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August 16, 2021

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Finding the Mother Tree

“In this in-depth interview, Dr. Suzanne Simard–the renowned scientist who discovered the “wood-wide web”– speaks about mother trees, kin recognition, and how to heal our separation from the living world.” { read more }

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Learn more about The Mother Tree Project here. { more }

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August 15, 2021

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The Quest to Understand Consciousness

“Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness — that is a marvelous fact — but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this simple question to give us a glimpse into how our brains create our sense of self.” { read more }

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Check out more from Damasio here, in this conversation on feelings and consciousness. { more }

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August 14, 2021

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Catching Sight of Yourself

“How things seem is not how things are. For most of us, most of the time, it seems as though the self is an enduring and unified entity, an essence, a unique identity: the recipient of wave-upon-wave of perceptions, and decision-maker-in-chief about what to do next. We sense, we think, we act. This is how things seem. How things are is very different. The story emerging from a rich blend of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience is that the self is not ‘that which does the perceiving’. Instead, the self is a perception too. Or rather, it is a collection of related perceptions. Experiences of the world, and of the self, are created by the brain following a common principle — a principle of ‘best guessing’, or what we might call ‘controlled hallucination’.” Neuroscientist Anil Seth shares more in this compelling piece. { read more }

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Seth says, “When we agree about our hallucinations, that’s what we call reality.” How do the above article and this statement land for you? What do they make you curious about? How might you follow up on that curiosity this week?

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August 13, 2021

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Remothering the Land

Soil and water are the beginnings of all things that sustain life. The indigenous women of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust know this from their ancestors long ago and from the call of the children yet to be born in the future. There is a sacred bond to Mother Earth that invites each of us to respect nature wherever we live. It is for this reason that the sustainable gardens at Sogorea Te’ are being maintained and used as an educational garden that shows how we can farm the land using the non-colonial methods of indigenous and black people who remained close to the land. By using regenerative farming, we may all learn how to live in harmony with the land. Together, we can find a balance with the soil, water, and air so that all creatures may live in balance with each other for a sustainable future. { read more }

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Consider what you can do in your own place on the planet to help care for the earth–buy or grow your own organic food, use the power of your vote to protect the land, or support local and international environmental organizations.

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August 12, 2021

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A Morning When Everything Fell Into Place

“As I sat at the booth waiting for my Fast Start to arrive, I was beginning to believe there was something mysterious going on. No, that’s not quite accurate. Actually, that moment in the parking lot when I opened myself to looking at the stranger when in that moment, smiling, he blessed me in that moment, something inside was brought vividly to life like a small songbird. In that moment, I knew something mysterious had happened.” { read more }

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Do you recall a day when everything seemed to fall into place? This short video set to Brother David Steindl-Rast’s simple and potent words offers more inspiration: A Grateful Day. { more }

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August 11, 2021

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The Art of Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes

“‘How we spend our days,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timelessly beautiful meditation on presence over productivity, ‘is, of course, how we spend our lives.’ And nowhere do we fail at the art of presence most miserably and most tragically than in urban life — in the city, high on the cult of productivity, where we float past each other, past the buildings and trees and the little boy in the purple pants, past life itself, cut off from the breathing of the world by iPhone earbuds and solipsism. And yet: ‘The art of seeing has to be learned,’ Marguerite Duras reverberates — and it can be learned, as cognitive scientist Alexandra Horowitz invites us to believe in her breathlessly wonderful On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes (public library) — a record of her quest to walk around a city block with eleven different ‘experts,’ from an artist to a geologist to a dog, and emerge with fresh eyes mesmerized by the previously unseen fascinations of a familiar world.” Maria Popova shares more in this in-depth exploration of Horowitz’s book. { read more }

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Take a walk in a familiar setting, with new eyes today. Notice what leaps freshly into view.

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August 10, 2021

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Rising from the Fire

“How can we reconcile the immensely destructive force of fire with its equally limitless creative potential? Forest managers light intentional blazes to clear overgrowth and begin anew the cycle of life. A fireplace becomes a hearth, offering heat, light, and survival for the homes residents. And fiery volcanic activity can obliterate what stands in its path all the while creating new land in a matter of hours and days that becomes highly fertile soil in thousands or millions of years. The element of fire–and its life-giving results in the form of heat and light–represent both a powerful metaphor and an undeniable fact of organic and spiritual transformation. Evelyn Underhill, in her classic book Mysticism, states unambiguously ‘No transmutation without fire.’ And ‘Here, as elsewhere…the self must lose to find and die to live.'” { read more }

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What are some of the experiences of fire, literal or metaphorical in your own life? Take a moment to reflect on how they have transformed you. Ask someone in your community about their own pivotal experiences of being “fire-tested.”

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