In more depth…

I am a philosopher with a focus on participation and transformation. I am interested in questions of metaphysics (what is, what knowing is, and what is the nature of, and our involvement with, what it means to care and value). Through questions of meaning, identity, philosophy and science, I have come to see that the process of communication, or the capacity to receive and transmute perception into expression as a generative-relational process of crafting voice, is pivotal to the realisation of desired existential realities.

Some of the nameable influences on my early philosophical journey were Alfred North Whitehead, C.G. Jung, Henri Bergson, William James, Friedrich Nietzsche, and the distributed compilers of spiritual texts across East and West, of which I have read and heard a thousand and one fragments. I don’t consider myself a philosopher-scholar, despite holding aspiration to engage the vital currents of perspective and understanding which shape our world. In recent chapters of my life I have been something closer to a philosopher on the ground, seeking to cultivate fields and structures to support a more vital, 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, integral theory, metamodernism, 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 otherwise exhibits virtues of courage, care, humility, and curiousity.

In 2017 I founded the Voicecraft Project, an endeavour toward creating and sustaining contexts where conversation is capable of addressing the heart of what matters in the real of modern life, in touch with the depths as well as the times. You can find Voicecraft conversations on YouTube, as podcasts, at live events, in its academy, or through participation in its pioneering online network. Voicecraft seeks to meet the desire for communication to be enjoyable, engaging and playful, without compromising the rigour and intensity of real navigation of complexity, uncertainty, and the demands of transdisciplinary, embodied, historically nuanced thinking.

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.

You can sign up to my Substack, or read it first, using this link. (It’s the same as the Voicecraft one, but on it I do publish or re-publish writing, as well as project updates and invitations.)