Poems for These Times: 16
Jane Hirshfield | The Monk Stood Beside a Wheelbarrow
“The monk stood by a wheelbarrow, weeping.
God or Buddha nowhere to be seen –
These tears were fully human…”
Review: Silicon
Richard Gault | reviews the autobiography of Federico Faggin, the man who invented the silicon chip, who is now putting forward a new theory of consciousness
Making Paradise: Exploring the Concept of Eden
Jane Clark | visits the Making Paradise exhibition at the Aga Khan Centre in London, which explores our notions of Eden as a place of peace and tranquillity
Reflections: Covid Refuge
Robert Hirschfield | contemplates the experience of locked-down New York
Review: The Great Re-Think
Richard Gault | reviews the latest book by Colin Tudge, which lays out a new vision for agriculture and farming based upon principles of unity and compassion
Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi / Warren Kenton
Joanna Lapage-Browne | pays tribute to a visionary thinker whose lifework was to revive the tradition of Kabbalah for the contemporary world