3rd Spaces
3rd Space explores new perspectives beyond
binaries, seeking diverse, dynamic outcomes
We look for contemporary expressions of culture, where principles of being and becoming, unity and diversity, cosmopolitan and local, are not seen in opposition to each other, but as fluid interdependent expressions of our existential wholeness. Through the content we feature, 3rd space seeks to redefine modernity as well as the current reductive view of ‘globalisation’. Our objective is to facilitate contemporary, practical expressions of the ‘implicate order’ of existence.
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Why are we here? Getting to grips with the QUESTion Project
3rd Space: Welcome Gerard and Francesca! Could you start by telling us what the QUESTion Project is, what are its aims and vision, and who it serves. Gerard: It’s a semester or …
Mindfulness and Meditation – a secular hijack?
The practice of Mindfulness, as everyone knows, has taken off in a big way in the western hemisphere. It is the most successful ‘non-religious’, awareness-based, self-help practice to establish …
The Opposite of a Cynic: David Graeber, 1961-2020
What is the opposite of a cynic? I have been wondering about this question since I heard the news of David Graeber’s death yesterday. I haven’t quite been able …
The Need For A New Politics
In 1991 India changed. We opened up. We started becoming part of the global economy. Globalisation finally engulfed us. Slowly some disturbing signs started emerging. In 1996 we at SIDH (“Society for the Integrated …
Filmmaker Renate Keller on her documentary of Indian mystic and social activist, Vimala Thakar
3rd Space: Welcome Renata. You recently completed a documentary on the life and message of Vimala Thakar, called The Fire of Dancing Stillness – Reflections with Vimala Thakar. Could you tell …
Requiem for Nature in Britain – Devastation in our Green and Pleasant Land
Our hearts go out when we see one of those awful pictures of a disoriented, lost orangutan in the debris of clear-cut rainforest somewhere in Indonesia, which up to …
Being at Home in the World
There is a very long history in the western world to our experience of being a separate individual, atomised from the world; a world that right now, as a …
Psychedelic Communities, Social Justice, and Kinship in the Capitalocene
Is therapy and “self-help” the best or only paradigm for psychedelic culture to flourish? Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk offer a critical assessment of humanity and suggest how psychedelic …
A Civilisational Pause – What Will Follow ‘Normal’?
No one could have imagined the behemoth of neoliberal capitalism – the god and engine of modern life – brought to its knees literally within a mere blink in …
Tu Weiming: Spiritual Humanism: An Emerging Global Discourse
In this video, Professor Tu Weiming, versed in eastern and western thought, gives a beautifully articulate and cogent talk on the need for Spiritual Humanism, which he sees as …
Ceiba – Revolutionising the Shipping Industry
In February 2020 Antarctica hit an unthinkable record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius, rivalling that of an average (summer) June day in London. Brazilian scientists conducting research from Seymour …
Gandhi in the 21st Century
“I hope the fragrance of the non-violence of India would permeate the whole world. I often wonder if that hope will materialize.” Mohandas Gandhi For all of us, there …
Post-Material Science Already Exists
Today, thousands of professionals around the world use knowledge that is at the frontier of conventional science with fantastic results, but they are still considered ‘witch doctors’ more than …
Pressing ‘Reset’ in the Anthropocene: Global Social Witnessing as an Awareness-Based Practice for Global Citizenship
You swipe through your favourite news site while sitting in a train, and you enter the typical bombardment of information – “four degrees climate change temperature rise possible”,“rainforest burning”, …
A Question of Progress
Part One: Positive Disintegration – are we willing? “Something ancient asks us to give account of our centrality. To heed is to die. And there in lies our …
A Question of Progress
Part Two: Breaking the Cycle – conscious uncivilising “Its very difficult to ask people to give up the assumptions by which they have always lived, and yet that is …
Poems of Sushri Sangita Mishra
The Poems: Truth I have walked very long on the rocky bed of time In my effort to excavate truth many times, I have fallen into the pit …
The Problem with Western Universalism (long read)
Part 1. The Sabarimala Temple Controversy In January 2019, I read two related articles in the media that immediately caught my attention, being a regular visitor to India. The …
Extinction Rebellion & the Climate Emergency – The Case for Civil Disruption (long read)
Alexandria Villsenor, 13, has spent every Friday since December wrapped in a winter coat outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, protesting the glacial response to climate …
Century of the Self part 1: “Happiness Machines” (video)
This documentary series is a deeply insightful study of how the consumerist driven, capitalist, liberal democracies of the modern world were formed in the early 20th century.
“This is not a University subject, this is a universal subject” – Dr. Vasudevan speaking on Ayurveda
Western medicine, like the worldview that sustains it, for all its incredible achievements, and there are many, has a profound inbuilt limitation.
Reinterpreting Vaastu
Sashikala Ananth is a leading exponent in India of Vaastu, the traditional architecture of the Indic civilisation.
Dialogue with Alnoor Ladha – in nine short podcasts
We met Alnoor Ladha at his home in Tierra Valiente, the community he helped create in 2016 in Costa Rica. We talked about The Rules, Community, Capitalism, his Sufism, …
#’Me-too’ to ‘We-too’
This essay looks specifically at the unresolved issue of gender relations, and its cross-cultural intersections as highlighted by the #MeToo movement.
Tradition through the Looking-Glass
In India, my experience of tradition (and just about everything else) was like going down the rabbit hole.
