Ours is an Era of the Return.
We live in a transitional 21st century. This chapter in Earth’s narrative tumbles humans headlong from the industrial, to the informational, and to the virtual until, at this very moment, Nature bends back on the spiral and beckons us to return to herself in primal utterances of weather and muted voices of prophets. The narrative of this return is long but not linear.
It is both epistemological and ontological.
It is about a coming home to the essence of our being and our intuitive knowing.
It is about rethinking our Western thinking.
It is about connectivity while embracing individuality.
It is about giving up on capitalism as we know it, but not democracy.
It is about submitting humans to the larger community of life.
It is about hoping that this larger circle of life will accept us back.
It is about becoming part of the land by digging in the soil and sifting through the roots, trying to decide what roots are weeds and what roots are fertile for new gardens.
It is about learning how to be both wild and civilized, like the bees, feral cats , suburban coyotes, and golf course deer.
We will either make this return journey or go the way of species extinction. Questions arise: what fuels the return? Evolutionary Spirit?If so, What forms are dissolving? What forms of coherence are rising?
