The Pathfinders Collective, St Agnes, Truro (2026)

05/09/2022

Here’s why there hasn’t been action on climate…

It’s not because we don’t know what’s going on.

That we don’t have the information, the science.

It’s because it means relinquishing POWER.

Just look at this graph and it is clear as day.

It means leaving wealth in the ground.

It means dismantling our economy and rebuilding it.

Relinquishing power in order to provide equity, justice and parity.

It means admitting our systems - the ones that have made us in the Global North miraculously rich and powerful - are fundamentally flawed.

We’ve basically outsourced class struggle, taking the inequality and oppression of capitalism beyond the borders of nation states and globalised them.

We’ve even outsourced the consequences of our actions like the Eloi and Morlocks in H.G Well’s ‘Time Machine’.

Dismantling this system, creating new ones that keep us inside planetary boundaries means humility and compassion.

It requires love of the highest order.

Meanwhile, our culture is full of fear, scarcity and greed from the trauma that is handed on from one generation to another in a worldview that sees the universe as a cold, dead, meaningless place when in fact is completely alive.

We must wake up to who and what we are.

If we are ever to get through this, it won’t be because of more energy efficient light bulbs or paper straws.

It will be because we’ve transcended our egos as a culture in the Global North, seen that we all are one and that we live in and as part of Earth’s intricate systems.

Social change requires personal change en masse. It is an inter-generational challenge.

And above all else, it requires love.

12/08/2022

For those that look at the world in disbelief right now, don’t lose faith - grow it, because: “It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

The impeded stream is the one that sings.”

Wendell Berry

30/06/2022

This civilisation is finished. And that’s ok. Hi ya hard to swallow but it’s ok. I know that letting go will set me free and yet I hesitate.

To find out why, click the link in bio

20/06/2022

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. Our current global problems are a case in point. If we see them as overwhelming disaster and the end of everything, nothing we can do etc then that’s what we’ll get.

If, however, we re-frame how we see things and make sense of the world through different lenses, the same information suddenly looks different.

For example, what if this entire situation is part of a process of our species waking up to who we are, where we come come from and a better understanding of the planet and of nature?

What if your suffering is catalyst for reflection, a wake up call that leads to learning - transformative learning.

What if this is how it feels to live through a paradigm change?

What if this is a rite of passage that will expand our consciousness as a species?

What if we give up trying to do things better and do better things instead?

What if this is a chance to let go of everything that’s been holding us back, all our fears and blocks?

What if regeneration starts inside each and every one of us and that as we each heal, the world heals?

What if we realised that our ‘problems’ are all built out of perceptions, interpretations, stories, beliefs and identities and that all of them are changeable, changing and socially constructed in the giant entangled web that is life?

What if all of this in the outside world is a reflection of our inner worlds and that our shared understanding of the world is flawed?

What would happen if we changed the way we look at things?

How would you want the the things you look at to change?

What do you need to get rid of so that you can? Maybe fear, doubt, sadness, anger.

What if all those emotions are born out of your beliefs and your view of the world?

What would happen if you challenged the beliefs that make them possible?

What might happen then? How might you show up? What might that do to the world? What if that in itself is enough.

To change your world and in doing so make it easier for others to change theirs purely by being around you.

Sign up to the Substack or book a free call.

See link in bio

17/06/2022

Fear is the right reaction to our predicament, and as my pain points me to the source of my anxiety being control, the only thing I can do now in order to be happy at the end of the world is to give up trying to control any of this.

To give up running from the fear.

So I let it catch up with me, fully aware. I look it in the eye and let it know that I’m here. I let it watch me. I let it know exactly who I am because there simply isn’t enough time nor tears to put this off any longer. And as it gets closer to me, and I get closer to it, instead of shaking into a blubbering mess its mountainous shadow starts to shrink until it's the exact same size as me. It’s just a shadow. My shadow.

As we talk without words I realise that it wants me to stay alive. It loves me and needs me to live. So I listen to it as it silently speaks. I take the letter from its black-smoke hand and I let go of whatever has been holding me back from reading it.

I read the words.

Two words, nothing more: “WAKE UP”, in black, dripping letters.

Written in oil.

Keep reading or listening by clicking the link in bio

24/05/2022

“Shell must fall” and the indictment after indictment of complicity in murder and the board have had to listen to every bit of it. Powerful action.

23/05/2022

Why won’t we solve the climate crisis?
Because the climate is not the problem - we are.

Our current crises serve to show us that our whole way of understanding our shared reality is faulty.

This understanding is foundational to our entire civilisation and has been for thousands of years.

