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Re/searching the Sacred | REC 2.0 210

• lots of exercises about researching your relationship to your more than human kin and opening up those sensory portals and
• matter we're already these um fossils of lost places and lost relationships that our hands were developed for grasping
• open um dynamic relationship with what is sacred
• that will provide the most opportunity for relationship and change and risk me being changed
• if my sense of of of being in alignment or being in relationship with the sacred is real why is this happening to me
• into a spiritual quest into an interrogative participatory relationship with the with the sacred is being
• and then how to be in relationship with um coming back out into
• i'm just allergic to it somehow um i'm trying to change my relationship to it and think about it in different

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

• real attempt 20 years into this relationship and it worked
• was about like a kind of scatological effort of graphing relationships by what they produce
• i finally realized that it was a relationship that i was having and so i call it a divorce because truly i'm
• and once i realized that this relationship was failing me you know in certain areas where it
• that i had to divorce myself of that relationship of smoking and moving away and here's why but then filling that
• of your relationship with with smoke because i
• because i because i haven't had that relationship with smoke i'm almost regretting it like
• so don't don't look at the violation just look at the relationship that she's exploring here because that's
• we are not in charge of the materials around us that every relationship everything we come into embodied contact
• you know i've always had this uh this relationship with weirdness um
• not just inviting people into weird relationship with things around them but the way that i see weirdness as not
• that i see coloniality as a relationship between bodies and their prosthetics right
• a wider network of perception also has to do with our relationship with the
• when we re-root it in the body shows us the actual relationships that build us i mean it's funny that you brought up the

The Mycelium Explored: Merlin Sheldrake and Sophie Strand 128

• moment as humans to think about the new relationships we can force both with humans and with modern humans as we look
• between and relationships given relationships can flux around on that spectrum
• um so i or any number any number of relationships that that we make um so collaboration in this sense to me
• fungi into an ecosystem they come a map of relationships and if you pour a myth in the old oral sense of a myth into a
• place that becomes a map of relationships like i was thinking homer didn't have a structured memorized story
• that didn't suit a specific map of people and relationships and so and they were called the rhapsods the stitcher of
• soil fungi or the stitcher of these of these relationships so i was thinking of the the rapside the bardic tradition in
• the coming back into activity into relationship into culpability within a very complicated culture
• visible expressions of fungal relationships and so that work that walk would defamiliarize plants to me they'll
• healing doesn't necessarily take place in my own body but in my relationships and i think that's the thing that i take
• realizing that my mind isn't in here it's in my relationships if i'm with different people i'll have a different
• the lives of mycorrhizal fungi and all of the relationships that they enable and participate in to bring these lives

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

• what we have lost to restore our broken relationships to the land where we dwell and to remember the human place
• inspires many thought-provoking connections about the relationship between humans culture and nature
• and i occasionally used it in relationship to dionysus and how dionysus is anarchic and
• the land teaching us how to be in right relationship with land and so when a myth is functioning in a correct way in
• teaches us how to be in right relationship um i really loved i just listened to
• ecosystem and you lose your relationships and your kinship you do have to like re-articulate stories
• and they say that maybe that taboo is related to the the work relationship of you know there's not a lot of work to be
• you know i mean that to me is sort of the the relationship of a mythology and and you know there's an underworld in
• uh our role on the planet and our relationship and does it even matter if people exist as long as like life
• a kind of um entitled relationship to particular places so their hereditary um
• domestication as a particular sort of relationship but that's not to say that um there aren't
• influences on domestication in our relationship through all those things right i don't think this is a

Spark Series: Sophie Strand 121

• to live interstitially inside the intelligence of relationships the way out of a monolithic story is by
• they can queer our ideas of how stories and how relationships and how minds are supposed to happen you know they have no
• individuality they're in symbiotic relationships with root systems of plants with
• type into the chat one being with whom you have a pretty intimate relationship so that we could start to create in a
• what she does is that she has this what i think is an animistic relationship with objects that she finds as she walks
• thing to focus on are ecosystems or relationships um rather than on um one monologue species
• my intimate action and my practice of being in relationship with my beloveds and moving toward what feels in my body
• that certainty that we're bending toward justice to be in right relationship with my practice my practice is just getting

