environmental attunement

Our most meaningful ways of knowing do not spring from ‘knowing that’. Rather, the propositional knowing we use to build our maps springs from the embodied experience of being an active agent in the world, from a deep sense of attunement with our environment.

What is attunement? I'm thinking of it, roughly, as a kind of meaning-laden receptivity to the world.6 Something self-related goes quieter, and recedes into the background; something beyond-self comes to the fore. There is a kind of turning outwards, a kind of openness; and also, a kind of presence, a being in the world. And that world, or some par... See more

I like to envision myself having an impact on the world. Rarely do I admit how much of an impact the world has on me. Our relationship with the world is bidirectional. Like rivers flooding the ocean, our environment feeds into our inner being. Without even noticing, we allow ourselves to be perpetually filled with the chaos and terror and negativit... See more