I’m so glad you’re visiting this topic! So great for many reasons. One thing that’s fascinated me is to look at what was going on in the climate during the axial age of religion- why did people come to hate women and nature so much and build powerful stories based on domination of nature and women? The book, A Green History of Religion, by Anand Veeraraj, talks about this. It’s an academic book so it’s a tough read for most but it’s so vital, imo, to explore the religious paradigm/worldview (human centered and human supremacist, and a male dominator god giving power/control over nature to humans) and how this paradigm is at the root of global industrial culture and economy. I see lots of people wanting these fast and terrifying earth changes to be only about mystical earth cycles and therefore, their paradigm can remain unchallenged and business as usual/limitless economic progress *and* the belief in limitless personal gain can continue. And that’s just another subtle way to avoid truth and remain in denial and delusion. There have always been cultures that followed wisdom traditions and lifeways, earth or eco-centered paradigms that knew if people breached the laws of their land, consequences (feedback loops) were harsh. Anyway this stuff gets me info dumping super hard like a huge nerd. I love that you’re a nerd too!
I'm glad you enjoyed this video! It was a challenging one for me- both technically and otherwise. I think there's a lot to dig into here. I definitely agree that we need to be thinking deeply about our paradigms and assumptions. A larger perspective is important. This isn't all about, can I still get coffee? I say this, of course, as a person who would miss coffee forever if I couldn't get it. But even so. The coffee is not the point.
Yes! The direct and indirect ways this awareness challenges us, and challenges us in ways we haven’t even thought of before. Most modern people are just running on this paradigm hardware/programming. Like what else is there except that earth is the backdrop for my life? It’s such a vague, amorphous perception of life that most people aren’t even aware of, let alone that humans have lived from a vastly different worldview before, and some still do. Btw- omg coffee is my jam and so I’ve figured out the plants that can replace it, and recipes for yummy blends that include plants that can sorta replace cinnamon, cocoa, etc. My snacks are everything so imagine my joy when discovering roasted dadelion and chicory root plus a bunch others 😱😱😱😱 cleavers is in the coffee plant family and the seeds have caffenic acid! I was like, ok so how much cleavers can we realistically be growing alongside dandelions and chicory 🤣
I should try dandelion root! I love the bitter flavor of the young greens. Definitely agree with you that many people are experiencing a profound disconnection.
Fascinating video which has given me a lot to think about! I lost close family & friends to covid, and you’re absolutely right that the grieving rituals/funerals felt unnaturally compressed during that time. In many respects, the inability to give someone a ‘proper send off’ actually prolonged the grieving process. Still, it’s important to remember our human ancestors & all they managed to overcome. We are resilient after all 🙂
@JB-uu3nv my condolences- I definitely agree that the disruption to the grieving process prolonged grieving for me. Like, my friend died, and this is the end of it, is twenty people in a Zoom room together? I think many of us are still in a state of complex grief. It is better to talk about it.
Wow, Emily, this one is incredible. This is vibing on ancient wisdom known as the yugas, wherein the age we are in currently is one of maximum distance from divine order. Randall Carson has a great video about change in the heavenly seasons being marked by calamitous events.
I love this! I'm here for the mad-scientist energy. I have so many thoughts, having a previous career as a Humanities instructor, and also just being a person who thinks about the way we think about death. Thank you for this.
I'm a gay Christian (Episcopalian) and my personal expression of faith draws in elements of so many other traditions past and present. The Jewish principle of tikkun olam is one of my core guides. I have no children, just lots of nieces and nephews. I care deeply about the world I am making for them- is it a more just society? What climate will they find themselves in? And so on. My mother died in 2000 when I was just 22 years old. Since then I've spent countless hours contemplating death, mine and others, even the possible death of our beautiful blue home. I appreciate this video and the work you put into it. Emily, thank you for everything you do! I am disabled so I wish I could financially support you. May the Lord bless you and keep you :)
@shaunstacey8609 thank you for this thoughtful comment, and for your prayers. I am not soft-shoeing you when I say that kind of support deeply matters to me.
This is a really important video. Thanks for the reference back to the past, and for your personal sharing. Not many people get beyond the doomerism. Maybe the climate hospice advocates do to some extent. I'll keep coming back to this video for some time to come.
@jaycoldwell yes agreed. I agree with the conclusions of the doomer-sphere in that modern industrial life is fundamentally incompatible with how earth works, and so of course there are cascading consequences beyond human control. But then doomers can wind up in just another rigid dogmatic narrative and it’s another “case in point” about human hubris and cognitive bugginess. Stuff is dire, to be sure. But also, earth and life and nature is gonna do its thing and so why not be aligned with earth and do things along with earth for however long we can? It’s like, we are here on earth so…be here on earth. Escaping into doomer dogma is another way to avoid being on earth, imo.
Thanks, thinking rationally about the future is difficult because you have to look so far into the past to find any kind of data to base your predictions off of. I didn't learn about much of this deep history throughout my education.
@dirtrockground4543 neither did I! I got into deeper history through tribal oral history. Specifically- PNW tsunami history. That led me down a big rabbithole.
I’m so glad to see you bring this topic up! Excellent presentation and great time period to reflect on. Interesting angle to focus on the work of burial / mourning and its connection to modern day. Thank you so much for sharing!
I’m so glad you’re visiting this topic! So great for many reasons.
