Learning How Land Speaks explore the idea & experience of the world as alive; not just alive, the world is sentient & speaks to us, if only we will attend and listen. Posts are curated from a series of co-operative inquiries with Human and River persons
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I have been trying to think through the question Are There Elves and Fairies Down by River? I hold in mind Eleanor Robbins’, who urges us to see that the challenges of the present time call for ‘our deepest weirdness and our highest intellectual rigour’.
This week I read Sadie Rittman’s paper The Cosmopolitics of Elves, Fairies, and Other Hidden Beings. My younger and more narrowly rational self would have poo-pooed the suggestion that hidden beings are anything other than a silly fantasy which have no significance to our real experience. But today, I am very taken with the idea; I copied the article to several colleagues; I saw how the ‘reality’…
With guest writer Simonetta Taylor
I walk to the old stone bridge over the River Frome and stand for a moment looking over the parapet, arrested by the rippling sound of water running under the arches. It is as if the water asks, “Where have you been?” As I hear this, I feel myself relax, quite spontaneously. Whatever reasons, for better or worse, that brought me here today, now I am here.
with guest contributor Helen Sieroda
On watching River flow
Four of us, members of a larger panpsychic inquiry group that has been engaged in inquiry with Rivers for six years, continue to meet regularly to share experiences.
About a dozen of us met at the bridge over the Frome at Freshford for the We Are Avon Spring Equinox ceremony.
with guest contributor Jaq Kurio
Four of us – Dave, David, Luisa, and myself – have maintained a monthly practice of meeting to share our encounters with River.
