Natural Realm

The earth itself is a record. Its geology, its cycles, its atmospheric behaviour, and the substances it produces carry evidence of events and conditions that the standard historical timeline does not account for. This category examines the natural world as primary source: catastrophism and the physical evidence of civilisational disruption, the properties of sulphur and aether and radium that once carried meanings science has since narrowed, the warm Arctic and fertile poles that appear on maps drawn long before anyone claims to have visited them. Nature was not a backdrop to human history. In many cases, it was the event.

The Body Is Light: Rainbow Body and the Memory of Human Capacity

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In September 1998, a Tibetan Buddhist master named Khenchen Tsewang Rigdzin died in eastern Tibet. Over the days that followed, witnesses reported that his...

Hildegard von Bingen: Before Knowledge Was Divided

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In the twelfth century, Hildegard von Bingen, a Benedictine abbess in the Rhineland, decided that the existing words were not enough. She had things...

Sulphur: Fire, Soul, and the Operating Principle of the Old World

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Sulphur occupied a central place in the intellectual and practical systems of the Old World. It was not treated as a curiosity of the...

The Year Without a Summer: Life Beneath the Cloud of 1816

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In the spring of 1816, the rhythm of the seasons began to slip. The snow lingered longer than expected. Warmth came late, and when...

The Other Watchers: Yuletide Spirits of Reckoning

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Across the Alpine slopes, the Black Forest, and into the Low Countries, a whole host of winter watchers once roamed. Some were cloaked in...
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