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

• it's so important to keep this this paradoxical relationship open because then then you can if you if you
• make them um simple like all sort of relationship conundrums on the physical plane or on
• conundrums on the physical plane or on on a relationship plane and and you need to understand this paradox of being
• this also building um relationships on the level of the human heart and on the level of the
• so so it's it has to do with the relationship of um of the the inner experience and and

SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312 84

• that actually do work in your life that actually designate real relationships like my guess is it's not justice it's
• being in better relation or right relationship with the earth and with the cycles and so i've really been in a
• and yeah i don't know if i want to ask that in relationship to fungi because i think maybe they have well it's funny i
• hospital rooms and has been in you know complicated relationships with people who are helping to support my body with
• ground my horizal system is a map of relationships and so a myth can also be a map of relationships in a place that
• relationships and so a myth can also be a map of relationships in a place that you see of course deities or figures but
• moments where we're forced to create a relationship that may hold the potential for new worlds
• behind it each word stands for a real relationship like a real experience and i think about how many words that you
• backing no root system they don't actually designate a relationship or some being that you're responsible to
• that actually do work in your life that actually designate real relationships like my guess is it's not justice it's
• yeah health you know it will probably designate like real relationships you have with plants with other people

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

• looking for some type of healing relationship that didn't go just one way but that you know was opening up a vein
• about your upbringing and um yeah your relationship with your relationship with the plants and yeah i
• um yeah your relationship with your relationship with the plants and yeah i agree they're they're just so generous
• have different plants of smells and textures and and complex relationships that are constituted related by
• that are constituted related by relationships not by heroic individuals and
• just sell it you know it's like this relationship so yeah that's the story of the gold
• you know teaching you how to live in the right relationship with the precise ecosystem where you are like the myth of
• it's it's oral it's teaching you about right relationship to land it's it belongs to a people and a people in a
• cultural way of understanding how to be in right relationship with land i think it's much more like an aggregor or much
• necessarily teaching me how to be present and in right relationship with the hudson valley so yeah i i think it's
• yeah you have to be able to straddle your ancestral relationship to stories and then your need to tap into the
• what are some of the ways that you learn how to be in right relationship with the ecosystem that you are in now
• where you live outside noticing and being in a relationship and when you notice that something's
• different ways and i also really how to be in right relationship right now when everything we do is kind of
• you know it's following those webs of relationship and seeing what they have to teach you

Sophie Strand: Rewilding and Retelling 22

• fungi and algae that composed lichen the relationship was initially looked at with consternation
• quantify and measure this complicated relationship recent studies have been covered that
• and um they what they do is they map the relationships of a place physically they become a map of relationships and i
• relationships of a place physically they become a map of relationships and i think that myths do the same thing is
• they're often they're vessels for ecological wisdom and relationships they're you know we know with some
• you know myth is a vessel where you place your relationships and and that where you map your relationships just
• place your relationships and and that where you map your relationships just like fungi and math relationships of a
• where you map your relationships just like fungi and math relationships of a forest so do map the relationships of
• like fungi and math relationships of a forest so do map the relationships of the community in a specific place
• gold behind it every word represented a real relationship a real being in your in your world every word was it had gold
• where um the human relationship with nature was much more

Revisiting Iron John & The Wild Man with SOPHIE STRAND 20

• that to me is like the overall relationship between them and then so i'm curious for you yeah what what do
• primordial pre-civilized yeah you know relationship and of course then we see the he messages it or he speaks to it in
• so he's weaving a relationship and this kind of seems to me to point towards those rights and
• happen and sustainable and to create kinship and reciprocal relationships in order to create that being
• i think bly had a very particular relationship with his mom and if he had been a little bit more
• male into a more complicated reciprocal relationship um
• um the difference between men and women and more about our relationship to our ecology and our environmental context
• brought us into more dynamic relationship with environmental causes um and that's an open question
• idea that was brought up in the relationship to how animals develop and especially in relationship to embryology
• relationship to how animals develop and especially in relationship to embryology but then it was developed which is like
• the other things that rupert shall drake says in relationship to morphic resonance is it evolves these patterns
• have much more of a descriptive yeah relationship right to beings or beingness um i think of indigenous