It is with the very heaviest of hearts that today we announce the passing of our dear friend, mentor and advisor, Stephan Harding.

It was Stephan’s pioneering and courageous work on the edge of science – a new holistic science that brings our subjective experience and felt relations with the natural world alongside the study of ecological processes – that so inspired the work that we now continue in his name. His insights, from a scientific perspective, were foundational in our understanding of contemporary animism, the experience that all life is intelligent, working, evolving and communicating together in a great collaboration.

In the days before his passing, Stephan asked us if we might remember his wonderful book, Animate Earth, to you. In the coming months we will bring together some of his friends, and all of you who can join us, to celebrate this wonderful piece of writing that is such a huge contribution to our understanding of humanity and its place within the natural world at this time.

Dearest Stephan, we salute you, we send our love with you towards the stars, we continue the work that you so powerfully and humbly brought in this lifetime, we will miss you so very much.