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I WILL NOT BE PURIFIED - Sophie Strand + Amanda Palmer + Gracie and Rachel 18,015

• of it i didn't need to integrate the abuse i needed to place it softly in dark soil i needed to say okay you're
• spirituality to have fur pheromones funk i want it to live in a specific place i wanted to teach me how to be

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

• do see the disenchantment really beginning to take place of course you know when we move
• nomadic societies societies that don't stay in place that shift with the shifting climatological pressures yeah
• trees they actually increase the biodiversity of certain places so what would it look like if we
• permission and not an acute way in a like deeply apprehensive way of places i'm going if i'm allowed to go there
• between these stories and between these places but i agree with you i think i think whenever you believe in
• something like that um do you think that there's a place for that sort of that for that univer
• you know we all have our different places we need to go things that we love ways that we talk and i am i do struggle

Healing: A Ghost Story: Sophie Strand 1,518

• substance we produce stays in its correct place for long it leaks physically and ontologically producing

Myth, Mycelium, and Rewilding Masculinities 1,416

• journey and is there a place there for this more feminine figure as a support of those
• dying resurrecting and then we have jesus all in different places but if we think of mycelium as being that
• mycelium as being reproductive events that are specific flowerings of place and time
• also just as i said before it has to root up and adapt to the specific place we are now
• the world can even look pretty scary you know or a place where there's a lot of insanity going around
• stories and myths have a place in that age we are in or even in a pandemic
• facts for square things for science and what is the place of storytelling what is the place of myth
• and what is the place of storytelling what is the place of myth because when i go to south dakota
• because when i go to south dakota it has a huge place for me it gives me connection to magic
• our bodies can be quite traumatized in those in those places so when we are in this places it's very hard hard to feel
• those in those places so when we are in this places it's very hard hard to feel transverse or horizontal
• mind that i am in a very particular place can be a beautiful exercise and for moments when we're experiencing
• your body your particular body and your particular place so i think both have to exist contiguously
• and so i think there's a kind of habitual putting yourself in place for the miracle that will arrive if you
• how much do you place the body into it and what is the connection to the to the physical body

DAVID ABRAM & SOPHIE STRAND: Magic as Radical Embedding in our Web of Relations 1,080

• and um the ghosts of this land this place so i'm here in cambridge um
• unfurlings but is actually interested in staking its claim or holding its place down here in uh
• experience common to the particular place to that particular terrain or landscape
• from other things other beings but the only place you get to uh to to deploy it uh it's generally is
• there being multiple pronunciations of every name uh each place people in different places
• every name uh each place people in different places ought to say names really differently
• a threshold is a human is a meeting place that that's what we are yeah and i also
• thought oh i have to take you on trips i have to take you places and so all of a sudden i was going to places i would
• i have to take you places and so all of a sudden i was going to places i would never go with this stone and putting it
• there's matter in it that hasn't known the matter in a certain place on top of a mountain right you know for millennia
• intensifying droughts cracking the ground in many places that
• your window um or step out and place your feet upon the ground and walk and notice that with
• multiplicitous weirdness yeah yeah also places suss out the differences
• differences between places i mean we haven't we've we've only you know gently
• plant i mean i mean the matter of the genius loci the spirits of place the uh the unique intelligence or sentience of
• hang out and let that sentience that mind of that place begin to soak through you
• acupuncture needle on the land and we want to go to a place that's because it wants that footstep it wants us to
• wants that footstep it wants us to activate a certain spot to place our bodies physically in somewhere that sets
• to exit these interactions and they always happen in places that are not pristine and not natural that they're
• that that the place of the spirits and the place of the ancestors

UWP interviews 002 with Sophie Strand June 2021 1,074

• other projects you'll see writing and you'll see a place to donate so please please please if this benefits
• along to all the places i need to pass it along to anything else that we need to talk
• yeah the storm is coming and just for everyone let's place it in context
• always end up like the last three places i've lived have been at river confluences
• about it by name in other places but lately i've been thinking that the more you
• about even naming like rivers and places and they don't even make eye contact they come into
• making where you get really murky that place of art making is very similar to the place of being
• really murky that place of art making is very similar to the place of being sick
• before you even see that you have options you have to get to a place sometimes where you can't even see that
• options yeah i mean i think i think that's the place that um to i've been really interested lately
• um to i've been really interested lately in the place where the story ends and not like because there's a an ending
• have a symbol and i thought yeah yeah that's the place you have to get to
• no but and yet if i go into any kind of dreaming place i could describe it for you you know
• like i can tell you that from this place of like sniffing whatever freaking energy chi that is
• being that i can just hop outside and walk to some place like that like like yeah the parks are not like you
• what is the interesting choice to make or where is the interesting place to put my attention
• i'm looking for this right yeah that grows in these places on the immediate specific
• you know you put plants in a complicated place and they will grow and they will figure

Excerpt - Your Pain Is A Window with SOPHIE STRAND 792

• don't really need community in in most modern places like you can basically live you know mostly alone if you wanted

Sophie Strand: Myth & Mycelium 679

• different time period periods and in different places but seemed to have a common through line of attributes they
• um each myth is the mushroom of a certain place an eruption suited to a specific patch of moths sulfur deposits
• offloading it onto a community that didn't make it in the first place that in you know cities and first world

Sophie Strand, Stephen Jenkinson & Charlotte Du Cann. Relational Imaginaries, Kinship Highlights 7 529

• you belong to even though it might not be the place that you were born into or that might actually certainly not belong
• not of a nation-state but of a real place not a place of with movable you know
• but of a real place not a place of with movable you know illusory boundaries and different colors
• but but that the realities of place are murmuring to you
• but man you really need to live in a place that's fundamentally animistic to be able to pull that off

IAN MACKENZIE & SOPHIE STRAND: Composting the Mycelial Masculine 528

• sort of initial german or bavarian um place based understanding and that he used that myth to illuminate the the
• you know like there's this uh there's men's groups all over the place now right and imagine that there was this
• it's in you know healing a forest healing a place protecting a field of like invasive species or not invasive
• effort to grow up your lawns and you know try and give them a place to live and that can be a kind of feeling for
• because in a different context like if i go to a place like i mean i'll just see this example of tamara which is a you
• was like we have to do that often in a cultureless place you know you have to create those things kind of artificially
• remember certain things because we've offloaded them into places you know we think better in rooms full of light with
• but it's going to happen in building these you know containers these places these landscapes where that require
• to create these communities and these places to grow rather than always thinking about it as being a solitary
• might you might go to it first and actually make contact with that place right and like tune in and say hey you
• know i've uh you know we're trying to make way for this place here you know to build this you know structure that is of
• decisions are arrived in the community often there's place made and time made to be in contact and to you know say
• ecosystem you know cleaning uh systems that were in place or how that species related to that species and that
• i think over kathmandu or you know these places where you hear that the smoke you know the smog cleared in some of these
• realized that i had to get consent from places because i couldn't just speed past them so i think about cars as being
• right when there's a sense of i got place to be get out of the way yeah there's a certain inherent domination
• possible i think to be in some kind of sensual right relationship to place whereas as soon as you get to car right
• um mothering or at least the maternal archetype as the place of you know nourishment safety
• uh to other things and other beings and so yeah i'm just leaning into that place as he's getting even more you know
• is going on in their own lives and collectively so it's a beautiful place to to you know mingle with folks like