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Sophie Strand: In Our Bones, We Knew This Was Going To Happen 236

• it was too much to like live in this place and in this time and in the with my body and this like it was too much to
• words but it's that thing of um you know there's no place to go in this there's no way to escape it there's

Rewilding Myths with Ecology with Sophie Strand 224

• medicine for a specific social situation specific plants and animals in a place that you know for example i was just
• through text is they get deracinated from the places where they were
• where they were born and the places that they were responding to and translated
• my favorite um swimming spot which is the secret place deep in the woods with these old tumbled
• and i think of the intimacy i have with that place is a deeper intimacy than i've ever had with a human being exactly
• we're facilitating just by going to places and stepping into an acupuncture point on the land
• the wind was touching my body and exactly the places that needed to heal you know like and it knew me so deeply

The Portal of the Divine Feminine with Sophie Strand 212

• interesting um when people start in one place and end up somewhere else so i i wonder if you could tell us a little bit
• that spirituality was had a root system that pre was primarily place based it was your relationship with the natural
• people it seems like they start in one place and then there's sort of this pivot and i think those are people who
• it's the matrix it's the soil it's the place where one rhizome one root system leaks into another root system it's
• self-portraying i'm interested in ecotones which are places where one ecosystem dramatically
• greek words eco for household oikos and tonos for tension so it's a place where tensions are held and because they're
• me is it kind of arrived in the same place you are that that it is a slippery slope to try and come up with one story
• my book the um the flowering wand is a really great place to start oh my gosh and for anybody who's listening is like
• cynicism and that's why i think fiction is a really interesting place to do channeling work which is you acknowledge
• although each time they fruit up in a specific place they're very particularly adapted to the conditions that they're
• system do they root me in a particular place do they root me into my community be you know my community that extends
• i i feel like i have so many more okay i think this is a good place to stop like we could yeah i think this is a good
• we could yeah i think this is a good place i actually i love i love the idea of of complicating the idea of a

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• have connective tissue where you know my joint sublux it's those places of friction those places where i i do
• joint sublux it's those places of friction those places where i i do rupture where i do leak that i feel
• opening there and and if academia is the place for these these for this research or or if
• have become geographies of the sacred and and places where breakdown has a lot to teach us
• matter we're already these um fossils of lost places and lost relationships that our hands were developed for grasping
• cartography altogether and i think that is the opportunity those places of failure those places of openings are
• is the opportunity those places of failure those places of openings are are education of a different
• well uh this this feels like a question of place making for me
• some of the writers 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 in different ways
• i've led a life by the book i shouldn't be in this place i'm a good man
• space where we've been called into a deeper place with ourselves that now there is a process of
• go back to something that never served you in the first place and so um this this kind of dance um
• academia and the constrictions that they place um
• crumbling then we need to go to those places of failure
• uh 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

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• blah blah blah breathing food everything in its place and it's funny because i go through
• is very personal to you and in order to find a place where you could
• to to a governor's place and they rolled out a red carpet i held
• each thing we say we talk about the weather we talk about the place but i'll just say this
• but i'll just say this holy place where i find myself now i'm i'm
• and have cared for this this earth for so long in this place but this place also tended
• this earth for so long in this place but this place also tended cared for by
• you know what i mean so i'm looking for those things to put into its place you know um you know i smoked my essence
• is that in order to get to that particular place there has been some kind of practice or
• i've been thinking of impurities as being the place where the sacred has been hidden and
• you know um web if you will this nesting place together
• a crossroads or orita the place where the three roads meet where robert johnson met the robert
• laura speaks about interface as this place of you know this marginally
• to their prosthetic dependency to insist that viruses remain in a place of viruses to insist that education is
• right the uh the final resting place of all ontologies
• doing this it's it's it dances off from that sense and into that place where you are
• i shift took place when we went from matriarchal loving goddess worship with mother god
• beyond that body that is the most we're talking about experiencing that place of communion where
• face to face replenishing the culture of face to face and face to place storytelling
• storytelling face to place storytelling storying up the land there's no
• the land letting some stories live in the place where they happen
• first met us um and letting this the place carry those tails so we don't
• write them down so they can be carried on to other places and distant continents and all that place-specific
• on to other places and distant continents and all that place-specific scrumptiousness in the tail it begins to
• only on the tongue when we're in the place and the place speaks them
• animal through emergence through the processul then we come to a place of utter ecstatic silence where we're being

