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‘When I walk alone there is this inner hope and dream that with each step, we all walk together.’ In this book, Essays from Afar, eternal revolutionary, writer and artist Patrick Phillips presents to you something of his own journey so far – his experience of nature along the way, his own philosophy of nature and life itself. For example, beginning with his thoughts on the deserted village of Tirai; climbing his first mountain (Meall nan Tarmachan); experiencing rock art – cu

Art is often a way of translating human experience, akin to understanding the nature of something – its essence. Art is also often the desire to replicate what one has seen. Cup and ring marks therefore exemplify the human desire to capture the essence, the nature of what they had seen in rock as a record. Recreating that moment takes real effort, evoking the same unity in pleasure that men and women felt that day is a real privilege for us. Recently, I have been paying a lot

Inspiration: Make the connection between the presence of a tour guide, nature and yourself as your own ontological destiny of being in the world. When we take someone on a tour, we are not just taking them to be in the presence of nature, we are also taking them on a tour through the unique presence of ourselves. We are very much part of the ethical experience. There is an essence within us waiting to be revealed and presented to the world. It is, fundamentally, a collaborati

How does a mountain contribute to the quality of your life? How can we measure its powerful ontological quality when walking? What significant moments are we searching for? Every morning in front of a mountain are glimpses of the beginning, of creation. Ben Lawers is flesh and spirit in unity. Her name translates as 'speaking mountain'. As the weather began to change, the further up the mountain I went, so did my being, becoming more eternal, as I was surrounded by the eterna

John Berger, the art critic, once said in a TV interview: This creativity, which we are so attracted by in artists, which basically is why we are so interested in artists, this creativity, which in fact is potentially in everybody, will find it’s expression in life itself. I see art as we understand it as a tragic phenomenon. John Berger Talks to James Mossman – 1970. Climate change. We see, touch, taste, smell and hear about it every day. Mostly through media platforms. But

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Firstly, what is ecotourism? Before anything else, it represents the human need to travel. We’ll never stop doing so because it’s an intrinsic part of our being. We love to explore and discover what might be new to us, whether it be the known, unknown or rediscovered. It is that great sense of being awakened—we all need that too. The International Ecotourism Society defines ecotourism as “responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, sustains the well-be

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I met up with local wildlife photographer Richard Phillips, who had an incredible range of photographs that represent the rich flora and fauna of Breadalbane. I was amazed at how in the short time he has lived in Killin (just over a year) he has already managed to capture so much. The photographs presented here are chosen carefully to represent not only bio-diversity, but often the unconscious artistic process that underlies taking photographs which we discover when out in wi

It's quite confusing at first when you hear or read the term "cup and ring marks" to describe an art form comprising rock carvings from 4,500 years ago. I think it was lazy of art historians (and academics) to call them cup and ring marks. Why? Because it lacks imagination. Why not "sun and ring marks" instead? It would make a lot more sense. It was too easy to say "cup" and "ring" when the time came for them to be named. Furthermore, it is to blur this precious and unique ar

Morning. I am standing at the bottom of an entire massif that stretches in between me, eternally. Why have we humans separated mountain into mountains through names? We know there is only one, we know they are all connected. I am now about to climb mountain. Not far from where I am standing is a loch created over time since the last Ice Age. And beside me as I’m walking, a mixed woodland of species tangled like a labyrinth. In order to get here, I have walked through a villag

On maps today, these ruins are simply known as shielings. Without roofs, they can't be considered as bothies either. A shieling is defined as 'a mountain hut used as a shelter by shepherds', or from another perspective, 'a summer pasture in the mountains'. In our culture a 'hut' would be considered a 'man-cave'. These are the ruins of a village, however. When you encounter such a place, you can sense that is has been a village and all you can do is wonder what happened to red

This is my first post for Eternal Mountain and I've begun already this week to take a closer look into the legendary Irish hero, Fionn mac Cumhaill (leader of the group of warriors known as the Fianna Éireann) and understand his connection with Killin. Eternal Mountain is at present creating a historical comic to represent Breadalbane and Scotland as whole in celebration for Scotland's Year of Stories 2022. https://www.eternalmountaintourguide.co.uk/scotlandsyearofstories2022