Resurgence

07/10/2026

Satish Kumar says, “We should all be pilgrims.” Having made an 8,000-mile peace pilgrimage from India to the four nuclear capitals of the world in 1962, he notes: “Making an outer journey is a reminder of an inner journey, and I discovered that I am always on a pilgrimage. Life is a journey. I want to travel through life as a pilgrim.”

In our October issue of this newsletter we bring you a range of events happening online and around the world, with a special focus on pilgrimage.

We invite our members to join Satish this Tuesday morning for our monthly meditation via Zoom, a peaceful time to guide you into deeper connection with Nature, others and yourself.

We are looking forward to our next much-loved Earth Festival with Georgie Gilmore. This month we celebrate Samhain, the liminal space between what was and what will be. We also invite you to our regular life drawing session, which you can attend online or in person at the Resurgence Centre.

We share some events from our friends at Resurgence, including the art walking tours in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence led by Luc Richard, a state-certified French mountain leader and mountain art guide, with the opportunity to spend two nights sleeping inside Andy Goldsworthy’s sculptures.

We also bring you a special fundraising event from our friends at Abbey Home Farm, who are hosting a talk with Satish Kumar, ‘To be a pilgrim, not a tourist on this Earth’, to raise money for Resurgence’s sixtieth-year anniversary.

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05/10/2026

People’s Emergency Briefing! Hosted by Hartland Community Action Group and The Resurgence Trust.

This National Emergency Briefing film brings together leading evidence on the Climate and Nature crisis, and what it means for the UK. It is designed to be watched together in communities like this one, creating space for honest conversation and constructive civic engagement.

Across the UK, people are now coming together to ensure that these risks are properly understood, openly discussed, and responded to with the seriousness they require...

Find out more, get in touch and host your own film showing and Q&A - Essential viewing and conversations.

Facilitated by Dave Reeve, editor of Resurgence & Ecologist.

30/09/2026

“Peace is not just made at conference tables, but in classrooms, neighbourhoods, and everywhere people meet with open minds and open hearts. Together, day by day, we can build a more just world, with compassion, equality and dignity for all.” ~ United Nations Secretary-General: António Guterres

Monday 21 September marked the International Day of Peace. In this issue of the Resurgence newsletter, we trace the heritage of this day — from Jeremy Gilley’s historic campaign for a worldwide ceasefire to the timeless reflections of Satish Kumar and June Mitchell and peace poetry from Jackie Morris. Through these works from the Resurgence archive, we invite you to explore what it takes to cultivate peace from the inside out.

We also bring you a few of our upcoming events, including Sharon Blackie’s Resurgence Talk, ‘Why we need fairy tales now’, Craig Jordan Baker’s writing course ‘Landscapes’, and our Samhain Earth Festival in October with Georgie Gilmore.

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26/09/2026

Returning to India - Satish Kumar’s story began in Rajasthan, India, from where he embarked on a lifelong path of activism, spirituality and ecology. Those early experiences were reflected through the pages of Resurgence magazine under his editorship.

At just nine years old, Satish renounced the material world to become a wandering Jain monk. In 1962, inspired by Mahatma Gandhi and the arrest of British philosopher Bertrand Russell during nuclear protests in London, he set off from New Delhi on an 8,000-mile Peace Walk to the world’s four nuclear capitals at the time: Moscow, Paris, London and Washington, D.C.

To honour Satish’s life's work, this issue of the Resurgence newsletter looks back to India for its powerful lessons in resilience, spiritual acceptance and grassroots action.

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22/09/2026

To Be A Pilgrim, Not A Tourist On This Earth
an evening with Satish Kumar

The Organic Farm Shop, Abbey Home Farm
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Saturday, October 31 • 7 - 9pm

We can live on this beautiful Planet Earth, either as tourists, or pilgrims. To be a tourist is to be a consumer, and to be a pilgrim is to be a contributor. Going on a pilgrimage is not simply going to sacred sites. To be a pilgrim is a way of life, a way of consciousness. Living lightly and frugally is one way of being a pilgrim.

Satish Kumar is a pilgrim, literally as well as metaphorically. He will tell his story at this event which is in aid of Resurgence Trust.

Resurgence is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. This fundraising event is organised to support Resurgence so that it can continue to serve the ecological and spiritual movement for the next 60 years and beyond. Please come and listen to Satish, and support the work that Resurgence does.

Join us for what will, we are certain, be an incredibly inspirational evening.

The talk starts at 7.15pm. Doors and bar from 6.15pm. See below if you'd like to join them for supper too.

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Satish Kumar:

Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. He undertook a pilgrimage for peace, walking for two years without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration and social justice. He is a world-renown author and international speaker, founder of The Resurgence Trust and Editor Emeritus of Resurgence & Ecologist – a change-making magazine he edited for over 40 years.

Supper before the talk:

At this time of year the veg garden is at its peak. If you'd like to enjoy a garden inspired vegetarian two course supper beforehand, please book via the page linked in our Linktree (see bio): 6pm. £45. Limited spaces. 100% profits to Resurgence Trust.

The Land is not ours, it belongs to the future and we should leave it in good heart...