Brendan Myers

Brendan Myers is the author of nineteen books in philosophy, environmental ethics, history of ideas, spirituality, urban fantasy fiction, science fiction, and game design.

His ideas have been featured by the Pacific Business and Law Institute, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, the BC Civil Liberties Association, and the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids. He’s run four successful fundraising campaigns on Kickstarter, chaired a labour union, presented a TED talk,  and hunted for fairy tales in seven European countries.

Originally from Elora, Ontario, Brendan holds a PhD in philosophy from NUI Galway, and now serves as professor at CEGEP Heritage College, in Gatineau, Quebec. Through his publishing imprint, Northwest Passage Books, Brendan also provides self-publishing assistance and ethics consulting services to private clients.

Brendan Myers in Kosmos

Perceptual Intelligence

You cannot have deep knowledge of a landscape if your encounter with it is only occasional and superficial. It takes many years to gather the kind of deep knowledge I speak of here.

Published in Volume 21 Issue 4

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,