The Deep Time Walk: Celebrating Stephan Harding 1953-2024
Outrage + Optimism
Persephonica
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Since Dr Stephan Harding passed away in September 2024, he has been deeply mourned by the climate community, many of whom have been touched and inspired by his life and work. In honour of his extraordinary contributions to our understanding of this beautiful planet, we’re re-releasing the Deep Time Walk, narrated by Stephan, and which has already been downloaded over a million times.
This re-release includes an introduction by hosts Paul and Tom, and Tom’s eulogy, which he shared at Stephan’s memorial service on 30th September.
Stephan Harding was a founding member of Schumacher College where he was a Deep Ecology Research Fellow, celebrated teacher and author.
As a celebration of this remarkable and beloved man, we hope you enjoy his history of Gaia, told through immersive sound. We encourage you to set aside time to sit comfortably, relax, and learn to “walk well into the life of Gaia” as Stephan puts it. Stephan has had a massive influence on the climate movement, inspiring global leaders to shift their world view towards a Gaian view. We have the privilege of sharing an exercise of that shift with all of you.
Enjoy and RIP Dr Stephan Harding.
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Dr. Stephan Harding
Deep Ecology Research Fellow | Senior Lecturer in Holistic Science
Author of Animate Earth and Gaia Alchemy
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| 0:00.0 | Hi Paul. Hi Tom. So we are sitting in a rather beautiful 16th |
| 0:10.3 | century courtyard in Devon, Dartington Hall. |
| 0:14.3 | And we're here for rather sad reason. |
| 0:16.6 | The funeral of our great teacher, Stephen Harding, |
| 0:19.7 | who taught at Schumacher College, which is probably a couple of hundred yards away or |
| 0:24.3 | meters away, and set in this beautiful countryside kind of remote part of |
| 0:31.1 | England in Devon and we were talking on the way here about how I |
| 0:36.2 | thought that was a part of the extraordinary education he imparted to people. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah he was an amazing teacher and listed to the |
| 0:44.2 | podcast may remember 18 months ago so we and we're going to play this episode for |
| 0:49.2 | you again in a minute he did this incredible deep exploration of time since the beginning of Geier, which has formed |
| 0:56.2 | part of what he's called the Deep Time Walk, where you walk 4.6 kilometers one step for every |
| 1:02.4 | million years, all the way from the beginning of the |
| 1:05.0 | earth right up until today and of course humans appear in the last two millimeters |
| 1:08.8 | or something of that time frame so in a minute you'll hear that but I think we just wanted to kind of, you know, obviously, |
| 1:15.0 | you know, this is a sad day for us. |
| 1:17.7 | And Stephan had a kind of outsized impact, I think, |
| 1:21.1 | on the people who have now formed many of those who are right at the |
| 1:24.5 | center of the climate movement. You'd be surprised the number of people that were |
| 1:27.6 | inspired by him came to Schumacher in the early days and also of the thinking. I mean |
| 1:31.8 | much of this guy in consciousness thinking |
| 1:34.0 | understanding of a global interconnected system that we're totally reliant upon |
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