Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful, magical conversation with you and David! It’s perfect for today, and got my day started off with exactly the perspective and energy I needed. Being, you know, that today is so fraught, like, as so many memes have said over the past few days, we have been waiting for the “life or death” prognosis. Regardless of what happens, we have magic and I know these times, as anxiety-ridden (for me anyway) as they are, also somehow stimulate the nerve endings and kind of force me to remain open to other voices, other vibrations, the real reality within which we live. I wanted to find a “quote” here, to share and as I kept reading the whole piece is one magnificent “quote”. That there are so many increasingly sensitive people now, not only recognizing their “neurodivergence” but claiming it. And it seems to me that the world we inhabit now, the chemicals and losses and how these are literally changing our DNA now and for the future, it feels necessary somehow. Part of evolution. We’re on a certain trajectory . . . those of us who can engage with the more than human voices and energies . . . are essential.
David’s work has had a huge impact on my life and work since I first met him in the 1980s. I remember seeing him performing his magic while talking with someone on the porch at the main building at Omega. I had written to him but had not met him, and it seemed so purposeful, the meeting. And then his amazing work with the All Species committee at the Bioregional Congress, which led to one of the most magical and important experiences I have had in my life, that I have carried with me and shared over and over again as “proof” that indeed it is possible, and necessary, to include ALL voices in our human deliberations. . . . So thank you (and David) for putting this out there today as a reminder, to me anyway, that Magic is where it’s at. 💖
I've been a big fan of David Abram for years (Spell of the Sensuous & Becoming Animal). On Samhain I stumbled on your video interview with him from 2022 (https://www.facebook.com/share/v/186ViY1ta9/). And now it appeared on your substack. Love the way the neural network of the universe brings me what I need. A bow to synchronicity.
As someone who is AuDHD (autistic + ADHD), the end of this really resonates with me. Even when David was talking about the forest folks who can't handle center village I thought, "Hey, where can I get one of these forest keeping gigs"? Lovely conversation, thanks for sharing! 🩷🩷
This is just the most profoundly beautiful, life-giving, necessary, expansive conversation. I'm savouring every last part of it as it speaks to all my depths and entanglements; the parts of me I'm unfolding into, the grief of those parts realising what they ought to have been for a whole lifetime, not just belatedly. Thank you. 🙏🏼💚
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful, magical conversation with you and David! It’s perfect for today, and got my day started off with exactly the perspective and energy I needed. Being, you know, that today is so fraught, like, as so many memes have said over the past few days, we have been waiting for the “life or death” prognosis. Regardless of what happens, we have magic and I know these times, as anxiety-ridden (for me anyway) as they are, also somehow stimulate the nerve endings and kind of force me to remain open to other voices, other vibrations, the real reality within which we live. I wanted to find a “quote” here, to share and as I kept reading the whole piece is one magnificent “quote”. That there are so many increasingly sensitive people now, not only recognizing their “neurodivergence” but claiming it. And it seems to me that the world we inhabit now, the chemicals and losses and how these are literally changing our DNA now and for the future, it feels necessary somehow. Part of evolution. We’re on a certain trajectory . . . those of us who can engage with the more than human voices and energies . . . are essential.
David’s work has had a huge impact on my life and work since I first met him in the 1980s. I remember seeing him performing his magic while talking with someone on the porch at the main building at Omega. I had written to him but had not met him, and it seemed so purposeful, the meeting. And then his amazing work with the All Species committee at the Bioregional Congress, which led to one of the most magical and important experiences I have had in my life, that I have carried with me and shared over and over again as “proof” that indeed it is possible, and necessary, to include ALL voices in our human deliberations. . . . So thank you (and David) for putting this out there today as a reminder, to me anyway, that Magic is where it’s at. 💖
I've been a big fan of David Abram for years (Spell of the Sensuous & Becoming Animal). On Samhain I stumbled on your video interview with him from 2022 (https://www.facebook.com/share/v/186ViY1ta9/). And now it appeared on your substack. Love the way the neural network of the universe brings me what I need. A bow to synchronicity.
As someone who is AuDHD (autistic + ADHD), the end of this really resonates with me. Even when David was talking about the forest folks who can't handle center village I thought, "Hey, where can I get one of these forest keeping gigs"? Lovely conversation, thanks for sharing! 🩷🩷
This is just the most profoundly beautiful, life-giving, necessary, expansive conversation. I'm savouring every last part of it as it speaks to all my depths and entanglements; the parts of me I'm unfolding into, the grief of those parts realising what they ought to have been for a whole lifetime, not just belatedly. Thank you. 🙏🏼💚
Ahhhhhhhh this speaks to me so deeply today, thank you! Like yesyesyesyes I get this! 🙏🏼🌱