The Many Voices of Water, Part 2: Imagining Water Beyond Lines

The Emerald

Joshua Schrei

Religion & Spirituality, Trance, Mythology, Culture, Society & Culture, Shamanism, Arts, Justice, Entheogens, Spirituality, Cosmology, Art, History

4.8 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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With the announcement that water futures have begun trading on the stock market, it's time to take a deeper look at our relationship with water. Water challenges us to ask how we are in relationship to something that is both continuous and discrete, something that flows, moves, evaporates, seeps, and pours forth. Yet rather than honor this multivalent nature of water, humans have tended to treat water as an object and a servant. Water is compartmentalized, sequestered, and marginalized, bottl...

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2:06.3	It's May of 2018, and I'm in a town called Bonito in the state of Matugrosu Dusul in Brazil. Bonito sits right at the edge of the Pantanal, which is one of the great
2:11.6	freshwater ecosystems of the world, the world's largest tropical wetlands, 75,000 square miles of water-steeped wilderness,
2:21.0	intricate environments, complex relationships, all fed by rains and deep, deep reservoirs of water.
2:27.9	And all that water brings with it a dazzling kaleidoscope of life, rich vegetation, edible
2:33.8	plants, medicinal plants, hardwoods and
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