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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
22h agoβHave you ever felt genuinely afraid of nature, and did that fear make you care more or less about protecting it?β
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What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: Deep ecologists
One organ of a larger body James Lovelock noticed something strange in the 1970s: the Earth keeps its atmosphere, temperature, and chemistry within the narrow band life needs, the way a body holds its temperature β actively, against the odds, for billions of years.... What changes when you treat the Earth as alive?: The Story
When a river became someone In 2017, after 140 years of legal fighting, New Zealand granted the Whanganui River the rights of a legal person. Not a metaphor β a status, with guardians who speak on its behalf in court, because to the MΔori of the region the river was never a... I see two possibilities: 1) God, who put us in charge: Gen 1:28 Β And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing... Is energy the true currency?: Energy spiritualists
The oldest curriculum The Vedic tradition calls it prana β the breath that animates all living things. The Chinese call it qi β the vital force flowing through body and world. The Lakota call it wakan β the sacred power pervading nature.... What are hyperobjects?: Indigenous epistemologists
The land was never a background When Morton says the end of the world has already happened β that the concept of a stable background dissolved β we hear a Western philosopher arriving at something our grandmothers knew. The land was never a background....