be® yourself
be® is a new site from General Eclectic, it is designed to support and archive content ideas for an upcoming magazine, first edition due Winter 2024.
Scrolling Post Archives
Here are a selection of articles, curated videos from YouTube, and many other relevant, aggreeable and satisfying posts from various sources.
Wisdom begins with Wonder
Socrates – ergo…
Enlightenment begins with Experience – Consciousness begins with Curiosity
Awareness begins with Action
The Marginalian
Hello. My name is Maria Popova and The Marginalian is a record of my reading and reckoning with our search for meaning: sometimes through science and philosophy, sometimes through poetry and children’s books, always through the lens of wonder. Founded in 2006 as an email to seven friends under the outgrown name Brain Pickings and […]
Trashtopia – Michael Goldrei Photography
Trashtopia Trashtopia is my series of street photography of the street itself. While travelling through Cuba at the end of 2016, I started noticing discarded items in the street that looked very different to those back home in England. I decided to see whether you can tell the character of a place by its waste. […]
On Being Podcast
The people who gather around On Being are part of the generative narrative of our time. In all kinds of lives, in all kinds of places, they are healers and social creatives. At human pace, they are enlivening the world that they can see and touch. In generational time, they are stitching relationship across rupture. […]
Good Stuff
In Being, we select relevant and ethical products and services that will help improve ‘quality of living’. Avoiding the use of unsustainable plastics and synthetic materials, simple ideas, solutions and amenities that are affordable, sustainable, reusable, and long lasting. Ecofiltro Website and Purchase
On Emotional Health
Aeon | Psyche Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy and the arts. Browse, scroll and navigate through the two sites within Sparky, or visit and/or subscribe safely to Aeon at psyche or aeon directly.
Just Thinking …
Empathy over conflict, it’s all a matter of perspective Social Perspective – there are only two ways of responding to any challenging social circumstance or situation, positively or negatively, these are basic responses in individuals within the wider community, especially when feeling vulnerable or under threat. Human nature being what it is, usually tends towards the negative, as in […]
Asleep while Awake
The image above: Come Hell or High Water by COCO AMARDEIL more about this image below Sleep – In a Nutshell What Happens When You Sleep? Written by Eric Suni Last Fact Check – October 30, 2020 Medically Reviewed by – Dr. Ealena Callender Home /Sleep Topics/ What Happens When You Sleep? When you sleep, […]
Sean Scully at Sant Cecília
Please see the earlier video below which was made at and by the Museu de Montserrat and is more direct by way of a depiction and sense of place and intervention by the artist. In July 2016, during a visit by Sean Scully to the Romanesque church of St. Cecilia, a video was recorded in which […]
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge
Charles Darwin
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