The Cairns..….The Ness…..From ‘Emergence’ Magazine’……
by Bernie Bell - 08:44 on 12 June 2025
The Cairns….
…dig started on Monday….
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/09/cairns-d1-2025/
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/10/cairns-d2-2025/
https://archaeologyorkney.com/2025/06/11/cairns-d3-2025/
Barring accidents – we’ll go there and I’ll tell you what we see!
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The Ness…
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/summer-exhibition-2025/
And….
https://www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/geophysics-2025/
It’s still there!
The Ness Sleeps
The Ness sleeps
Under earth
Under sky
Between Lochs.
Grass will come
Flowers will come
To form a blanket
Keeping it safe.
Knowing folk will come
To break its slumber
What might they
Uncover?
BB Sept. ‘24
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine’……
by Sophie Strand
“I want to think and feel and weep and grieve with my whole multispecies, polynucleated mind.”
Letting her consciousness slip from the confines of her brain into the long tubes of hyphae that make up the mycelial network beneath her feet, author Sophie Strand wonders how much better we might think if we involved the wide web of more-than-human beings around us. She challenges the idea that our minds are individual—like siloed cells resisting exchange with the outside world—and offers a practice of opening up to a “supracellular state” in which thinking is less bound to an organ and more a relational process that moves through the fungal, geological, microbial, vegetal, ancestral threads that connect us with our ecosystem. This exercise in embodied empathy enables Sophie to enter the minds of rivers, black bears, and chanterelles; and as the borders between physical matter dissolve, her self flows into a wider space of multiplicity. She feels in the extended web of her cognition both the wonder of the land’s otherness and the pain of its increasing disruption.
This essay is the first in a series of four we are sharing over the next month in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/supracellular/
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