science and neo-spirituality
Commonly reckoned to be at odds with one another, conventional over-reductive science and most new-age spiritualities actually fortify one another in their detachment from the earth, one of them reducing sensible nature to an object with scant room for sentience and creativity, the other projecting all creativity into a supernatural dimension beyond all bodily ken.
ritual
Just as a bear must turn over stumps searching for beetles, real humans can only live life spiritually. Birth itself was a ritual: there was not a ritual for birth, or a ritual for death, or a ritual for marriage, for death was a ritual, life a ritual, cooking a ritual, and eating were all rituals with ceremonial guidelines, all of which fed life.
immortality in the morning
The most powerful hallucinogenic drug around - DMT - affectionately referred to as “the spirit molecule,” occurs naturally in the human body at death.
speak to me
While persons brought up within literate culture often speak -about- the natural world, indigenous, oral peoples sometimes speak directly -to- that world, acknowledging certain animals, plants, and even landforms as expressive subjects with whom they might find themselves in conversation.
call on kin
Gather the strength of your lineage. Dream into your history. Our history. Dare to look at what you may fear to know, fortify yourself in understanding. In compassion, gratitude, and respect. Carve time to dive into your DNA, remember where you came from. Gather courage and soak in the deep responsibility of knowing that their time has past — your time is now.
life: interdisciplinary
is not the merging of true understanding across once separable domains of the most cohesive and beautiful experiences of wonder there is?
in each heart
When God said, ‘My hands are yours,’ I saw that I could heal any creature in this world; I saw that the divine beauty in each heart is the root of all time and space.
we literally are one
Fun fact: YOU share genes with ALL living organisms, and all but .01% amongst your fellow humans. Yes, amongst ourselves, we, human-beings are radically genetically identical.
impossible sacred
In desacralizing the world, the post/modern centralizes mankind. This anthropocentricity has material consequences. In seeing ourselves as independent, essential, whole, removed, distant, complete, sovereign and in control, we neglect the world that grants us our bodies.