Substacks recommended by Caroline Ross

Recommended by Caroline Ross

The Abbey of Misrule

By Paul Kingsnorth

Do not be conformed to this world

Paul asks deep questions others have yet to imagine, let alone answer.

- Caroline Ross

Sam Masich Internal Arts

Sam Masich's forty-five plus years of research and practice has resulted in unique insight into subjects related to the internal martial and health arts as well as other topics.

Sam's one of the great contemporary T'ai Chi masters and one of the clearest communicators I ever met. Read him for real insight into practice.

- Caroline Ross

Dear Magician

By Rosie Whinray

A Wizard's field notes ~ Art, politics, magic ~ City-watching, beach-combing, omens, ideas ~ A zuihitsu of the weirdinary

Art, land, life and practice, alongside great art and photography.

- Caroline Ross

Pilgrims in the Machine

By Peco

being human in an age of change

Caravanserai

By Joumana Medlej

An artist lighting her way through dark times by relearning forgotten art practices and natural ways.

A bright window into ancient art materials, early Arabic calligraphy, plus art and research from this London-based Lebanese artist, whose work and books I love.

- Caroline Ross

School of the Unconformed

By Ruth Gaskovski

Practical guidance for navigating daily life in the Machine Age.

David Benjamin Blower

Messianism, anarchy & ecology: global village folklore.

Why eat scraps when a feast for the spirit is available here?

- Caroline Ross

Everything is Personal

By Laurie Stone

The story is not about what happened, it's about what the narrator makes of what happened.

Up There The Last

By Max

A real-time traditional food conservation project for the active remembering, revival and perpetuation of our disappearing food heritage

The origins of great food, the living practices of their making, and the culture and terroir behind it all.

- Caroline Ross

Immortality Study

By Robert J Coons and Lin Zhang

Learn Meditation, Qigong and Daoist Literature in the secular tradition founded by Chen Yingning.

Robert's clear writing is full of humour and Taoist wisdom. 'Everyone despises a micromanager and everyone loves someone who leads by example and spreads positivity. Have you ever thought that positivity is in fact a very simple thing? Everyone knows what it is, almost everyone appreciates it, and it doesn't require anything except a change of mind.'

- Caroline Ross

The Art of Enchantment, with Dr Sharon Blackie

New work from the award-winning author and psychologist. A gathering place for lovers of myth, fairy tales and depth psychology, exploring the mysteries of the psyche and reimagining women's stories.

Mythic news from the natural world and the Otherworld

- Caroline Ross

The Matter with Things

By Iain McGilchrist

How to realise life, humanity and the cosmos anew

Bog-down and Aster

By Andrew

Ongoing dowse for the She of G-d and other lost family.

These poems are living hollow bird bones playing earth music.

- Caroline Ross

The Convivial Society

By L. M. Sacasas

Thinking about technology, society, and the good life.

Worth reading for the essay 'Lonely Surfaces', alone.

- Caroline Ross

Found and Ground Newsletter

The newsletter for the art and natural arts materials teaching and books of Caroline Ross.

The books, natural art materials and craft teaching of Caroline Ross

- Caroline Ross

The Peasantry School Newsletter

By Adam Wilson

Stories about disentangling food and feeding from the market.

How the land, creatures, plants and people can sing together again.

- Caroline Ross

Phasmatopia

By R. G. Miga

Autodidactic rambling about applied metaphysics and esotericism, how worlds are made and what lives in the dark spaces between them. Dangerous for skeptics, materialists, and other philosophical buzzkills.

Thought-provoking, uncanny and engrossing.

- Caroline Ross

Connecting Conversations

By Lydia Catterall

A newsletter and meeting place where open landscapes and minute detail get the same airtime. Noisy cheerleading, unfinished thoughts and fizzy questions to be expected. Launched by artist, Lydia Catterall, in 2019.

Fortnightly inspirations, meanderngs and wondering aloud on art, life and the possibility of community.

- Caroline Ross

Writing Home

By Dougald Hine

A series of letters and essays from Dougald Hine. Turning aside from the one big path that was meant to lead to the future, no longer in service to its promises, asking what else is worth doing with the time we have.

Unpicking modernity with compassion.

- Caroline Ross

From The Forests of Arduinna

By Rhyd Wildermuth

A druid's essays on politics, culture, and the sacred at the end of empire.

Required reading for keeping an open mind and a bold heart.

- Caroline Ross

Neurodiverse Universe

By Dr Gemma L. Williams

A newsletter from Dr Gemma Williams PhD, exploring the science of neurodivergence, difference, marginality, and belonging. ISSN 2979-1006

Clear, incredibly helpful communication from research and studies from the wilder shores beyond 'normal'. A must for those who want to understand neurodiversity better.

- Caroline Ross

Web Warbler

By WEB WARBLER ◉ K. Annie B.

I type out the niblets of life caught in my windpipes, you may read them

Emerging Hermit

Emergent hermit, poet, novelist, mentor.

Always arresting poetry and deep thinking.

- Caroline Ross

Fully Alive by Elizabeth Oldfield

I’m Elizabeth Oldfield and I write about tending to our souls, staying loyal to our values and seeking spiritual core strength in these trembling times. Spirituality, poetry, plants.

Wise questions asked with clarity and the genuine desire to listen to wildly different replies.

- Caroline Ross

Stillness in the West

By Jack Leahy

Thoughts on the contemplative life at the end of the Human Age. "Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” --St. Seraphim of Sarov.

Jack's reflections and contemplations always seem to return me to practice and deep enquiry.

- Caroline Ross

The Red Tent

By Charlotte Du Cann

A metaphysical practice for collapsing times. Rooted in earth and sky.

Deep myth and practical connection for those who want to really be on-planet.

- Caroline Ross

J. S. Collyer's Substack

Looking to share spooky stories with fellow lovers of weird tales

The Gusset

By Sarah C Swett

Field research in the expanse between the tactile and the intangible; noticing yarn, light, line, and things that want to be made with the materials at hand. In short--tales of a yarnish life with Beryl, my dog.

Fibre, the art life, morale, joy, materials - everything you could want in a good read.

- Caroline Ross

The Tuning Fork

By Vanessa Chamberlin

Notes from the resounding Deep (תְּהוֹם). Theo-poeisis, ancient ways, fierce beauty and unbecomings.

Flat Caps and Fatalism

By FFatalism

From Yorkshire

I wish the anonymous author of this Substack would pick up his pen again...

- Caroline Ross