"Friends, don’t waste that depression! Use these things as a spade to dig, to deepen us into being.” A tour-de-force from Alastair McIntosh

We’re delighted to cross-post this Perspectiva presentation from the Scottish ecologist and theologian Alastair McIntosh, delivered as the opening conversation of The Realisation Festival in the summer of 2022. The Alternative Global was there (and asking questions, as you can see), and can vouch for the inspirational nature of the talk. As the original blurb had it:

What Brings Nature Into Being? Conversation with Alastair McIntosh (hosted by Elizabeth Oldfield)

Our times are asking us to think again. What we presume may be mistaken. Sources of inspiration must be rediscovered. Big ideas and the widest vision could be vital to address practical problems with renewed vigor, as the radicals of former years often realised. Alternative traditions, ancient and new, which may be thriving on the margins, could provide the perceptions needed for today and tomorrow.

Alistair has written for the Alternative Global recently on our key concept, the “parallel polis”.