Dr. Renatus Derbidge

Dr. Renatus Derbidge is a nature writer, beekeeper, and guide to Scottish wild and sacred places. Trained as a biologist and in Goethean science, he practices a phenomenological, contemplative approach to land and animals. Through his project Sacred Isles (knowyourself.land), he helps people meet landscapes and other-than-human beings as part of a shared soul-landscape and a living spiritual ecology.

Dr. Renatus Derbidge in Kosmos

Can Anything Still Touch Us?

A single wildlife photograph stops a writer mid-scroll, breaking through the numbness of our image-saturated lives. Confronted by a sloth clinging to a fencepost in fragmented habitat, he explores what it means to still be touched—by grief, tenderness, kinship—and what such moments ask of us.

Published in Volume 25 Issue 6

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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,