365) Sophie Strand: Rewilding myths and storytelling
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
"The transition from oral cultures into written cultures, for me, really signals a conceptual change that then uproots us from an embedded, environmental, relational existence, in such a way that a certain analytical, linear, and reductionist thinking becomes possible."
In this episode, we welcome Sophie Strand, a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine will be published by Inner Traditions in Fall 2022 and is available for pre-order. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Spring 2023. Subscribe to her newsletter, and follow her work on Instagram.
Some of the topics we explore in this conversation include how the historical transition from oral to chirographic cultures might have reshaped how people perceive of and relate to the world, what it means to reroot myths and storytelling, the relationship between myth and science, and more.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Everyday Magic by Luna Bec. The episode-inspired artwork is by Xiao Mei.)
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| 0:00.0 | I have a quick but important ask. As you're probably aware, Green Dreamer is an independent |
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| 0:55.5 | Hey, it's your host, Kamea, and you're listening to Green Dreamer, a community-powered podcast. |
| 1:01.3 | To be honest, we need more listener donations to be able to keep this show alive because, as you |
| 1:07.0 | can see, we no longer do product advertisements, and we really want to keep it this way, |
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| 1:16.7 | to shed the incentive of appealing to corporate sponsors so that we can maintain our very critical |
| 1:22.8 | lenses and continue to question a lot of mainstream ideas and big green narratives. |
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| 1:47.3 | When you have your neurodivergent or your body is different and you can't necessarily produce work or be effective in in capitalism's narrative, it's problematized and you have to fix it. |
| 1:59.3 | But in a lot of ways it made me notice more about the |
| 2:02.5 | environment. And I noticed small things. I notice insects and slime mold and mushrooms and rootlets, |
| 2:07.8 | and I could notice perturbations in pressure changes and weather. And it seemed strange that this |
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