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For those whose heart burns to see a new world emerge.

Despite our wealth and technologies, we are struggling at both a personal and collective levels. Personally, we are are not truly happy, satisfied and at peace; collectively we are failing to act powerfully on issues ranging from climate change to health. We believe the roots of both of these lie in our culture – which is grounded in materialism, technology and individualism – and thus a breakthro

ugh requires a transformation in culture: the views, values, beliefs, practices that underlie our collective way of being.

25/08/2026

What myths lie beneath a name?

In Organs of Origin, Jote Lamar invites us to look beyond the language of function and biology to see our most intimate anatomy as a living threshold between body, ancestry, Earth, and becoming.

This is a story about remembrance. About the quiet power of finding words that return us to ourselves and to the myths that have always been swimming beneath the surface.

Read Organs of Origin in the latest edition of Second Renaissance Magazine: MYTHOS (link in bio).

20/08/2026

A pain, as James Hillman once said, has found its god.

Sam Hinds carries this image through meditation, grief, and a friend's dissenting voice on the phone until it names itself.

The wound doesn't close. But the kingdom, somehow, still asks to be brought to order. Mythos appears.

Read the full story in the new issue of Second Renaissance Magazine.

Link in bio.

Image: John Bingley Garland collage from Evelyn Waugh's Blood Book

18/08/2026

If we truly listen, can we hear what we have forgotten how to feel?

In The Song of the Depth, Valérie Duvauchelle invites us to step into the silence.

No longer a 'self'. Simply the world listening to itself through us.

Read the full text in the latest edition of the Second Renaissance Magazine: MYTHOS (link in bio).

14/08/2026

"The hospital exists to serve the bureaucrats, not the bureaucrats who serve the hospital."
— Iain McGilchrist

In this episode, Rufus and Iain discuss how bureaucracy has become what McGilchrist would regard as a cancer, feeding on the institutions it was meant to serve. Listen to the conversation to learn more about why this is a civilisational problem.

🎧 Link in bio.

13/08/2026

This is the story about giving back to yourself as an act of love to your community.

Two friends. Entangled in the mythos of their lived experiences. A living explosion of resonance and meaning even through the darkest nights.

Read more from Rosa Lewis in the latest edition of the Second Renaissance Magazine: MYTHOS. Link in bio.

Photography by Lucila Vairo.

11/08/2026

"Dear lover Earth, please allow me to feel you, be you, lay down on you, eat you."

A Humble Prayer to Lover Earth was born of a passionate, short-lived love story between a man and a woman.

The mutual feeling of love towards the Earth is all that lasted.

In the ruins of patriarchy, a new way of relating emerges: one centered around love for Earth herself, the Goddess herself, and all her creatures.

Read this Humble Prayer in the new edition of the Second Renaissance Magazine: MYTHOS (link in bio).

06/08/2026

What if the most radical thing you could do right now is build something small, real, and deeply alive?

A pocket.

That's the word we use in this whitepaper for the small, dense communities that have always preceded civilisational change.

Paradigms don't shift all at once. They boil. First in pockets. Then in movements. Then everywhere.

This paper recognises that we are in the very early stages of the Second Renaissance while mapping the how — what these communities need to form, survive, and eventually transform the narrative.

Inner development. Genuine commitment. A vision worth building toward.

Read the full Second Renaissance Whitepaper II at: https://secondrenaissance.net/papers

05/08/2026

I ground myself in my own radical imperfection. And at the same time, I am totally devoted to what I call the living Christ — in the context of those five and a half traditions."
— Michael Lerner

From activism to spirituality, Michael Lerner explains how he's spent 50 years living a life that refuses to fit in a box in the new episode of the Over The Mountains podcast.

🎧 Link in bio.

04/08/2026

"I actually believe that matter is another manifestation of consciousness."
— Iain McGilchrist

In this episode, Rufus and Iain discuss why this isn't a leap of faith — it's a considered position, arrived at through decades of neuroscience, philosophy, and the awareness that the materialist picture leaves too much out.

🎧 Link in bio.

03/08/2026

Some stories don't just tell us what happened—they make us feel every heartbeat.

In MYTHOS, The Birth of Gaia is a raw, intimate account of love, endurance, fear, and the fragile line between life and death. A story where birth becomes both miracle and reckoning.

Some stories ask to be read. Others ask to be lived, if only for a few pages.

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