Religion, for thousands of years, has used key scripts, key parcels of language and code to imprison, influence, and sway the actions and behaviour of generations of humans, and to enlock within words, people’s relationship with all of creation, spirit, soul, and self.

In much of our multiplicity of new-age spirituality, it goes on. Where there should be a greater ensoulment, ensoilment, vivification, electrification, musicality of language, there is instead dogma, ideology, the common use of spiritual language and pop psychology vernacular as the main threshold to meeting one another and the world.

While we have learnt to meet anima and soul in silent mediation or on the dance floor, when it comes to how our tongues dance with the breath of life, and touch one another as medicine, as holy fire, as prayer.

R(E)volutionary medicine aims to change this, to bring a poet’s pen and an experimental theologian’s lens to