The Kerulos Center for Nonviolence

Seeing the Unseen: Restoration Through Re-Enchantment
2025 Living One

2025 Living One conversations discuss paths of engaged, ensouled activism and practice which redirect humanity into alignment with Nature. Drawing from multiple perspectives, our speakers delve into the unseen, non-material, and less-than-obvious dimensions of life which have been dismissed and excised from mainstream reality. This long-standing parsing of wholeness is a major contributor to the destruction of the planet. Join us to hear how the dissolution of dualism and subsequent embrace of nonduality is integral to Plant and Animal liberation and to our own re-enchantment.

Series One: Attending to the More-Than-Human World

February 14th - March 28th 2025

This first series, Attending to the More-Than-Human World, explores the ethics of attention –why it matters when we unhook our minds and attention from human privilege and ground in the perspectives of Animals, Plants, Rivers, Seas, Forests. Six incisive thinkers discuss ways to pay deep and loving attention to Animals and Plants. Through various approaches – empathy, shared embodiment, animism and holism – they offer thoughtful and practical guidance on how the well-being and self-determination of our fellow earth-beings can be supported and revitalized.

Please visit our Series One page or our YouTube channel to view all webinar recordings for this series!

Series One
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Webinar Recordings

February 14, 2025

Silvia Caprioglio Panizza is a philosopher working on moral psychology, interested in attention, (im)possibility, perception, trust, and all the ways in which we (fail to) meet the world. Apparently, she likes to travel: she has worked as a lecturer and researcher at UEA (UK), UCD (Ireland), Pardubice (Czechia), and currently Tübingen (Germany). She is the author of The Ethics of Attention: Engaging the Real with Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil (Routledge 2022), co-editor of The Murdochian Mind (Routledge 2022), and co-editor and co-translator of Simone Weil’s Venice Saved (Bloomsbury 2019) and Mirror of Obedience (Bloomsbury 2023). Non-human animals, how to do justice to them, and how to make the world a little better for them, are at the centre of much of her thinking.

February 21, 2025

Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns, and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Recurring themes in the work are language, including silence, madness, nonhuman animals, and politics. Meijer also works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, writes essays and columns for Dutch newspapers, and is a member of the Multispecies Collective.

February 28, 2025

Ralph Acampora is the author of Corporal Compassion: Animal Ethics and Philosophy of Body (2006), editor of Metamorphoses of the Zoo: Animal Encounter After Noah (2010), and co-editor of A Nietzschean Bestiary: Becoming Animal Beyond Docile and Brutal (2003). He has written many articles and chapters in the arena of animal philosophy (ontology, morality, etc.). Acampora teaches widely in applied ethics among other areas, has served as an animal advocate, and worked as a park ranger before entering the academic profession.

March 14, 2025

Skye was raised on the edge of a wildlife reserve in South Africa, where she spent most of her days exploring outdoors and immersed in the Imaginal World. She now lives on Wurundjeri Country, in Melbourne Australia with her husband, toddler and Border Collie. Her early years were spent working in wildlife rehabilitation and as a Wilderness Guide in the South African bush. She then underwent a traditional 3 year apprenticeship in Taoist Healing practises before moving to the Peruvian Amazon where she entered into a full-time traditional curanderismo apprenticeship with her Shipibo teachers of the Mahua – Lopez lineage. On return from the jungle, she has been passionate about finding meaningful ways to deepen into and integrate the life altering paradigmatic shifts she experienced through her time learning from the plants. This is primarily done through her work as a facilitator of Experiential Deep Ecology workshops, as a Folk Herbalist, a Community Grief Ritualist, a leader of Study Groups on the work of Stephen Harrod Buhner and his body of work on “contemplative animism”, and as a facilitator of immersive group experiences into practices focusing on reclamation of Living Earth Perception, Mythic Imagination and Ritual Rhythms.

March 21, 2025

Erik Jampa Andersson, MA, is an environmental historian, teacher, and the author of Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human (Hay House UK, 2023). With a twenty-year background in Tibetan studies, his current research focuses on animistic philosophies and the critical intersection of ecology, spirituality, and health in a more-than-human world. His research also extends into the field of Tolkien studies, where he explores critical ecological and animistic themes in J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythopoeic corpus. Erik holds an MA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a graduate of the Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine. 

March 28, 2025

Freya Mathews is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia. She is the author of over a hundred books, articles and essays in the area of ecological philosophy, including the 1991 classic, The Ecological Self (re-issued in 2021). Her latest book, The Dao of Civilization: a Letter to China, appeared in 2023.  In addition to her research activities, she co-manages a private conservation estate in northern Victoria. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. 

