375) Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen: Reclaiming 'traditional' and recovering nordic animist relations
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we welcome Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen, a Ph.D in History of Religions, researching Brazilian orisha religion. He has lived in a number of countries in Europe, Africa North- and South America. His present work focuses on the rejected animist landconnectedness ecological knowledge and kinship with the greater community of beings in North European Traditional knowledge.
Some of the topics we explore in this conversation include how the construction of Nordic modernity and nationalism led to a rejection of animism in Northern Europe, reclaiming Euro- ‘traditionalism’ from right-wing extremism, understanding myths as stories that produce relations, and more.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Tear Down The Wall by Forest Veil. The episode-inspired artwork is by Isadora Machado.)
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| 1:37.7 | Climate reports and scholarship is actually predicated on a modernist idea of perceiving the world, where we are detaching ourselves from the world. We are making the world something |
| 1:43.2 | that we observe and describe as a detest from |
| 1:46.6 | ourselves. But it is a disconnected language that don't produce people relating with the actual |
| 1:54.6 | problem. Now mythology is a language that places knowledge of relation into relation with people. By the way, that it appeals to |
| 2:07.6 | our emotions and our imaginations. And it is a language that reaches deep into our instinctual system |
| 2:15.5 | and our whole human constitution in order to make relational knowledge |
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