Matt Harvey
The following are excerpts taken from articles about Matt Harvey.
And it's goodbye from him
The world is split into two camps, those who are fascinated and excited by the very existence of the Large Hadron Collidor at CERN in Switzerland, and those who, through damage accrued in early years, poor nutrition and questionable choices made at various stages of their life, are slightly less enthusiastic. What’s not to get excited about? The smallest of the small – a hadron (it’s a kind of photon) – hurtling round 27km of sub-freezing underground tunnelling at speeds within a quark’s whisker…
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Client of the year!
Matt Harvey allows us a privileged peek into the secret world of his personal therapeutic journey. Since I began writing for Kindred Spirit I haven’t, to the best of my knowledge, mentioned therapy, or counselling, once. Nevertheless astute readers have been sending me small concerned-but-friendly messages along the general lines of ‘how’s the therapy going Matt?’ To be honest most of these…
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Ceremony and Ritual
The world of ceremony and ritual, while undoubtedly a wonderful world, replete with possibility, rich with meaning, effervescing with emotional intensity, is far too wide and deep a subject to address in one article. However, that’s not stopped me before, so I’d best crack on...We all like ceremony and ritual. Look at religions; at freemasonry; tea ceremonies; obsessive compulsive disorder. This love can be hidden, though. This is because we love ceremony and ritual in the same way we love poetry and formal dancing: We love it when it’s done right, for us, when it’s…
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Cargo Cults
My favourite Dylan Thomas quote goes,“Children in wonder watching the stars is the aim and the end.” It’s from Being But Men, which I commend to you. Meanwhile, I want to tell you about Cargo Cults. In the telling we’ll wander back towards wonder, via comparative cosmologies, wonder briefly about wondering, question whether quantum physics is akin to a cargo cult, and finish with a poem. It’s going to be great. Trust me. I wonder if you’ve heard of cargo cults. I was quite young when I was told, to my surprise and mild perturbation, that flotsam and…
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Fungi to be with
The quest for mystical experience can take many forms. For some it's through contemplation - of the stars, of sacred geometry, of the navel; for some it's via meditation, others prefer to ingest psychotropic substances.In KS not so long ago expert nutritionist Patrick Holford mentioned in passing that such numinous luminaries as Plato, Aristotle and Pythagoras ingested such things in their day, so there's a respectable precedent for what follows. My position vis-a-vis drugs will become clear but I should say at this point that the visions experienced by contributors to KS…
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Introducing...
Poet, broadcaster comedian, that sort of thing, Matt Harvey is a paradox - and yet he isn't. His consuming interest in the core concerns of contemporary society has led him into many interesting shops. Matt's 'Walk on the Mild Side' is one of the most popular regular features in Kindred Spirit magazine. Below are a few sample articles for you to get a feel for his work. We also have a selection of Matt's little books for sale in the Kindred Spirit webshop. Now you can download a special eBook compilation of the first 10 Walks on…
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