369) Andy Letcher: Cultivating reciprocity with animistic views of relationality
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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“An animistic worldview is one I think that is deeply embedded in relationality, exactly the kind we need at this moment of crisis. So far from it being a ‘primitive thing,’ I think actually it can show us ways forward about how to be in the world, and how to be in the world with gratitude, knowledge, reciprocity.”
In this episode, we welcome Andy Letcher, a Senior Lecturer at Schumacher College, Devon UK, where he runs the MA Engaged Ecology. He is the author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom and numerous papers and chapters about the nature of contemporary psychedelic experience.
Some of the topics we explore in this conversation include different interpretations of ecology and how they influence our approaches to caring for the planet, how the animistic worldview offers guidance for our paths towards collective healing, what it means to root personal engagements with psychedelic medicines within deeper cultural changes, and more.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Power by India Blue. The episode-inspired artwork is by )
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| 1:22.1 | I was a scientist. I trained as a scientist. I was an ecologist. |
| 1:26.3 | I still see great value in science and I wouldn't want to get rid of it entirely. |
| 1:32.0 | But I'm very clear that we need to put boundaries around the kind of knowledge that science can generate |
| 1:37.5 | and accept that there may be other forms of knowledge that are equally valid |
| 1:43.7 | that don't involve abstraction, that involve |
| 1:46.8 | a deep knowing through being in the world. |
| 1:51.8 | Today we're speaking with Dr. Andy Letcher, a senior lecturer at Schumacher College, Devon, United |
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