Siv Watkins: Intimacy with the microbial world
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
kaméa chayne
4.9 • 661 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
“Once folks start to pick away at that scab of understanding how much of a role microbes play in the lives of other things in good ways and bad ways temporally, spatially, physically, and spiritually, it really does open up a rich vein of a new dimension — to start considering the world around us and how we fit in that world.”
In this episode we are joined by Siv Watkins, founder of the platform “Microanimism”. Inviting us to deepen our intimacy with the complex, multi-faceted microbial world, Siv deploys the lenses of science, mysticism, and animism to advocate for some of the smallest, and most mysterious, beings on the planet.
We glimpse into the depth of entanglement between microbes (also referred to as “the smalls”) and their ancient relationship with cycles of life and death; sink into a purview of deep time; and explore questions of “what makes us human?”. Are “our” micro-biomes even “ours”?
Join us as we “shrink down” to expand cosmic perspectives in relation to the reverent, and sometimes terrifying, microbial kin.
(The musical offering featured in this episode is Scissor-tailed Flycatcher by Ben White.)
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| 1:10.8 | Once folks start to pick away at that sort of scab of understanding |
| 1:15.5 | of how much of a role microbes play in the lives of other things |
| 1:22.3 | in good ways and bad ways, temporally, spatially, physically, spiritually. It really does open up a very rich |
| 1:32.8 | vein of a new dimension to start considering the world around us and how we fit in that world. |
| 1:43.9 | Hey, it's your host, Kamea Shane, and on this episode of Green Dreamer, we are speaking with |
| 1:49.2 | Siv Watkins, an academically trained microbiologist, independent scholar, ritualist, and the founder |
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