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Re/searching the Sacred | REC 2.0 210

• we've learned you know it's so easy in cultures that want you to forget to just

Excerpt - Toward Ecological Storytelling with SOPHIE STRAND 134

• that is an interesting quote but in a culture where implement information and connectivity is reproduced and

Re/Turning to the Sacred | Re-imagining Education Micro Conference 129

• what's sacred is escaping what the contemporary culture thoughts are and moving into your independent thought and
• what he calls sacred are things that inside his culture were impure a woman
• inescapability of this culture that we pretend we can disappear the waste but we can't it'll
• also because i don't know any better way to shapeshift a culture with anything like the alacrity or speed
• phrase right now shape-shifting the culture i think i think that is possibly the thing that keeps me up
• interpreted by chirographic textual culture as being a way of thinking to unlike things but in paratactical oral
• unlike things but in paratactical oral culture it's actual connective tissue not metaphorical connective tissue when
• have to complicate how textual culture has created this fictional idea of what
• yeah we gate out the aliveness of the world um and that in earlier cultures we were
• is is is the the practice of rejuvenating oral culture um
• um not to the ex to the you know exclusion of written culture i love books and i'm a writer i love to read uh
• um face to face replenishing the culture of face to face and face to place

The Mycelium Explored: Merlin Sheldrake and Sophie Strand 128

• real ethos and richness of the influence of fungi and mycelium on our culture and history and i thought that it'd be great
• mythologist i've been really interested in syncretic fusions of cultures and mythologies that have digest each other
• mythological um lens and think about how cultures will you know reflux into each other and
• know ideal forms that are associated with human culture and mythologies i mean i really deeply believe that like
• relationship into culpability within a very complicated culture well i think if you just follow the i
• effect but for the very minerals that you know we can only build culture very practically materially through the
• anything i mean i think poisons don't even exist in a lot of cultures it's more pharmacon it's like it's contextual
• you understand how much you can take and in this culture we will take as much as we can of everything so of course you
• bronze age like the end of these nature reverent partnership cultures where you honestly never see heroic individuals in
• and that shifts into a more greek heroic culture where you have um a split in platonism actually in
• mythological narratives that these these care that these cultures are trying to figure out their psychological trauma in
• unfortunately a trauma response over time becomes culture and becomes non-adapted to changing circumstances so
• individuals and as a species and as different cultures is to do with this process of defamiliarizing um in the
• exchanging thoughts about into our culture you know what what is the advice we might give to others who are anxious
• not um started by adding a preconceived culture of microbes um and to be led by the ministry of it

The Rewilding Podcast Episode 28: Rewilding Myth w/ Sophie Strand 122

• stories and practices of regenerative egalitarian place-based cultures there is still time to reconnect with
• using analogous organic systems to explore culture and mythology particularly that of michael ryzei she
• connections about the relationship between humans culture and nature when i read her writing i feel a kind of
• here had so many taboos it was um you know a huge part of their culture was the number of taboos that they had but
• about learning the myths or or being in the culture of the people that tell them is that if you
• anyway including including the ones that um inform our entire culture yeah i mean on
• like who is dionysus what culture is he from and like why and this is a
• in terms of greek mythology he actually predates greek culture and
• iteration here like what would that be in our culture now well i mean
• um that that was still such an important part of their culture so that a lot of that was coming out in these video games
• quiet and it's it's problematic in our culture that we only give this one very bad
• um i've been thinking about our culture like a gut
• a gut that's been like you know our whole culture is antibiotic our whole conservation approach is antibiotic how
• excited that's my problem oh yeah the guy the gut biome so our culture is kind of like this gut that's been subjected
• of us as being an incredibly death-obsessed culture who never actually want to integrate death but we
• which and we also live in the crazy culture so depression perhaps is like the most accurate response yeah right
• they do seem to inflect our behaviors but culture also inflects our behaviors and it's the meeting of the two it's the
• from different societies about taboos and about how so many cultures and don't eat certain things like they have rules
• growth across the board and i think it's been something that all human cultures have been grappling with for a really
• know well white people don't have culture or whatever like all these things that's not really true
• and that's that's how that's how so many cultures believed and like mythic figures were not individuals it was like
• it or fetishize it super weird it is a weird thing how how cultures get um

Spark Series: Sophie Strand 121

• partnered people welcome to people of all colors cultures abilities sexual expression educational backgrounds
• ignore indigenous epistemologies and the truth is that across cultures it's considered deeply important to at least
• monks you know i was raised in an intellectual culture where you know interfaith communities were coming
• my early memories are being an adult culture um