One thing that’s fascinated me is to look at what was going on in the climate during the axial age of religion- why did people come to hate women and nature so much and build powerful stories based on domination of nature and women? The book, A Green History of Religion, by Anand Veeraraj, talks about this. It’s an academic book so it’s a tough read for most but it’s so vital, imo, to explore the religious paradigm/worldview (human centered and human supremacist, and a male dominator god giving power/control over nature to humans) and how this paradigm is at the root of global industrial culture and economy. I see lots of people wanting these fast and terrifying earth changes to be only about mystical earth cycles and therefore, their paradigm can remain unchallenged and business as usual/limitless economic progress *and* the belief in limitless personal gain can continue. And that’s just another subtle way to avoid truth and remain in denial and delusion. There have always been cultures that followed wisdom traditions and lifeways, earth or eco-centered paradigms that knew if people breached the laws of their land, consequences (feedback loops) were harsh. Anyway this stuff gets me info dumping super hard like a huge nerd. I love that you’re a nerd too!
I'm glad you enjoyed this video! It was a challenging one for me- both technically and otherwise. I think there's a lot to dig into here. I definitely agree that we need to be thinking deeply about our paradigms and assumptions. A larger perspective is important. This isn't all about, can I still get coffee?
I say this, of course, as a person who would miss coffee forever if I couldn't get it. But even so. The coffee is not the point.
Yes! The direct and indirect ways this awareness challenges us, and challenges us in ways we haven’t even thought of before. Most modern people are just running on this paradigm hardware/programming. Like what else is there except that earth is the backdrop for my life? It’s such a vague, amorphous perception of life that most people aren’t even aware of, let alone that humans have lived from a vastly different worldview before, and some still do.
Btw- omg coffee is my jam and so I’ve figured out the plants that can replace it, and recipes for yummy blends that include plants that can sorta replace cinnamon, cocoa, etc. My snacks are everything so imagine my joy when discovering roasted dadelion and chicory root plus a bunch others 😱😱😱😱 cleavers is in the coffee plant family and the seeds have caffenic acid! I was like, ok so how much cleavers can we realistically be growing alongside dandelions and chicory 🤣
I should try dandelion root! I love the bitter flavor of the young greens. Definitely agree with you that many people are experiencing a profound disconnection.
For anyone afraid of going through coffee withdrawal when (probably not if lol) coffee becomes more scarce- check out Dandy Blend!
Fascinating video which has given me a lot to think about! I lost close family & friends to covid, and you’re absolutely right that the grieving rituals/funerals felt unnaturally compressed during that time. In many respects, the inability to give someone a ‘proper send off’ actually prolonged the grieving process. Still, it’s important to remember our human ancestors & all they managed to overcome. We are resilient after all 🙂
@JB-uu3nv my condolences- I definitely agree that the disruption to the grieving process prolonged grieving for me. Like, my friend died, and this is the end of it, is twenty people in a Zoom room together? I think many of us are still in a state of complex grief. It is better to talk about it.
Wow, Emily, this one is incredible. This is vibing on ancient wisdom known as the yugas, wherein the age we are in currently is one of maximum distance from divine order. Randall Carson has a great video about change in the heavenly seasons being marked by calamitous events.
I am super interested in the kabbalistic overlap here. Will look into these ideas.
I love this! I'm here for the mad-scientist energy. I have so many thoughts, having a previous career as a Humanities instructor, and also just being a person who thinks about the way we think about death. Thank you for this.
@ProfessorDesiree I'd love to hear your thoughts sometime. I need to set up another community chat soon
Thanks Coach!
I'm a gay Christian (Episcopalian) and my personal expression of faith draws in elements of so many other traditions past and present. The Jewish principle of tikkun olam is one of my core guides. I have no children, just lots of nieces and nephews. I care deeply about the world I am making for them- is it a more just society? What climate will they find themselves in? And so on.
My mother died in 2000 when I was just 22 years old. Since then I've spent countless hours contemplating death, mine and others, even the possible death of our beautiful blue home. I appreciate this video and the work you put into it.
Emily, thank you for everything you do! I am disabled so I wish I could financially support you. May the Lord bless you and keep you :)
@shaunstacey8609 thank you for this thoughtful comment, and for your prayers. I am not soft-shoeing you when I say that kind of support deeply matters to me.
This is a really important video. Thanks for the reference back to the past, and for your personal sharing. Not many people get beyond the doomerism. Maybe the climate hospice advocates do to some extent. I'll keep coming back to this video for some time to come.
@jaycoldwell, I am touched by this comment- thank you
@jaycoldwell yes agreed. I agree with the conclusions of the doomer-sphere in that modern industrial life is fundamentally incompatible with how earth works, and so of course there are cascading consequences beyond human control. But then doomers can wind up in just another rigid dogmatic narrative and it’s another “case in point” about human hubris and cognitive bugginess. Stuff is dire, to be sure. But also, earth and life and nature is gonna do its thing and so why not be aligned with earth and do things along with earth for however long we can? It’s like, we are here on earth so…be here on earth. Escaping into doomer dogma is another way to avoid being on earth, imo.
Thanks, thinking rationally about the future is difficult because you have to look so far into the past to find any kind of data to base your predictions off of. I didn't learn about much of this deep history throughout my education.
@dirtrockground4543 neither did I! I got into deeper history through tribal oral history. Specifically- PNW tsunami history. That led me down a big rabbithole.
Thank you for this perspective!
I’m so glad to see you bring this topic up! Excellent presentation and great time period to reflect on. Interesting angle to focus on the work of burial / mourning and its connection to modern day. Thank you so much for sharing!
@kylemecham I appreciate your kind words, I'm glad you enjoyed this!
Interesting topic, thanks for the thoughtful perspective. Now I’m off to do a 4.2 kiloyear side quest for more info! 😂
The 8.2ka event is a big one, too! Glad you enjoyed the video, it was fun to do the research on this one.
Thank you.
thanks