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Metamodern Spirituality | The Animate Everything (w/ Sophie Strand) 6,362

• focuses on the intersection of spirituality and ecology her writings which burst with keatsian
• becoming ossified when you deracinate myths from their ecology and you try and disseminate them over wide groups of
• make do to salvage so salvage what we can to use these rubble ecologies and create complicated
• of you know cybernetics and and network ecologies and all these things right um and yet as even before it was out of my
• reductionist viewpoint as to the detriment of an ecology of practices as isabel stankers argues for which is you
• important to take some of these myths to reroute them and their real ecology take someone like jesus who's been
• all of that is sort of part of a broader ecology rather than just privileging one direction over the other

Myth, Mycelium, and Rewilding Masculinities 1,416

• intersection of spirituality and ecology our first book of aces the flooring
• spirituality and ecology so as a first question how did this came
• what brought you there in that first touching point spirituality and ecology you mean or myth and masculinity
• you mean or myth and masculinity spirituality and ecology um well i was raised by parents who um
• i i don't think i've ever experienced spirituality and ecology as being separate and the real disjunction has
• and writing this book and also really immersing myself in the ecology of a galilee and realizing that jesus was a
• who were trying to make something work for a specific moment a specific ecology and the problem is when we enter into
• um yeah i really look to ecology to problematize this hegemonic idea of
• specifically situated to this to the ecologies and the social situations in the cities they arrive in
• how do we root those stories into ecology and it seems to me that interesting
• need to do it we need to reverse the process to look at ecology at mycelium at the way nature works interact
• and so they are connected they are deeply rooted in ecology basically just by being there because that's how they
• being created can you talk about that routing of the stories into ecologies and what does it mean for you because i
• is fascinating uh how do we root those stories into ecology and is this a reverse process to there
• and can we look at them in the actual ecology of galilee this was a galilean peasant whose stories were very
• all of the nastiness there there's taking your own ecology outside jesus teaches us how to be local he says
• teaches us how to be local he says you can learn about galilean ecology but the best thing for you to do is to
• deracinated realm and rooting it back in its original ecology but then we're learning from that rerouted myth how to
• is it something that in the myth and the story and in ecology relating to our ecology called collapse
• story and in ecology relating to our ecology called collapse or associated collapse can we see that
• it's just like is this the system we're in is this the ecology of being human beings on these planets
• so what's the role of ecology or how can myth let's bring it back to myth how can
• each other so we can reconnect that broader ecology that's around us
• that's a great myth that teaches us about ecology which is you have to practice these different more than human
• like this imperative to basically bring ecology myth and basically that's my question what is
• the steps how do we do that how do we bring myth and ecology into it i think we have to realize that we don't

UWP interviews 002 with Sophie Strand June 2021 1,074

• offered me the synopsis for my book which is ecology is courtship masculinity is being like a an erotic
• sensual that it was the smells the flowers the ecology it was a specific
• stories and myths from their ecology and so they don't make any sexualize them
• book yeah um and her idea of rebel ecologies i think and salvaging like

Sophie Strand: Myth & Mycelium 679

• belong to us as individuals but advances in everything from forest ecology to microbiology biology show us that we are
• collaboration as forest ecology has developed we see that it is this web of collaboration
• themselves into your web of kin becoming a map of your ecology of relationships fungi are maps of ecosystems and myths
• mycelia so our myths the above ground manifestation of specific ecologies myths or momentary eruptions of beings
• to fit the specific needs of a situated ecology every mushroom of dionysus is different perhaps then it is more
• enrique salmon's concept of resilience ecology adaptogens improve a body's ability to

EP 227, Sophie Strand: Mushrooms and Mind 513

• new york who focuses on the intersection of spirituality storytelling and ecology her first book of essays the flowering
• into into the body and into a situated ecology and so it seems to me in college that michael mycorrhizal systems were
• i'm talking about gnosticism as you know narcissism is an ecology of practices and i think that there's been a modern
• and you describe dancing with your ecology yeah um
• you know i'm a person who writes about ecology and environmentalism but i don't ever want to advocate for a kind of
• so we are emphasizing the place of the person in the ecology but it's still a person in an ecology
• the place of the person in the ecology but it's still a person in an ecology there's still a person there somewhere

Myco, Eco, Mytho: An Ecology of Stories, with David Abram & Alnoor Ladha 441

• lives are mediated by capital, where we grew up, who our neighbours are, what we do for our leisure time   what we do for our work time, what our social relations are, what our relation to the ecology is.  there's no aspect of our life that's not mediated by money right? we used to have cultures that  
• nation states went all around the world and imposed debt-based capital. and so now indigenous   people cannot even fish or hunt in their own ecologies, without permits, and all of that. and so   now there's one way to acquire goods and services, which is fiat debt-based currency. and so we  

SOPHIE STRAND On the Texas Shooting, Masculinity and Healthy Culture /01 337

• intersection of spirituality storytelling and ecology her first book of essays the flowering

On Mycelium, Compost, and Animate Sensibilities: A Conversation With Sophie Strand 278

• valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality storytelling and ecology but it would probably be more authentic
• am troubled oftentimes when i step into places that are about ecology or environmentalism that they create a
• folkloric tradition that was deeply rooted and about galilean ecology gets deracinated translated into the language
• communicating information about specific ecologies and about how to steward the land in a specific place and how

Re-imagined Education, Cybernetic Flow and Bewilderment with Sophie Strand and Bayo Akomolafe - E147 274

• environments that honor diverse knowledge ecologies and cosmologies in a rapidly changing world
• intersection of spirituality storytelling and ecology but it would probably be more authentic to call her a
• her next epic a mytho-poetic exploration of ecology and queerness in the medieval legend of tristan and isolade
• about entanglement and ecology and feminist new materialisms and how to live in a
• oppressors and deracinated from his ecology and political context and for me what seems like a really

Conversation Recap on SOPHIE STRAND 240

• uh she said we live in contaminated rubble ecologies oh it's a great line she should throw some great stuff out
• the interconnection of all these you know rubble ecologies work together to create this feeling of purity