Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Habib.

Friends, welcome to the How to Live Beyond series of episodes of this podcast.

To open 2023, each episode in this series has considered a set of tools or a way of thinking

that's been useful, but that we're ready to go beyond in 2023.

We've looked at abundance and manifestation,

magic and entheogens, the wellness industry, and more with guests like Mitch Horowitz,

Lisa Romero, Pilar Lesko, and Fria Rochene. These are techniques and traditions that we use to cope with and confront the challenges of our time, but risk if we can't consider them deeply, getting us stuck in those challenges, or worse, driving us even deeper into them.

These episodes aren't a call to forget about these techniques and traditions, but instead a call to bring forward what they've

offered without the barbs of the problems they're tangled up with. For quite some time now,

we've had thoughts about nature and about the natural world just with us, almost like a stone

in our shoe or a river running through our everyday thinking, it's often

irritating. It often brings anxiety or nervousness. The sense that something must be done to

help nature, to help ecology, to help the planet and the climate and the water and the trees

is just always with us. But what? There's a deep relationship between

our spiritual lives and nature, and I wanted to explore exactly what that was. There's a quote,

I love, little verse actually, from the 17th century German mystic poet Angelus Celestius,

which is,

create a single worm, God may not without me.

It dies if we prolong not its vitality.

I love that line because it points to a deep connectivity in creation,

not just that human beings are wandering around, encountering the

creations of God, but we are in a way completing them. We are prolonging their vitality.

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