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As the darkness of solstice brings the light back to the world, Brian Georges takes us on a metaphysical journey into the eternal question about the purpose of human beings on Earth and within the cosmos.

This week in our archive month, Anthea Lawson selects Mat Osmond's penetrating essay on the visionary artist Meinrad Craighead and the relationships between, attention, heart, imagination and the living world. From Issue 13.

Continuing this week with a selection from the pages of our new issue, we bring you an essay on mourning and regenerative culture by Mat Osmond With ancestral tree artwork by Kate Walters.

In the final post in our winter Becoming Human series, Uma Dinsmore-Tuli declares a reclamation of sleep in an insomniac culture.

Introducing this autumnn's Featured Mountaineer: a selection of poems by writer and illustrator Mat Osmond, who has contributed to Dark Mountain since 2009

On mass extinction, ecological recovery and the Rose-Garden Game

In an excerpt from Dark Mountain: Issue 14 – TERRA, Oana Sanziana Marian writes of the Romanian-Bulgarian border.

'We came to Standing Rock with much trepidation after hearing about the escalation of repression and resistance', excerpt from an essay in Issue 14 - TERRA with 'Oil Land' photographs by Jason Reed.

Rob Lewis on poetry, the language of science and indigenous kayaktivism

How the 'gentle space-making' of early Christian thought might rewild the imagination.