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EP 227, Sophie Strand: Mushrooms and Mind 513

• i i tend to call it human gps being in the right place at the right time without knowing how you got there
• liminal realm between water and land it's the place where intra-activity happens where the water is working on
• readers it's not happening so i put it down and i was in such an intense place and i've been increasingly i've been
• kind of a new group and i just heard him and i want to play it at our dance place maybe sometimes a called a secret you're
• now how does it do that how does it do that i've i've lived in the same place for two years i've been in this
• this and i i think of myself sometimes as being in this place that has no it's an
• so we are emphasizing the place of the person in the ecology but it's still a person in an ecology

Sophie Strand reads at Bard 448

• direction towards the star that tells the breath of the wet place marked by black mold mer blocked air after birth
• in the earth like the roots of mushrooms that will beat him back to a place where the virgin sweated stung heaved mightily
• life through the spine of its story i fell from the bowels of a place into november 22nd 1963 some sidewalk people
• service the corner block in some temple hold a notch and place with your dimpled slate and you did with a kiss you

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

• begin to practically become good students of our culture? what does that look like? alnoor ladha: yeah, this is also like, lifelong practice. so i think the starting place   for me is really ontology. the more i research into this work, and  
• understanding, not the ceiling of understanding. it's one way to interpret the world and   what i'm gesturing towards is a transrational approach, where rationality has its place   alongside intuition, the whispering and murmurs of ancestors, the wisdom of place,  
• what i'm gesturing towards is a transrational approach, where rationality has its place   alongside intuition, the whispering and murmurs of ancestors, the wisdom of place,   the dialogue with the animate cosmos, and the gaian intellect. these things are  
• gazing our relationality to the world, then we will just replicate the same structures over   and over, that ontology is the starting place, and ontology is not a switch. we can't just go from   positivism, rationalism, materialism, to animism and relationality and quantum queerness with  

Rerooting Yeshua as a Magician Storyteller, with Bayo Akomolafe (Extended) 438

• nature-based parables that were rooted in a very specific place and very specifically critiquing empire as a
• going to say quickly that it's like um the the geometries of place become subservient to the imperative of space
• to reform and he was responding to a deeply place-based religion that you know it had complicated aspects but it
• another person interrupting another person but it can also be the place where you're so shocked that that
• the tensions that we spoke about in in other places um that there isn't a single thing that

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

• they're fruiting bodies of a particular place in time but that they come from this almost mythological
• land and i think of america as being a place that's soaked in blood so many different types of violence and
• have an answer right now i'm definitely speaking from a place where i feel anguished and confused and paralyzed i
• very strongly believe that the ecological wisdom of one place cannot be transplanted to another place
• that the ecological wisdom of one place cannot be transplanted to another place that you know we're all connected but
• roles for different communities and places with different trees and plants and animals and social ideas and and
• spirits and animus entities that live in places and have different requirements i mean where i live in the hudson valley
• backgrounds those archetypes will begin to emerge in place situated in place you know fungi don't have a body plan when

Sophie Strand Reads for the Bard Program in Written Arts (11/20/14) 330

• that tells the breath of the wet place marked by black mold myrrh
• lead him back to the place where the virgin sweated stunk heaved mightily an imprint of her
• life through the spine of its story i fell from the bowels of a place into november 22 1963 some sidewalk people
• could be of service the corner block in some temple hold a notch in place with your dimpled slate and you did with a

Radical Women & Stereotypes: Sophie Strand & Amanda Yates Garcia 321

• going on specifically in that land and in that place among those people among those animals among those
• impulse of the state is to manage from an external place where they're going to impose laws so

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

• again in reunion we are the place where matter that has been separated finds its home again
• i just want to offer that as a starting place thank you um thank you so much beautiful starting place
• place thank you um thank you so much beautiful starting place and it seemed to already start answering
• am troubled oftentimes when i step into places that are about ecology or environmentalism that they create a
• divine feminine i felt like that was a safe place to be for a while um but very quickly it felt too
• surrogate root system and that still takes place today i think it's like 90 of plants have
• ecologies and about how to steward the land in a specific place and how the problem in the past two thousand
• that myths are mushrooms of a certain place they're coming from a deep underground
• the same underground system but fruiting in a specific place at a specific time i'm so curious how you relate to
• you know taking in myths from other places or say um
• um you know our ancestral places which are not i don't live on my ancestors lands
• do you tune to the ancestral stories of your place are they easy to find
• from the hudson valley i live in a place where there was just
• you know when you talk about the the sit spot and going to the place in that 20 mile radius often where we're going to
• and you know mayo clinic all these different places and have people tell me like this is all the things we're going
• relationship to place and other beings um
• like we that yeah that we can look for for our elders and surprising places yeah

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

• backgrounds and experiences the conference that took place in february was asking the question how do we
• tissue where you know my joint sublux it's those places of friction those places where i do rupture where i do
• it's those places of friction those places where i do rupture where i do leak that i feel myself being
• shifting and opening there and if academia is the place for this research or or if you're finding it in other ways
• have become geographies of the sacred and and places where breakdown has a lot to teach us
• matter we're already these fossils of lost places and lost relationships that our hands were developed for grasping
• think that is the opportunity those places of failure those places of openings are
• most interesting choice here this feels like a question of place making for me
• that i deeply respect and elders from our place responded with story
• precipice of things and we're being invited to make place and make room
• led a life by the book i shouldn't be in this place i'm a good man why is this happening to me right
• feel that in this space where we've been called into a deeper place with ourselves
• go back to something that never served you in the first place and so this kind of dance as we find ourselves
• crumbling then we need to go to those places of failure
• i think mother is waiting for us at the or in the spaces of cracks in the places of deep failure
• i think mother is waiting for us in places of deep communal disability that we need generative incapacitation

Conversation Recap on SOPHIE STRAND 240

• are interconnected and really it's more about your place within something and fulfilling your place within an indian
• about your place within something and fulfilling your place within an indian context you know we call that one's
• you know everybody has a role and a place um but if you take yourself too
• one's wounds to the wounds of the world right like those those places that are wounded within one's own
• dialogue with the natural world had affirmed to me the place that i was in in my interconnectedness with it that
• and knowing that i was leaving that place uh the prayer that came forth was one
• in communication with all the life that had been holding me in that place that i was actually witnessed i was witness by
• and so you know you find these places where the the the microbiome or the gut biome has