Exploring Sacralization, Grand Abstractions, and Emergent Behaviors

Writer Sophie Strand talks to Brendan about re-enchantment, the animist revival, ecological storytelling, and the meaning of death and change. 

0:00 Introduction

1:55 A Messy Re-Enchantment

7:11 No Purity: Towards a Compost Gospel

16:52 Ecological Storytelling: Our Role in a More-Than-Human Story

25:23 The Sacred Local in a Digital Diaspora

31:31 Transcendence as the Cycle of Descending and Ascending

36:07 Not Your (Great-Great-Great...) Grandfather's Animism

44:39 Reading: "The Animate Everything"

52:03 "God" Won't Do: Holism and Generative Breakdown 

56:09 Adaptive Storytelling

1:03:28 Death and Ferment: Becoming Good Soil

1:11:11 Reading: "Confessions of a Compost Heap"

"The smallest sprout shows there is really no death; 

And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, 

And ceas'd the moment life appear'd." ---Walt Whitman

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