The Age of Bear and Raven – Orion Magazine
The Age of Bear and Raven – It's time to rework our relationship with nature. Essay by Dr. Martin Shaw for Orion Magazine: https://orionmagazine.org/article/the-age-of-bear-and-raven/
Navigating the Mysteries – Emergence Magazine
As we walk our questions into a troubled future, storyteller and mythologist Martin Shaw invites us to subvert today’s voices of certainty and do the hard work of opening to mystery. Essay and narration by Dr. Martin Shaw for Emergence Magazine: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/navigating-the-mysteries/ Listen on the Emergence Magazine Podacast.
Scatterlings – The Guardian Top 10 Books About Human Consciousness
Scatterlings lands at No.2 on Charles Foster's top ten books about human consciousness for The Guardian. Read the article.
A Hut at the Edge of the Village, Martin Shaw on John Moriarty
'There is always something of a thrill when you discover a secret, and out there in the wider world John is pretty much that. His work rattles around in the deep interior, is not invested in handrails. Moriarty is speaking to a wiser, stranger part of ourselves. A dimension we may barely register. He circumnavigates small talk and escorts us from the shopping mall and out under a hundred thousand stars.' Martin Shaw on John Moriarty, in The Honest Ulsterman
On Editing A Hut at the Edge of the Village
'Working nightly into his Christian visioning excavated something in my own heart. A powerful, almost pagan Jesus announced himself. Not reassuring, troubling not easy, as if I was standing at the doorway of a new life.' - Martin Shaw on editing the new collection of John Moriarty's writings, for writing.ie Martin Shaw: On Editing A Hut at the Edge of the Village
On Celtic Storytelling, From the Bardic to the Mythic
Martin Shaw on Growing Up Christian with a Pagan Underbelly https://lithub.com/on-celtic-storytelling-from-the-bardic-to-the-mythic/
Is This an Initiation? An Urgent Invitation to Beautiful Learning
In pondering whether the coronavirus serves as a rite of initiation, Martin Shaw offers five reflections on the agency that rests within opportunity, the alchemy of experience, and the beautiful learning that is being called forth from this moment over at Emergence Magazine. https://emergencemagazine.org/story/is-this-an-initiation/
Keeping the Smoke Hole Open: Seek Vigil Not Isolation
Martin Shaw for Emergence Magazine shares the op-ed Keeping the Smoke Hole Open: Seek Vigil not Isolation. https://emergencemagazine.org/story/keeping-the-smoke-hole-open/
The Radical Power of Storytelling Yes! Magazine
Despite the distractions and anxieties of the modern world, we still have the powerful capacity for wonder. https://www.yesmagazine.org/health-happiness/2020/03/10/radical-power-storytelling/ Illustration by Okalinichenko