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New Self, New World challenges the primary story of what it means to be human, the random and materialistic lifestyle that author Philip Shepherd calls our "shattered reality". This reality encourages us to live in our heads, self-absorbed in our own anxieties. Drawing on diverse sources and inspiration, New Self, New World reveals that our state of head-consciousness falsely teaches us to see the body as something we possess and to try to take care of it without ever really learning how to inhabit it.

From Dickens's A Christmas Carol to the ghost stories of M.R. James, the tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the centuries. The twelve stories of The Winter Spirits are all centred around Christmas or Advent, boldly and playfully re-imagining a beloved tradition for a modern audience. Taking you from a haunted Tuscan villa to a remote Scottish island with a dark secret, and drawing inspiration from festive traditions from all around the globe, these vibrant haunted stories are your ultimate companion for frosty nights.

A podcast about diabetes and genes hosted by Andrew Hattersley and Maggie Shepherd.

Andrew Shepherd cuts beneath the surface of our polarization, political and otherwise, through deeper understandings of psychology and the power of conscious conversation with fascinating guests on a wide variety of topics. His thesis is that our polarization is a manufactured illusion. When we dive into the worldview of another, our minds expand to encompass a larger perception of reality in which our perspectives converge.