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• and are personified in different forms at different times in different places depending on where
• it's a kind of a locust genia a low-key genius it's the spirit of place i i honestly think that it's not archetypes
• um so i oftentimes think that that my oil system is a spirit of place that's using coming up through the feet it's
• boring way to describe some in some sense the spirit of a place um but erupting through the morphology
• um uh maybe easier ways to read those um those expressions of a place uh then then organisms like us which both are
• in the old oral sense of a myth into a place that becomes a map of relationships like i was thinking homer
• um and what it teaches me about how my healing doesn't necessarily take place in my own body but in my relationships
• the interface the ecotone i think of ecotone is a place where there's the highest biodiversity of fish in birds
• between us where eco oikos for home tone for tonos tension the place where we hold tensions together and i think that

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
• relationships to the land where we dwell and to remember the human place in the wild
• mythologizing and remythologizing what it means to be wild and rooted to place and anyone who is looking to feel a
• the taboo um but in in learning those myths about this place it's interesting because i've learned
• completely out of their time and place anyway including including the ones that
• it's not like place based it's um imagine it in the imagination
• it's um imagine it in the imagination it's still place based in that sense right so i wasn't actually engaging with
• right so i wasn't actually engaging with my place but then it made me want to do that and so when i was like 12 you know
• actual enactment of uh subsistence practice in a place i think if you're not practicing
• but like where um place-based uh connection happens is from the place
• place-based uh connection happens is from the place which is again i think why so much of
• a kind of um entitled relationship to particular places so their hereditary um
• stuff and now i feel like the best way to connect to a place is by literally being integrated and involved with it
• emerge from the more i can engage with my place and the less i can like basically get food that's grown
• the comet but just the the sort of like deep connection to their place and story uh and and not seeing their their lives
• they they flow into the valleys of this oppression they show up in the places where we've created death and that's
• actually a little bit more legitimate um and that maybe taboos are in place as this kind of ecological check
• so i don't know i'm i'm kind of in this in this place right now where i'm like i'm really wanting to understand
• being a flowering mushroom popping up in these different places right like uh so again that resonated
• i really like don't know enough about that um that's a place that i haven't gone
• our hunger can destroy us but it can also tie us into place yeah yeah awesome

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• a lightning strike to the soil and so places that are very rainy um can have really nitrogen-rich soil
• elements to fall right into place the sky is brightness
• to eat the sun to place you in the fertile realm of blended bothness
• things on our checklist then we'll just arrive at this like health place or health moment or equilibrium that'll
• the objects and the people and the places and beings around you
• and i said well you've come to the right place because this is one of my favorite pieces of language and i started to

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

• keep a little bit on this in this profoundly metaphysical place right because because it's i i really happen
• and insects and put them back in those missing places that it's made me new in a way that just normal life would not
• but it it won't annihilate ourselves because in this remote place we we are just this
• with that historical place we're in right now because because this is very much about

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• but that that actually might be a very fertile generative place to be that i might not be sprouting stories that i
• um and that can be a more interesting place to begin to inhabit um that you know to enter life be food
• in getting there it's almost a surrender like to even get to the place of being altered by love isn't about control and
• thoughts enough to even understand how we even get to a place where we are living in a purposeful way altered by
• mm-hmm i'm really it's a pretty wild place to have gone with that no i'm but i'm seeing it i'm i'm feeling it and i
• the leaders who built it in the first place and i started studying theology and
• relational experience a dialogue with a specific place and that it was you know it lived in breath it lived in community
• up like a mushroom from the mycelial system of a specific place you know on my cellular system below
• relationships and so a myth can also be a map of relationships in a place that you see of course deities or figures but
• time so i think of myth mythic systems in certain places as being like mycorrhizal mycilial fungal systems
• trauma that comes from many different places but um yeah i'm just i'm still in this place
• places but um yeah i'm just i'm still in this place of
• dramatically shifts into another and it's often a place where we see the highest biodiversity of species like
• comes from boycos for home household and toenails for tension it's the places it's the place where tensions are held
• toenails for tension it's the places it's the place where tensions are held in a household and i think that when we
• you would never risk if you didn't have that laugh in the first place you know when plants first made it onto dry land
• neighbors you know the the the the places that don't seem to hold that much importance as perhaps being the most
• going further because we don't we're not invested in those places and we don't have a way to really yeah have power
• and we're really losing power and momentum to heal the places we can you know it's so interesting so i'm one of
• have with plants with other people um with places um so like what are your 50 most