Series Two: Encounters with the Unseen

May 9th - June 20th 2025

Encounters with the Unseen delves into the critical ethical and ontological dimensions emerging from nonduality and our existence in a world of persons in which only a small number are human.

Journey with us into unseen territories and discover how this deeper understanding can expand and restore wholeness and connection with the vitality of our living cosmos. 

Please visit our Series Two page or our YouTube channel to view all webinar recordings for this series!

Series Two
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Join us for our companion course for this second series, Encountering the Unseen.

Everyone who would like to engage more deeply is welcome!

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Webinar Recordings

In this special Living One session, we will be joined by four contributors to the book, Dark Matter: Women Witnessing: Dreams Before Extinction – Andrea Mathieson, Nancy Windheart, Michaela Harrison, and Shante’ Sojourn Zenith.

Dark Matter: Women Witnessing, Dreams Before Extinction is an anthology of essays, poems, and artwork by women in response to ecological devastation. The collection is comprised of works selected from the first 10 years of publication of the online journal Dark Matter: Women Witnessing (www.darkmatterwomenwitnessing.com). Sixty-seven authors from six countries have contributed to this anthology of 79 pieces, in 572 pages, grouped into nine sections: To Witness, Fired Anew, The Grammar of Animacy, What We Know in Our Bones, Songs of Undoing, I am Nothing Without My Dead, Healing with Land and Ancestors, The Music of Grief, and What it Takes to Breach. Edited by Lise Weil, Gillian Goslinga, Kristin Flyntz, and Anne Bergeron, this book is a moving and inspiring collection of written and visual responses drawing on dreams, visions and activism, all in the name of healing our broken relationship to the earth.

Dr. Stephanie Kaza is a long-time practitioner of Soto Zen Buddhism, affiliated with Upaya Zen Center, New Mexico, and author of Green Buddhism: Practice and Compassionate Action in Uncertain Times; Hooked! Buddhist Writings on Greed, Desire, and the Urge to Consume; and Conversations with Trees: An Intimate Ecology. She envisioned and coordinated the tribute volume: A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time and served as editor for the third edition of Macy’s collected essays, World as Lover, World as Self. She is Professor Emerita of Environmental Studies, University of Vermont, where she taught courses on religion and ecology and unlearning consumerism. Dr. Kaza writes and lectures widely on topics of Buddhism and ecology and currently works on climate issues in Portland, Oregon.

Phap Dung (who also goes by Brother Dharma Embrace) is a monastic Dharma teacher at Deer Park Monastery in Escondido, California. Ordained by Vietnamese Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh in 1998, he was abbot of Deer Park Monastery from 2001 to 2010. He was born in Vietnam in 1969, came to the United States when he was nine years old. He received a professional BA in Architecture from the University of Southern California and worked as an architect/designer for four years before becoming a monk. He helped to establish Deer Park Monastery and other US centers, creating meditation programs and retreats for children, teens, families, and young adults, as well as planning its halls and infrastructures. He has led mindfulness retreats in North and South America, China, Hong Kong, India, Bhutan and Germany.
 

Brother Phap Dung represented Plum Village Monastery at the pivotal COP21 climate conference in Paris. Throughout the year, he is involved in supporting Wake Up Schools (bringing mindfulness practice and well-being into education), Wake Up Hubs (creating sustainable, ethical, healthy, alternative non-sectarian urban practice centers for young people), and Wake Up retreats around the world. In the US, Br. Pháp Dung has offered mindfulness workshops for organisations such as Google, Facebook, Salesforce, and the World Bank. 

Nina is by profession a Clinical Psychologist, Psychodynamic Psychotherapist and Group Psychotherapist, Jungian Coach ACC (ICF), Clinical and Organizational Supervisor, Ecotherapist, Qigong and Yoga Instructor. She is also a long-term student of Animism and a Shamanic Practitioner.  

Nina has always lived in two worlds, and loves to integrate the scientific and the mythological. Bringing Evolutionary Psychology and the wonderful findings of Neuroscience into union with the Spiritual sets her on fire 🔥 She has particular interest and experience in Depth Psychology, Shamanic work, dreamwork and imaginative practices as well as the transition of midlife. She is, herself, a middle aged woman of Finnish origin, and lives in Southern Finland with her family which consists of human people and animal people. Her favourite places are the forest and the lake (which are luckily not hard to find in Finland).

