[Unedited] Robert Macfarlane with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Society, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Sociology, Culture, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Social Sciences, On Being, Arts

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

There’s dark matter in the cosmos, and inside us, and hidden beneath our feet. Robert Macfarlane is an explorer and linguist of landscape and his book, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, is an odyssey that’s full of surprises — from caves and catacombs under land, under cities, and under forests to the meltwater of Greenland. “Since before we were Homo sapiens,” he writes, “humans have been seeking out spaces of darkness in which to find and make meaning.” Darkness in the natural world and in human life, he suggests, is a medium of vision — and descent, a movement toward revelation.

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0:00.0	Support for on-being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build
0:04.5	the Spiritual Foundation for a loving world.
0:07.7	Fetzer's new study, what does spirituality mean to us?
0:11.4	Reveals how spirituality informs our understanding of ourselves and each other, and inspires us
0:16.5	to take action for the common good.
0:19.0	Explore these findings and more at spiritualitystudy.org.
0:24.0	I'm Christa Tippett, up next, my unedited conversation with Explorer and Linguist of
0:29.8	Landscape, Robert McFarland.
0:32.8	There is a shorter, produced version of this, wherever you found this podcast.
0:38.2	Were you just on another interview?
0:41.0	Yes, I was with Michael N. Wright up at CBC.
0:45.6	I'd met before actually here in Cambridge, but we had a great conversation.
0:50.8	So my voice is well warmed up.
0:53.3	Okay, good.
0:54.3	I'm glad you feel that way, rather than talked out.
0:58.9	No, no, not at all.
1:02.9	I'm buzzed.
1:03.9	How are we?
1:04.9	Do we need more…
1:05.9	Do we need levels or anything?
1:07.9	Maybe not.
1:08.9	Okay.
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