Stuart Evans

We have tried to relate to the world around us through only the left side of our brain, and we are clearly failing. If we are to re-establish a viable relationship, we will need to rediscover the wisdom of these other cultures who knew that their relationship to the land and to the natural world required the whole of their being.

These future-making questions may not have solid answers, but we have responsibility to make intelligent guesses. Our role as a species is not just to inhabit the world but to reconstitute and reimagine it.

Worlds are persistent places where the imaginal meets the real. The Virtual is the world’s edge, its surface.

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... See more

Do we see ourselves as lone warriors, out there in hostile territories to secure our own advantages? Or as embedded parts of communities, or of specific ecosystems, or nature as a whole?