Ethical Rewilding Philosophy
The earth is a living entity with 5 interconnected body systems: hydropshere (everything water), pedosphere (thin layer of soil), geo/lithospehre (from the core to the crust), atmosphere (from crust to space), and the biosphere (everything living). There is a dynamic equilibrium of balance as these systems continually shift and change throughout geologic time. As species evolve, the question arises: what is our species' role? It appears to me that our role is deeply observe, study, listen, smell, feel the complex and dynamic interweavings of the natural world and learn how to join as a graceful, conscious member.
Rewilding is the process of deconditioning, or better yet decolonizing, ourselves from the domestic dependency we have developed in modern Western civilization which is based on exploitative practices of land, people, traditions, and the earth community itself. While this process of rewilding involves many levels of inner and outer landscape work (intellectual, economic, emotional, psychological, social, energetic...) the effects are profound in how those around someone engaged in this process are affected synergistically. Once you have individuals & groups of people involved in this work meet up to collaborate, the symbiotic potential for evolution is infinite. Just as we have reached several tipping points which exceed earth's capacity to easily integrate all that is occurring in her body systems, so too on the other side are there underground networks of healers and activists acting as feedback mechanisms to trails of where our species has gone astray. Joining many of the microbes which turn pollution into neutral molecules or even into food for the web, we rewilders are composting our civilization's waste for fertile soil which is needed more than ever in this time of carbon negligence.
While I am deeply interested and involved in all of these levels of the rewilding process (i.e returning to primal selfhood), this particular trajectory focuses on the physical aspects of rewilding involving Gaia. I am deeply devoted to the critical importance of protecting wildlife corridor, expanding & conserving pollinator habitat, reexamining our relationship with opportunist dispersers (known by some as 'invasives') in their phytoremediating role in our damaged ecosystems and immune systems, planting & maintaining riparian buffers which allow rivers stretch space to flow naturally, and mycofiltration which fungi can do of damaged ecosystems.
There are infinite alchemical solutions of how our anthrosphere can fit into the other sphere but it requires that we pause to really study, observe, and ethically experiment with how to clean up the areas of our earth that are polluted, protect and expand pristine habitats, and develop careful lifestyle practices that will support earth's regenerative primordial being.
Much of what I practice, live, teach, research, and dream about involves this on many levels. I am always looking for collaborators, fellow researchers, and partners in this work as well as schools, institutions, businesses, and networks to infiltrate with this web weaving medicine work.
Rewilding is the process of deconditioning, or better yet decolonizing, ourselves from the domestic dependency we have developed in modern Western civilization which is based on exploitative practices of land, people, traditions, and the earth community itself. While this process of rewilding involves many levels of inner and outer landscape work (intellectual, economic, emotional, psychological, social, energetic...) the effects are profound in how those around someone engaged in this process are affected synergistically. Once you have individuals & groups of people involved in this work meet up to collaborate, the symbiotic potential for evolution is infinite. Just as we have reached several tipping points which exceed earth's capacity to easily integrate all that is occurring in her body systems, so too on the other side are there underground networks of healers and activists acting as feedback mechanisms to trails of where our species has gone astray. Joining many of the microbes which turn pollution into neutral molecules or even into food for the web, we rewilders are composting our civilization's waste for fertile soil which is needed more than ever in this time of carbon negligence.
While I am deeply interested and involved in all of these levels of the rewilding process (i.e returning to primal selfhood), this particular trajectory focuses on the physical aspects of rewilding involving Gaia. I am deeply devoted to the critical importance of protecting wildlife corridor, expanding & conserving pollinator habitat, reexamining our relationship with opportunist dispersers (known by some as 'invasives') in their phytoremediating role in our damaged ecosystems and immune systems, planting & maintaining riparian buffers which allow rivers stretch space to flow naturally, and mycofiltration which fungi can do of damaged ecosystems.
There are infinite alchemical solutions of how our anthrosphere can fit into the other sphere but it requires that we pause to really study, observe, and ethically experiment with how to clean up the areas of our earth that are polluted, protect and expand pristine habitats, and develop careful lifestyle practices that will support earth's regenerative primordial being.
Much of what I practice, live, teach, research, and dream about involves this on many levels. I am always looking for collaborators, fellow researchers, and partners in this work as well as schools, institutions, businesses, and networks to infiltrate with this web weaving medicine work.
