Substacks recommended by Caroline Ross

Recommended by 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

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.

Sam Masich Internal Arts

Sam Masich's forty-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

The Gusset

By Sarah C Swett

Field research in the expanse between the tactile and the intangible; noticing yarn, light, line, things that want to be made, and the luminous joy of working with the materials at hand.

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

- Caroline Ross

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

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

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By Philip Traylen

A diary updated once or twice weekly, including a poem if things are going particularly poorly. Other texts - fiction, etc - and mystical gratitude for paid subscribers.

Phasmatopia

By R. G. Miga

Writing (about) fiction, at the end of the world and beyond. Magical realism; solarpunk; stories about the more-than-human world, and about ordinary people redrawing the maps of power.

Thought-provoking, uncanny and engrossing.

- Caroline Ross

The Art of Enchantment, with Dr Sharon Blackie

New writing 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 the enchanted life.

Mythic news from the natural world and the Otherworld

- Caroline Ross

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

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

Flat Caps and Fatalism

By FFatalism

From Yorkshire

Pilgrims in the Machine

By Peco

Mind and Spirit in the shadow of Technology

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

Immortality Study

By Robert J Coons

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

From The Forests of Arduinna

By Rhyd Wildermuth

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

The Abbey of Misrule

By Paul Kingsnorth

Do not be conformed to this world

Unverified Revelations

By existentialpervert69

The Forbidden Playground

By Carlo Navato

A collection of entangled parts. Fragments from a life making space. Fuelled by obsessive curiosity and a celebration of the abundant possibilities of holding uncertainty lightly.

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