Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia: 1 (Berlin Technologie Hub Eco pack)

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Building on the revolutionary discoveries of James Lovelock's Gaia Theory, Stephan goes one step further and explores opportunities to heal our relationship with the Earth through the new discipline of holistic science. Find a large pandemic-safe community garden (El Jardin del Paraiso) that will open its doors to you. A documentary film written and presented by Dr Stephan Harding, renowned ecologist and colleague of James Lovelock. Marina ‘Heron’ Tsaplina is a Russian-born, NYC-based eco-artist and disability culture activist who forms participatory poetic enchantments through puppetry performance, site-specific installations and, upon occasion, writing. The Resurgence Trust is a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (5821436) and a charity registered in England and Wales (1120414).

This embrace of not knowing and commitment to namelessness was described by disabled sound artist and geographer of ecocide AM Kanngieser as a “dismantling of knowledge as possession. One artist, Ernesto Pujol, took up a hermetic life of poverty and celibacy in a small Trappist monastery in South Carolina after finishing art school – until he left four years later to begin a different life as an artist in New York City. Read all Animate Earth is an Angel TV production in association with GKC films and S4C and written by Dr Stephan Harding, world-renowned ecologist and colleague of James Lovelock. An exciting exploration into how Gaian science can help us to develop a sense of connectedness with the 'more-than-human' world. While I agree, I thought that Harding's approach might not be off-putting to Christians and other religions.

Especially if their art is oriented towards benefiting others, they are often pegged as community activists rather than being granted status as ‘real’ artists. Since I was small, I liked to think that everything has its soul and its place in the world, not only moving beings like human, animals but also plants, rocks, soil. For some it happens spontaneously, in a quiet natural place where nature speaks to us and we experience our kinship with her. In chapter nine he defends the value biodiversity on utilitarian grounds, but says that, ultimately, “we need…to recover the ancient view of Gaia, as a fully integrated, living, being consisting of all her lifeforms, air, rocks, oceans, lakes, and rivers, if we are able to hold the latest, and possibly greatest, mass extinction. Ever since the industrial revolution and the maturation of of our scientific, materialistic mindset, we have distanced ourselves from the Earth.

In this sense, the book is a contemporary attempt to rediscover anima mundi (the soul of the world) through Gaian science, whilst assuming no prior knowledge of science. Learn how the field of science is finally recognizing the Earth as one complex, life-sustaining system. And so it was perfectly terrible timing that I was reading this just as Australia has scrapped its carbon tax. Later, when I was alone, applying silk to the puppet’s face resting on the ground, my mind whispered, Are these imprints of numerous hands on the silk too loud? The ecological crisis demands a new harmonious relationship between humanity and nature embodied in a world view in which we are part of rather than apart from nature.As the slow burning of an ancient, dreaming forest, whose wakefulness to me feels like a slumber, for I did not quite know how to be awake to ki. Let me say right away that Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art does not precisely address these questions.

When I sawed reeds at two in the morning under moonlight, the rhythmic sound of saw on reed piercing the quiet night, I whispered, This is not a warning for your bodymind, even as the sound pulled my own gut taut. Nothing could have prepared me to feel the dissonance of this enchanted and violated forest, on the lands of the Salish and Kootenai people. I now refer to my Type 1 diabetes as that-which-is-named, not as a rejection of medical treatment (without insulin, I die) but as a refusal of the singular authority of how biomedicine imagines life. Animate Earth is an Angel TV production in association with GKC films and S4C and written by Dr Stephan Harding, world-renowned ecologist and colleague of James Lovelock. His monastic training, however, had carved away his ego-driven self, so he chose to begin his artistic work with homeless men in a homeless shelter, where he could function with humility and true social immersion.I wonder if the forest is always in a state of such deep body consciousness, an expansive awareness that moves between life, transformation, and death, one that I might imaginatively attempt to feel: the shifting sensations of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, minerals, transforming, moving through root and capillary networks. Stephan replaces the cold, objectifying language of science with a way of speaking of our planet as a sentient, living being rather than as a dead, inert mechanism. Calendar arrived safely in plastic-free packaging - which I've not seen before with a calendar, so kudos for that. You may be surprised to hear how the art of puppetry animation is a practice of deep imaginative embodied listening. It had begun demanding certainty and clarity of knowing, which led me to doubt my own embodied listening.

In the chapter on the fungi kingdom, Harding speculates how the network of mycylea may resemble the animal brain --- intelligent, a view I've also written about in my blog entry, The Secret Life of Fungi. Harding’s description of his own transformation from a conventional scientist to one who balances the traditional approach with a more holistic, intuitive view. Wonder how on earth you are going to get all of this to Montana while attaching tiny yellow crescent moons to the tips of the purple silk camas, guided by the adept hands of a baker. Some years later, after one of my performances about the reincarnating eugenics impulse in our culture and in ourselves, I bumped into an audience member on the street.He has worked alongside many of the world's leading experts on ecological thought and action, including James Lovelock, with whom he has collaborated for many years on the development of Gaian thinking. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).