This is an age of bewilderment for which the current narratives about who we are and how we live have been eroded. We are living in troubled times of change and complexity. On any given day people around the globe seem to be experiencing some form of disorientation or disruption; economic uncertainty, social divisiveness, political turmoil, media manipulation, power hegemony, or are beset by catastrophic weather events due to anthropogenic climate change.
This period of lingering perplexity is exacerbated by various crises which have demonstrated that structural dehumanisation and systemic instrumentalisation of humanity prevails in our global socio-economy, political-economy and institutions.
Nevertheless, it is in the context of this most challenging time for humanity that we must pause, reflect, and take responsibility. In this way humanity is collectively looking for new narratives that may help us to navigate our way out of bewilderment, perplexity and crisis. This is because narrative, like cultural mythos, is fundamental to our common ways of being, and can articulate what we should value, what ought to constitute the good life, and how we can flourish together.
This is A Narrative of Love.
Research
In this Project, we are exploring the ways in which Love has been expressed in the great philosophical and wisdom traditions.
This research seeks to provide a foundation for taking Love seriously by acknowledging that Love is the energising force that animates all goodness and shapes all that is.
Conversations
“Love, in combination with truth, destroys the lie on which systems of oppression depend.”
“If we can save one seed, it will hold within it the imagination of love.”
“When healing work integrates a split past, something shifts not only in the present but retroactively.”
“Reaching agreement may feel like a betrayal of those who suffered, while failing to reach it betrays future generations.”
“In attunement and attention, silence is where love resides deeply within us.”
“It is not the external structures of the world that are driving events, but the quality of inner being.”
“Modern education has made a profound error in stripping beauty, meaning-making and spiritual development from the curriculum in pursuit of productivity.”
“Love as a spiritual foundation, love as a habit of the heart through which another’s well-being becomes our own, and love as justice in action.”
“In Dialogue and Diapraxis; working together across difference .. specific trust .. recognition that from polarised positions, we can serve together.”
Version, 10th March 2026.