What’s piqued my interest these last few days is the design of research methodology. The current research paradigm in the West still glows with the logical empiricism of early 20th century thought, divided into qualitative and quantitative research. Very limited methods of measurement and analysis are accepted. Thus, Science is rather lopsided, as it’s only [...]

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For a while on my blog we’ve been talking about delusions of separateness and the pathologies it creates. What I’ve been thinking about lately is: what caused this initial delusion of separation from the rest of the world? What was that switch? A few have identified some of the trends, ideologies, and philosophies that push [...]

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Why are we paying attention to interactions with other species?
By paying attention to how we communication and interact with other-than-human persons around us, we are helping to create emergent co-intelligent system in our bioregions–and ultimately, globally.
A natural system evolves and merges with larger supersystem when information or intelligence on that level is integrated. It then [...]

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All that exists lives
All that lives is worthy of respect
You don’t have to like what you respect
Not liking someone is no reason for not respecting them
Respecting someone is no reason for not eating them
Reasons are best worked out in relationship – especially if you are looking for reasons to eat someone – or if you [...]

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[Originally posted: www.podcollective.com/fora/viewtopic.php]
i am air.
i speak for all gasseous combinations of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen and other small amounts of different gasses in the form of what humans call “air”, which exist within the gaian sphere, not including steam.
i am an ancient being, born in my first form as hydrogen, at the beginning of [...]

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In Denali NP, I was in a region known as the eco-tone- the boundary between the taiga (a Russian word for Northern Forest) and the arctic tundra.
The only trees that grow there are Black Spruce. They are very small in comparison to the trees here in the Pacific NW due to the very short growing [...]

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This last week, I was having some conversations here and there regarding plant-people relationships. Some responses I recieved were something to the effect of: well, shouldn’t we going beyond this? Plant intelligence is inferior, and less-evolved.
And this troubled me a little bit.This rolled around for a while in my head. And then I was camping [...]

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I’ll be the first to relay my experience with talking with my orchid. She appeared to me to be a female energy, very delicate, talking mostly in whispers. After some discussion about plant medicines, I noticed she seemed sad.
She really wanted to convey that plants just want to be heard and acknowledged.
She also said that [...]

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Introduction to the Project
The Earth’s Voices are Heard is a collaborative project that explores the meanings in inter-species communication. This project aims to collect as many experiences of this type of communications as possible. From there, we can then see the commonalities that emerge in the messages.
Background Theories and Key Ideas
-Inter-Species Communication-
It is not my [...]

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