24/11/2025
Dear [Name/Team],
I hope you’re well.
I’m getting in touch because I’ve discovered that my personal Mac has been enrolled into HMR London’s device management system, and is currently showing as supervised and managed by your organisation.
I just wanted to clarify that this is my own laptop, which I’ve owned for several years, and I haven’t knowingly given permission for it to be enrolled in Around 4,000 BC, human culture shifted in ways that reshaped our relationship with the world. Cities were rising, societies were stratifying, and new temple-centred religions were emerging-placing Spirit in the sky and power in the hands of the few.
As these “sky-oriented” traditions grew, the sacred was gradually lifted upward.
What had once been found in riverbanks, animals, stones, trees, and the turning seasons was now mediated through hierarchy, ritual specialists, and distant deities.
The old, immediate reciprocity with the land didn’t disappear overnight, but something in us began to drift. We lost some of the daily intimacy with the more-than-human world that earlier cultures had woven into every moment of life.
Yet that ancient knowing never vanished.
It stirs when we stand still within a forest,
when we feel the pull of mountains or the comfort of fire, when something deep in the body remembers that meaning isn’t granted from above, but rises from relationship, with place, with community, with the Earth itself.
We are living in a time of remembering.
Not a romanticised return to the past,
but a return to connection. To reciprocity, presence, and the quiet intelligence woven through the living world.
The old stories of separation are loosening. And something in us is ready to come home again.