Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia: 1 (Berlin Technologie Hub Eco pack)

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Working the land with our hands is another way, which is why I would support any effort that gives city dwellers a small plot of land to cultivate. Animate Earth is an Angel TV production in association with GKC films and S4C and written by Dr Stephan Harding, world-renowned ecologist and colleague of James Lovelock.

Be stunned at how many people come, their generosity and openness blooming the work open, even as a blaring August heat wave arrives in New York City during a pandemic.

Chemical reactions, for instance, are described using human metaphors, such as marriage, to bring personality back into the world of rocks, atmosphere, water and living things. He is the Coordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College, where he is also Resident Ecologist and a teacher on the short course programme. The lm goes on to provide an overview of the evolution of scientific thinking from the ancient Greeks to the Enlightenment, and explores the roots and inspiration for today’s holistic scientific thinking, especially in the theories of Goethe and Lovelock. Read all Animate Earth is an Angel TV production in association with GKC films and S4C and written by Dr Stephan Harding, world-renowned ecologist and colleague of James Lovelock.

The mainstream dictates that art itself is the primary theme, and ironic, self-aware surfaces are the method. In one of the interviews, performance artist Marina Abramovic describes how, in ‘Nightsea Crossing-Conjunction’ she and her artistic collaborator, Ulay, invited a Tibetan lama and an Aboriginal medicine man to sit around a table, motionless, looking at each other for four days, four hours each day. I wanted to stay there for as long as it took my bodymind to learn how to be with and not on top of this place. I would try to hold the awareness that the understory beneath me holds a millennium of death, rot, and renewal. An animate universe feels so right for me experientially and now, thanks to people like Dr Stephan Harding and films like Animate Earth, it computes intellectually too.

Here the reader is asked to put aside their rational mindset, that sees Gaia as an elaborate but non-living mechanism, and to view Her with other faculties, emotional, spiritual, tactile, visual. Stephan puts forward a radical approach to the ecological crisis by arguing that many of the problems we now face stem from having lost our intuitive relationship with nature. In the morning I felt a clear shift in my bodymind toward more of a sense of ease as I listened for whether the larch and the forest had given their permission.

Parts were sweet, but the hardcore personification did not work for me -- again, this might work for others!Ever since the industrial revolution and the maturation of of our scientific, materialistic mindset, we have distanced ourselves from the Earth. Learn how the field of science is finally recognising the Earth as one complex, life-sustaining system. Harding breathes life into the elements and microbes while conveying the scientific support for the Gaia theory. Though the book is written for the non-specialist, it provides enough depth to also satisfy the serious scientist. Buddhism wrests us from the grip of art as a set of static, discrete objects – of art as wilfully elite things – in favour of fluctuations of energy and improvisational processes.

I pause from the screen and lay my head back, feeling the shifting pace of my rapid heartbeats echo through me.This encounter with the water soon led me to realize that I had also been taught to refuse encounter with my illness, to keep a similar separation. Anything that throws spirituality and reverence into high relief and cleanses the palette of intolerance is nothing short of marvellous. Especially if their art is oriented towards benefiting others, they are often pegged as community activists rather than being granted status as ‘real’ artists. Many of the silk flower petals around the eye of Dream Puppet were made by people from the neurodiverse and intellectual disability community. Gaia, pur logorata all'estremo, nella sua evoluzione naturale si trasformerà ancora, noi saremmo la prima specie su questa terra responsabile di un'estinzione di massa.