Per Ingvar Haukeland is an ecophilosopher and a professor at South-East Norway in the Outdoor life (friluftsliv) program.  Per Ingvar collaborated with the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess (1912-2009) for close to 20 years, including on two books: Life’s philosophy (1998/2003) and Deep Joy: Into the depths of deep ecology (2008, in transl.). Per Ingvar is a pan-en-theist (Earth) Quaker that honors and celebrates life’s plurality and oneness in all its forms. He is the co-founder of the Alliance of Wild Ethics (wildethics.org), together with David Abram, Stephan Harding and Per Espen Stoknes. As a 19year old, he spent a summer studying with Thich Naht Hahn. Per Ingvar’s current research interest is in a renewed sense of indigeneity, land as home (eco) and nature-cultural practices in three Scandinative animistic traditions (Sami, Kven and Norse), contributing to a dialogue between the old and the new in an eco-animism for our troubled times. In the webinar, Per Ingvar will share some personal experiences how he finds invisible powers visible in natures mysterious ways, and what consequences eco-animist insights and indigenous awareness can have on what we see and do, personally and communally, in the lands we co-inhabit with all creatures to honor, celebrate and offer thanks to nature as life-giver.

Pim van Lommel, M.D., born in 1943, graduated in 1971 at the University of Utrecht, and finished his specialization in cardiology in 1976. He worked from 1977-2003 as a cardiologist at a Teaching Hospital in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and is now doing full-time research on the mind-brain relation. He published several articles on cardiology, but since he started his research on near-death experiences (NDE) in survivors of cardiac arrest in 1986 he is the author of over 20 articles (most of them in Dutch), one book and many chapters about NDE. He was co-founder of the Dutch IANDS in 1988. In 2005 he was granted with the Dr. Bruce Greyson Research Award of the International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS). In 2006, the President of India rewarded him the Life Time Achievement Award at the World Congress on Clinical and Preventive Cardiology in New Dehli. His Dutch book ‘Endless Consciousness’, was nominated for the ‘Book of the Year 2008’ in the Netherlands. In 2010 he received the 2010 Book Award van de Scientific and Medical Network, and in 2017 he received the Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Award by the Dutch Society of Volunteers in Palliative and Terminal Care (VPTZ). In 2020 the Spiritual Awakenings International (SAI) honored him for his ground-breaking work about Near-Death Experiences as Circle of Honor honoree. The Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies (BICS) started in 2021 an international essay contest for the best scientific evidence about a possible ‘afterlife’. With his article, entitled: ‘The Continuity of Consciousness’ he won the second Prize. In 2022 he became a Honorary Member of the Scientific and Medical Network (SMN). In 2024 he received in Barcelona the ‘Icloby Award: Premio Somos Alma’ by the ICLOBY FOUNDATION for his scientific research and his contribution to science,  and in Madrid he received the ‘Social Reformer Award’ by ANOCHE TUVE UN SUEÑO for his scientific career in demonstrating the existence of consciousness beyond the body in NDE. In 2024 he became a IANDS Advisory Board Member.

Carlos is a quantum theorist who graduated from the Institute of Technology of Massachusetts (MIT) and received a doctorate in physics from the University of Texas at Austin. Carlos’ original work on Extended Relativity in Clifford spaces was recognized by academia as well as the international press, and this work earned him a nomination for an award from the Peter Gruber Foundation. His contribution to the Riemann Conjecture has raised interest in academic circles. His main research areas are the Extended Relativity theory in Clifford spaces; Born Reciprocal Relativity; gravity, strings and membranes; grand unification; fractals; Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical Physics; No commutative geometry and number theory.

He has written 235 articles, a large majority published in various journals, and as a sole author, including Classical and Quantum Gravity, Annals of Physics, Physics Letters B, Journal of Mathematical Physics, Physical Review D, Journal of Geometry and Physics, Journal of Physics A and Foundations of Physics. Included in his work is the co-authored book, Against the Tide: A Critical Review by Scientists of How Physics and Astronomy Get Done, called a classic critique on the political manipulation of research which falsifies and distorts scientific veracity and integrity.

 

Series Three: A Re-Enchanted World

August 22nd - October 10th 2025

This third series of conversations, A Re-enchanted World, continues exploration into “unseen” worlds. The mercantile, capitalist, realist-Cartesian paradigm has supported scientific, technological, and industrial advances, but stripped our psyches and imaginations – even our very perceptions and understanding – of the richly entangled, convivially connected nature of life on our living planet. You are invited to join conversations with people who have shed their cultural blinkers and experience the wonder of existence.

Join us for our companion course for this third series, A Re-Enchanted World.

Everyone who would like to engage more deeply is welcome!

