Anna Carroll

Here we are, living in a time of multiple global-level crises or what some call a polycrisis. Many crises all at once, tangled together, influencing each other. If it feels stressful, your body is responding to the situation correctly, but it's more than normal stress. It does not have a deadline. The threat never resolves. And even if it did, the news cycle wouldn't allow it to be gone. It needs to harvest your attention. If it feels overwhelming, you're right. Your physical, mental and...

Polycrisis is a term describing multiple crises at the same time. I'm sure you could give me a few examples in your own life - I give you one of mine. I was born in Europe, raised as a city girl and enjoyed living in Western Australia for a good decade before the idea of moving to a farm came up. When I married my husband, as it turned out, I stepped into a life his family had been living for generations, and one I hadn't exactly pictured for myself. It all went great, until the initial...

I have been collecting ideas for years, and finally I had the laser focus to organise them and use or discard them. This is how I bumped into one by Thomas Campbell, a former NASA physicist and consciousness researcher proposing that our universe operates more like a computer simulation than a fixed physical reality. I found this idea fascinating but didn't have the bandwidth to do anything with it, so it went into the pile of saved articles to be used one day. This often happens when I feel...