 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Our disenchantment of the night through artificial lighting may appear, if it is noticed at all, as a regrettable but eventually trivial side effect of contemporary life. That winter hour, though, up on the summit ridge with the stars falling … Continue reading →

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