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Webinar Recordings

October 10, 2025

Dr. Jack Hunter is an anthropologist exploring the borderlands of consciousness, religion, ecology and the paranormal. He is an Honorary Research Fellow with the Alister Hardy Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, and a tutor at the Sophia Centre for the Study of Cosmology in Culture, University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He teaches on the MA in Ecology and Spirituality and the MA in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology. He is also a tutor for the Alef Trust on their MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology, where he teaches on the ‘Approaches to Consciousness’ module. He is the author of Manifesting Spirits (2020), Spirits, Gods and Magic (2020), Ecology and Spirituality (2023), and The Folklore of the Tanat Valley (2025). He is the  editor of Deep Weird (2023), Greening the Paranormal (2019) and Damned Facts (2016), and co-editor of Talking With the Spirits (2014), Mattering the Invisible (2021), Folklore, People and Place (2023) and Sacred Geography (2024). He lives in the hills of Mid-Wales with his family.

October 3, 2025

David George Haskell’s book How Flowers Made our World: Revolutions of Beauty, Cooperation, and Illusion will be published in spring 2026. He is a biologist and writer whose previous books, The Forest Unseen, The Songs of Trees, Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree, and Sounds Wild and Broken have received many awards, including twice being finalists for a Pulitzer Prize. He has also written essays and multimedia projects for Emergence Magazine, The New York Times, and other publications. In 2024, the American Academy of Arts and Letters granted him an Award in Literature. Haskell’s college classes have received national attention for the innovative ways they combine action in the community with contemplative practice. Haskell lives in Atlanta, Georgia. https://dghaskell.com/.

September 26, 2025

Philip Carr-Gomm trained in psychotherapy for adults at The Institute of Psychosynthesis, in play therapy for children with Dr Rachel Pinney, and in Sophrology. Philip studied Druidry as a spiritual path with Ross Nichols, the founder of The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids and led the Order until June 2020. Since then, having worked for the Synthesis Institute, he is now involved in the work of the ACER Integration programme and the Sophrology Institute. In recent years he has also pursued his interest in spiritual practices by training to be a teacher of Yoga Nidra and Mindfulness Meditation, and has created an online school, The Art of Living Well, to offer courses that combine psychological and spiritual understanding.

September 12, 2025

Erik Jampa Andersson, MA, is an environmental historian, teacher, and the author of Unseen Beings: How We Forgot the World is More Than Human (Hay House UK, 2023). With a twenty-year background in Tibetan studies, his current research focuses on animistic philosophies and the critical intersection of ecology, spirituality, and health in a more-than-human world. His research also extends into the field of Tolkien studies, where he explores critical ecological and animistic themes in J.R.R. Tolkien’s mythopoeic corpus. Erik holds an MA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a graduate of the Shang Shung Institute School of Tibetan Medicine. 

September 5, 2025

Patrick Curry is a writer and scholar living in London. He holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from University College London and has been a Lecturer at the universities of Kent and Bath Spa. He is the author of Defending Middle-Earth: Tolkien, Myth and Modernity (2004), Ecological Ethics (2017), Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life (2019) and most recently Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works (2023).  He is also Editor-in Chief of The Ecological Citizen (http://www.ecologicalcitizen.net/). More information can be found on www.patrickcurry.co.uk.

August 29th, 2025

Harry Wels calls himself a ‘multispecies organizational ethnographer’ and is Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the African Studies Centre Leiden at Leiden University and Extra Ordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa at the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies. He has this idea that there is no time to waste to keep on studying and reflecting on our multispecies entanglements and share and discuss his thoughts about this with students and colleagues. Many of his reflections are about learning what to unlearn in terms of assumptions, biases, prejudices, convictions, reflexes, impulses, beliefs, habits, lifestyles, manhood, relations, morality, ideas about right and wrong, and what not.

Saskia Stehouwer (Alkmaar, the Netherlands, 1975) studied Dutch and English literature at the University of Amsterdam. Saskia’s first volume of poetry, entitled wachtkamers (waiting rooms) was published by Marmer Publishers in October 2014 and received the prestigious C. Buddingh’-prize for poetry in 2015. Her second book, vrije uitloop (free range) was published in October 2016. In 2019, Saskia published the compostable poetry book bindweefsel (connective tissue) which was handwritten on homemade paper from kitchen scraps and plants. The book can be thrown on the compost heap after reading so that it can return to the cycle of nature. A translation of the book is underway.  Saskia is one of the founders and core members of the Klimaatdichters (Climate poets), a collective of over 250 Dutch and Flemish poets who use their words to raise awareness around climate issues. Her most recent book of poetry is called wonen op de rand van het wonder (living on the edge of the miracle, Marmer 2023). 

August 22nd, 2025

Brooke William’s life has been one of adventure and wilderness exploration. His conservation career spans forty years. His most recent book is  Encountering Dragonfly, Notes on the Practice of Re-Enchantment. He’s now documenting his quest to know how the planet can make the best use of him. He believes that the length of the past equals the length of the future. He lives near Moab, Utah with the writer, Terry Tempest Williams and two cats, where they watch the light and wait for rain. 

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