Tim Adalin

I am a philosopher and founder of The Voicecraft Project, Altered States Of Conversation, Underground Philosophy, and a guide for expansive general thinking. I work across networks of thinkers, artists, founders, and builders who share a desire to create projects of spiritual integrity and cultural value. I love to draw vitality and insight from individuals and groups in conversation.

With a focus on participating in transformation, I am interested in questions of metaphysics: what is; what knowing is; and what it means to care and value. Through this, I seek to create art, make relations, and build deep rooted things. I hold at least one simple truth to be self-evident: that the way we communicate is pivotal to the realisation of a better future.

Some of the nameable influences on my early philosophical journey were Alfred North Whitehead, C.G. Jung, Henri Bergson, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, Laozi, and the distributed compilers of spiritual texts across East and West, of which I have studied a thousand and one fragments. In recent chapters of my life I have been a philosopher-builder, seeking to cultivate fields and structures to support participatory philosophy in our time.

On this journey I have been drawn toward relating with questions and threads shared by peers in discourses influenced by process philosophy, depth psychology and psychoanalysis, varieties of complex systems science, those who take seriously the relation between mysticism and analysis, those who have loved, lost, and loved again, and anyone who exhibits virtues of courage, care, humility, and curiousity.

In 2016 I founded The Voicecraft Project, a work of culture-making that seeks to increase the quality of communication that underpins discourse, so that more people can call on greater wisdom. You can find Voicecraft conversations on YouTube, as podcasts, at live events, in its academy, or through participation in, or work with, its pioneering online guild and network.

While the vast majority of my adult learning and interests have been pursued beyond academic grounds, I have received a Masters in Philosophy from the University of Bristol, and a BA in Philosophy and International Relations from the Australian National University. In this context, some of the questions I pursued circled on mysticism and its relation to analysis; phenomenology and its relation to ontology; psychedelics and profound experiences and their relation to questions of identity, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics; mind and its relation to matter; and the relation of humanity to death, power, violence, and the sacred.

I believe that revitalised and reimagined forms of civic participation are crucial to the loving transformation of relationship between psyche, culture, and nature.