We all share connections with the same ancestors—consanguinity.
Read on to feel this, viscerally, as David Abram brings our interconnections and links with all around us vibrantly to life.
Animals: and consanguinity
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Wildness
On these index pages you'll find stories, video, images and poetry tagged with specific themes. This page is on: Wildness
Gorgeous cries for connection and wildness. Our future has an ancient heart and you can feel it beating! In poems, pictures, words, music and film.
Hearing rhythms: stochastic patterns and music medicine
Rythym, randomness and healing with, and through, our deeper interconnections. Aligning with our wider world its chaos and patterns .
Necessary wildness: a fountain of life
This beautiful video showcases Scotland’s mountainous wildness. Yet it is about more including abundance and diversity. Those are a mindset, a thinking pattern, as much being about flourishing wildlife land and seas. You-I-we thrive under such conditions.
Rainbow season: it’s raining colors!
It’s rainbow season in the north. The rains are washing the skies, crystal clarity emerges from deluges. That does not mean the wildness and storms are passed. Read on as Emily Dickinson explains…
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Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
Grace, magic and miracles: while the nights are getting longer
When we’re pushed to the edge and surrounded by disequilibrium are there places of grace?
Here are some resources and connections, links to the regular changes around us, for sources of magic and miracles.
Phosphorescence: life in the middle of dark
On awe, wonder and things that sustain you when the world goes dark. Phosphorescence. Now there’s a word to lift your heart to.
Genius from light within.
Global sunsets: the kosmos from my floor
My world has become both small and expansive. It’s contracted to a room with a view of the kosmos. Yet the paradox is it does not feel small.
There is this time: enwoombed
There is this time of the day.
And a particular time of the year
When the animals have been fed
and they are lying in hairy heaps…
Sunlight: and clouds
Seeing in and between the clouds
Global sunsets II: and a sunrise
When near the end of day, life has drained, in the dusk, explore your arrival in the new dawn. Global sunsets and a sunrise.
Global sunsets: reach of new colors
All the time we are remaking and renewing. In ourselves and the world every day.
Global sunsets and colors to remake and renew by.
Longing: Moonrise, moonset, sunrise and sunset
Go to the limits of your longing. Embody these sun and moon rises and sets. Let them flare up like a flame and make big shadows to move in!
Chalanais
Settle down in the sea of destruction,
Without harm and without fear;
Rise up on the peaceful arc,
As a young queen in bloom.
Sunset and sunrise at Chalanais through the solstice.
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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