Sophie Strand & Andreas Weber: Risking New Shapes, Queering Biology, Becoming Good Soil 88

• and and so much is um is about this in our culture is about this um first you look after yourself and you have to
• add that many um many cultures in human history and still on on earth
• you can't you can't um you can put cultures you need to look at every culture but but you find many
• you can put cultures you need to look at every culture but but you find many cultures who who are much more um like
• every culture but but you find many cultures who who are much more um like um life itself and its flexibility and
• um life itself and its flexibility and um and our culture unfortunately has become fixated with these either or
• um it's it's to my eyes really foundational through the culture where we are speaking from
• and i think we really to understand our culture we need to know that we're living in a in full trauma in a
• living in a in full trauma in a traumatic culture like like it's it's really really bad and and normally we
• and um and i think it's it's we our culture doesn't take this into account we in the
• am so much in love with um indigenous cultures traditional cultures because in in some many respects they they just do
• authorship but the truth is that for most of human culture storytelling knowledge was oral relational and it
• know actually traditional cultures never do this because we we we're in service of life

SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312 84

• intelligence earth doesn't know best our cultures insist we know best and we must progress
• to look at things in our body that the culture problematizes as actually making good soil for other stories and other
• i think you're saying quote we live in a culture that's very inside of chronological time and a very simplistic
• to grow something and i think that's how many indigenous cultures think how am i making myself a good ancestor
• and to imagine living in a culture that looks at death as the cycle of life and something that
• to do with with big gestures that show up within you know human culture it was that i'm not the main character i was
• always think we own everything including our culture but we can see that you know sessile communities and civilizations
• saviorism or the purity culture or the perfectionist white supremacist culture where everything has
• culture or the perfectionist white supremacist culture where everything has to fit into this other mythology of how
• always questioning it being like why am i consenting to this culture or the civilization that i don't like that i
• what it looks like to consent to these mythologies of our dominant culture and how we rise up and i don't want to even
• that you know narratives travel and are more easily remembered in oral cultures than lists lists actually don't exist
• from its time period and then extrapolated to many different cultures and many different climates and
• galilee spoken in aramaic in an oral culture and you know the romans come in and uproot that and then turn it into
• fossil um fuel dependent culture today so it's that interruption that is informing our
• that interruption that is informing our extractive capitalistic culture i want you to go on with this and
• pressure treated wood houses wrapped in plastic so much of our culture is fighting decay even a human lifespan i
• mean it's like we we our mythologies are cultures are are i'm i'm my i wish you could see my
• making a clawing motion because i feel like this culture is clawing and desperate to keep us from composting
• or how how do i say this um how our culture and especially liberalism i believe has separated us
• death trap or the ecocidal feeding the ecocidal culture even if we think that it's something that's saving us from it
• educate ourselves and become wise not in the ways that our culture values so much but in these
• um uninteresting by the dominant culture that i definitely grew up under so yeah there's
• ecstatic dancing experiences have been incredibly cohesive to cultures for a long time and when they start to become
• the areas i really study closely is the movement from oral culture to alphabetic chirographic culture so from you know
• movement from oral culture to alphabetic chirographic culture so from you know all of your knowledge being sustained in
• phenomenon and something that was very interesting to me is in oral cultures that still exist today and those that we
• know the english language is a colonial language it's gone into other cultures and taken their words that have no
• um through many different generations and languages and cultures but if we actually go back to the aramaic to the
• turn the land into profit-making mono culture actually um so that you know your complicated

Ep.74: Sophie Strand on Mycorrhizal Myths, Magic, and Golden Roses 52

• in books well i i think that written culture has existed for a relatively short period of
• course they're not nourishing to other cultures because they weren't made to suit those you know specific assemblages
• operating in science in politics and culture like and in fact they're more insidious when we call them by different
• think that's common across many different cultures like you know the vegetalistas in south america and even
• give give uh contemporary culture you know industrial civilization meaning
• it's very informed by the way that indigenous cultures use myth which is it's it's oral it's teaching you about
• like for some you know myth often in our contemporary culture just means like something that's wrong something that's

Sophie Strand: Rewilding and Retelling 22

• conflate story of conflict this reductionism reflects a culture that inflates aggression and competition
• been acquired through a colonial practice of going into cultures taking their words without any backing behind
• pretend like it's something that um our cultures know how to do or how to hold
• him first mentioned in linear b on crete so in minoan bronze age culture which was partnership based most of the arts