Spaces of Transformation – Epistemologies of the South (video)
To Boaventura de Sousa Santos, understanding of the world far exceeds Western understanding of the world. Even though there is a growing recognition in the west of the cultural diversity of the world, he believes this does not extend to a recognition of the diversity of knowledge systems of the world.
- All
- Culture
- Education
- Environment
- Gender
- Poetry
- Politics
- Politics and Culture
- Science and Medicine
- Spirituality and Culture
- Thinking
Why are we here? Getting to grips with the QUESTion Project
3rd Space: Welcome Gerard and Francesca! Could you start by telling us what the QUESTion Project is, what are its aims and vision, and who it serves. Gerard: It’s a semester or …
Mindfulness and Meditation – a secular hijack?
The practice of Mindfulness, as everyone knows, has taken off in a big way in the western hemisphere. It is the most successful ‘non-religious’, awareness-based, self-help practice to establish …
The Opposite of a Cynic: David Graeber, 1961-2020
What is the opposite of a cynic? I have been wondering about this question since I heard the news of David Graeber’s death yesterday. I haven’t quite been able …
The Need For A New Politics
In 1991 India changed. We opened up. We started becoming part of the global economy. Globalisation finally engulfed us. Slowly some disturbing signs started emerging. In 1996 we at SIDH (“Society for the Integrated …
Filmmaker Renate Keller on her documentary of Indian mystic and social activist, Vimala Thakar
3rd Space: Welcome Renata. You recently completed a documentary on the life and message of Vimala Thakar, called The Fire of Dancing Stillness – Reflections with Vimala Thakar. Could you tell …
Requiem for Nature in Britain – Devastation in our Green and Pleasant Land
Our hearts go out when we see one of those awful pictures of a disoriented, lost orangutan in the debris of clear-cut rainforest somewhere in Indonesia, which up to …
Being at Home in the World
There is a very long history in the western world to our experience of being a separate individual, atomised from the world; a world that right now, as a …
Psychedelic Communities, Social Justice, and Kinship in the Capitalocene
Is therapy and “self-help” the best or only paradigm for psychedelic culture to flourish? Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk offer a critical assessment of humanity and suggest how psychedelic …
A Civilisational Pause – What Will Follow ‘Normal’?
No one could have imagined the behemoth of neoliberal capitalism – the god and engine of modern life – brought to its knees literally within a mere blink in …
Tu Weiming: Spiritual Humanism: An Emerging Global Discourse
In this video, Professor Tu Weiming, versed in eastern and western thought, gives a beautifully articulate and cogent talk on the need for Spiritual Humanism, which he sees as …
Ceiba – Revolutionising the Shipping Industry
In February 2020 Antarctica hit an unthinkable record temperature of 20.75 degrees Celsius, rivalling that of an average (summer) June day in London. Brazilian scientists conducting research from Seymour …
Gandhi in the 21st Century
“I hope the fragrance of the non-violence of India would permeate the whole world. I often wonder if that hope will materialize.” Mohandas Gandhi For all of us, there …
Post-Material Science Already Exists
Today, thousands of professionals around the world use knowledge that is at the frontier of conventional science with fantastic results, but they are still considered ‘witch doctors’ more than …
Pressing ‘Reset’ in the Anthropocene: Global Social Witnessing as an Awareness-Based Practice for Global Citizenship
You swipe through your favourite news site while sitting in a train, and you enter the typical bombardment of information – “four degrees climate change temperature rise possible”,“rainforest burning”, …
A Question of Progress
Part One: Positive Disintegration – are we willing? “Something ancient asks us to give account of our centrality. To heed is to die. And there in lies our …
A Question of Progress
Part Two: Breaking the Cycle – conscious uncivilising “Its very difficult to ask people to give up the assumptions by which they have always lived, and yet that is …
Poems of Sushri Sangita Mishra
The Poems: Truth I have walked very long on the rocky bed of time In my effort to excavate truth many times, I have fallen into the pit …
The Problem with Western Universalism (long read)
Part 1. The Sabarimala Temple Controversy In January 2019, I read two related articles in the media that immediately caught my attention, being a regular visitor to India. The …
Extinction Rebellion & the Climate Emergency – The Case for Civil Disruption (long read)
Alexandria Villsenor, 13, has spent every Friday since December wrapped in a winter coat outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City, protesting the glacial response to climate …
Century of the Self part 1: “Happiness Machines” (video)
This documentary series is a deeply insightful study of how the consumerist driven, capitalist, liberal democracies of the modern world were formed in the early 20th century.
“This is not a University subject, this is a universal subject” – Dr. Vasudevan speaking on Ayurveda
Western medicine, like the worldview that sustains it, for all its incredible achievements, and there are many, has a profound inbuilt limitation.
Reinterpreting Vaastu
Sashikala Ananth is a leading exponent in India of Vaastu, the traditional architecture of the Indic civilisation.
Dialogue with Alnoor Ladha – in nine short podcasts
We met Alnoor Ladha at his home in Tierra Valiente, the community he helped create in 2016 in Costa Rica. We talked about The Rules, Community, Capitalism, his Sufism, …
#’Me-too’ to ‘We-too’
This essay looks specifically at the unresolved issue of gender relations, and its cross-cultural intersections as highlighted by the #MeToo movement.
Tradition through the Looking-Glass
In India, my experience of tradition (and just about everything else) was like going down the rabbit hole.
Spaces of Transformation – Epistemologies of the South (video)
To Boaventura de Sousa Santos, understanding of the world far exceeds Western understanding of the world. Even though there is a growing recognition in the west of the cultural diversity of the world, he believes this does not extend to a recognition of the diversity of knowledge systems of the world.
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