Re-membering our connection with the rest of nature
Why it's important
Re-membering our connection with the rest of nature
Think about rituals each season to celebrate the arrival of spring or the harvest, think about rituals of gratitude and abundance each day to remember where our food came from or who was involved in cultivating the earth.
Ecological belonging is living in an ongoing interconnected relationship with ourselves, each other and our broader natural world... See more
Ecological belonging is living in an ongoing interconnected relationship with ourselves, each other and our broader natural world... See more
Ecological Belonging
we have to move away from the intellectual towards the experiential.
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Ecological Belonging is an emerging idea centered on developing a new narrative around how we connect ourselves to the world.
We start with a simple question: “ How do we live? ”
We are inviting people to remember , renew and reweave the stories, rituals and practices that root us in a deep interconnectedness between ourselves, our communities, our ... See more
We start with a simple question: “ How do we live? ”
We are inviting people to remember , renew and reweave the stories, rituals and practices that root us in a deep interconnectedness between ourselves, our communities, our ... See more
Ecological Belonging
Gregory Bateson saw the “false reification of the self” — the idea of a separate self rather than one emerging out of and sustained by relationships — as a root-cause of our “planetary ecological crises”. He argued:
... See moreWe have imagined that we are a unit of survival and we have to see to our own survival, and we imagine that the unit of survival is the
If the future generations don’t care or aren’t interested in the rest of nature, if they aren’t taught about ecology and that we only eat and breathe because of plants, why would they bother with conservation or connection? If they haven’t felt the soothing calm of a walk in the woods or heard the song of a nightingale, what will they miss, through
... See moreLucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
for me, a practice in spiritual ecology is not just a practice in spiritually relating to an ecology, or whatever you want to describe it as. It’s a way of life in which you are learning how to be in relationship from the truest part of yourself, and broadening that—from the space where we have been focused on that reality in spiritual forms, for a... See more
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Small actions, like learning about the ecological roles of species (such as bats or wolves), spending mindful time in nature, or exploring Indigenous perspectives, can help build this deeper philosophical connection. These inner shifts ripple outward, influencing how we view ourselves not as masters of the natural world, but as stewards and custodi... See more
Jonathan Aronson • Restoring Respect for Nature: How Mindset Shifts Can Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
‘nature-deficit disorder’ to refer to the impact of a lack of connection with nature on people’s health. ‘It describes the human costs of alienation from nature, among them: diminished use of the senses, attention difficulties, and higher rates of physical and emotional illnesses,’
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
For Bateson, experiencing our own relational existence — the way we continuously bring forth the world and ourselves through relationships — could help us “unify and thereby sanctify the total natural world, of which we are” (Nora Bateson, 2010).
In Daniel Christian Wahl (2017)