Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration 365) Sophie Strand: Rewilding myths and storytelling
Jul 19, 2022
Sophie Strand, a writer intertwining spirituality, storytelling, and ecology, shares her unique insights throughout the discussion. She explores how the shift from oral to written cultures has distorted our relational understanding of nature. Sophie delves into the fascinating world of mycorrhizal networks, comparing myths to fungal networks that nurture connection. She champions the idea of rewilding masculinity through biodiversity and emphasizes the importance of place-based storytelling over superficial activism. Her reflections invite a deeper connection to both nature and community.
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Wilderness Childhood Shaped Sensory Awareness
- Sophie Strand recounts growing up in wilderness, rehabilitating animals, and developing deep sensory awareness.
- She links this childhood and later illness to an intimate, mycelial way of sensing ecosystems.
Writing Shifted Knowledge From Relational To Object
- The shift from oral to written culture transformed relational knowledge into objectified knowledge.
- Writing enabled linear, reductionist thinking and made knowledge appear as static objects rather than living relationships.
Myths Are Mycelial And Place-Specific
- Myths function like mycelium: underground networks inform above-ground fruiting figures adapted to place.
- Myths teach place-specific ecological practices and cannot be universalized without loss of ecological wisdom.