Which is what makes the current predicament so monumental and why plastic straws just aren’t going to cut it.

This shared understanding has gifted us immense wealth and prosperity and has freed so many from so much suffering but it’s based on an understanding of the world and ourselves as separate.

We are not separate from each other or from nature - we are nature.

Yet we see ourselves as somehow distinct and detached, isolated and alienated from the world around us; somehow we’ve become discrete actors on a stage with everything else serving only as a painted, fixed backdrop.

It’s a lie. An unconscious one but a lie all the same.

We are completely entangled in countless systems. Not only is everything we do entangled in such systems but so too is everything we think as well, because living in these webs means that everything is constantly being determined in relationship to everything else.

Everything we think and do is co-created in a giant dance that seems messy and chaotic but is playing out in nested systems where the distinction between parts and wholes is no longer as useful as principles, functions and relationships, all co-evolving in one giant self-regulating system that is the earth, itself a part of larger systems all the way up to the universe.

The problem isn’t the climate, it’s us. It’s our inner world, our stories, our ways of seeing and making sense of the world. We are seeing the world askew, through distortions and misperceptions and we can’t address our climate and ecological crises until we transform the way we see the world and ourselves.

See link in bio to keep reading (you can listen to it read aloud there too).

19/05/2022

For everyone who is scared right now about climate change I want you to know something - you are a soul.

You are beautiful and divine.

You are a dancing star of beauty, whirling thought the cosmos.

A spiritual being having a human experience and that you are here for a reason.

Feel what you feel, let it help you grow.

You chose this life and it is your time to shine.

Turn your fear into purpose, pledge yourself to self acceptance, self love and compassion.

Forgive everyone.

Live your life.

Live your life so fully and hard you take your own breath away.

We have nothing to lose in being ourselves and dreaming our lives.

Holding on to every precious moment.

Every held hand.

Every kiss upon your cheek.

Every breath of wind and touch of hair.

Live your life with your heart wide open.

Cherish it and watch it bloom.

Watch your soul light up and the world around you ripple in your wake.

You are a way for the universe to know itself.

So know yourself deeply and remember who and what you are.

You are the world.

You are everything.

You are nature.

You have more meaning and purpose than you can ever know.

We’ve got this.

17/05/2022

How to be happy at the end of the world - a new series on my Substack launches today and Part One is ready for you to read or listen to right now.

https://lnkd.in/eCV7h9xU

See link in bio.

Things are tough right now and it can feel like you’re going a little crazy but if you’re a little eco-anxious, frustrated, or even overwhelmed there are reasons to be cheerful and ways to rise above it - ways that not only make you feel better but encourage you to be the change you want to see in the world.

More and more I’m realising that our inner world creates our outer world.

That’s why I’m starting this series.

Social change comes from personal change. It’s all about the stories we tell, our values, our culture and who we are as people and communities.

So go check out Part 1 and let me know what you think.

I hope it helps you to stare down the truth of our crises and do so with a smile on your face and a growing sense of peace - which is exactly what we need most as the stakes get higher and higher.

Fear is a wake up call but we can’t stay there.

We need patience in an emergency - which is really hard but we can do it.

And it’s fuelled by love.

How to get started?

Check out part one as I explore compassion and forgiveness in a time of lies, corruption and fossil fuel madness.

Have a great day

11/05/2022

You’re not going crazy - things are messed up and falling apart and you don’t deserve it.

But we can do something about it. We can stop living in denial, we can develop the courage to stare down the truth and create a different world.

But no one is going to give it to us, we have to make it ourselves.

We don’t need to make demands of governments, we need to make demands of ourselves as to what we accept.

We need to tell new stories and create and grow our own power.

We need to create new systems, new ways of being in the world new visions of the future.

We don’t need anybody’s permission to do this.

We just need to do it together and keep doing it.

This whole thing is about belief and changing minds.

Expanding our awareness.

You’re mind is your own.

Your heart is more powerful than you realise.

You have everything you need.

All we need now is each other and with every changing mind it becomes a little bit easier to not buy into business as usual and to imagine something better.

With each changing mind we come a little closer to changing the world.

Personal change + community = social change.

Become the change. Focus on solutions. Grow your power.

27/04/2022

I’ll just leave this here...

24/04/2022

Self-immolation on Earth Day outside the US Supreme Court.

Ask yourself why someone would do this and share this post so others can find out too.

This is how extreme things have gotten.

This is how much it matters.

Just pause and reflect on this.

Ask yourself some deep questions and wake up.

I don’t know what the answer is but I believe that the only way we will even begin to ask the right questions is through love.

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