In Search of Connection
Modern life, along with its material comforts, can bring with it a sense of alienation from our bodies, our community and our environment. In this blog I will record my journey as I search for an embodied experience of connection. Primary to this is to connect to the more-than-human world and one of the ways I will do this is by coming into relationship with the wild plants and animals around me. I approach this as a means to develop my relationship with them in a non-extractive, non-exploitative way, being with them as fellow inhabitants in a shared world. This is one way I seek to attune myself to being-in-the-world with all-my-relations...plant, animal, human and elemental. Another way of describing what I am searching for is for an embodied experience of what Thich Nhat Han calls 'interbeing'. "Interbeing is the understanding that nothing exists separately from anything else. We are all interconnected."
My search journey is being undertaken through a 'decolonising' lens where I am seeking to uncover and become free of the taken-for-granted assumptions I make about the world that emerge out of being located in a patriarchal, capitalist, settler-colonialist position. I am white, from the 'United Kingdom' of 'Great Britain' and benefit from the privileges derived from centuries of extractive exploitation of the human and more-than-human world. In myriad ways I reproduce the tacit assumptions of this eurocentric, capitalist, patriarchal, settler colonialist way of being-in-the-world and this search is a search to loosen the grip of this unseen and unconscious patterning, bringing it to consciousness so it can be processed and let go of.
This will be a diary of my re-search.
My search journey is being undertaken through a 'decolonising' lens where I am seeking to uncover and become free of the taken-for-granted assumptions I make about the world that emerge out of being located in a patriarchal, capitalist, settler-colonialist position. I am white, from the 'United Kingdom' of 'Great Britain' and benefit from the privileges derived from centuries of extractive exploitation of the human and more-than-human world. In myriad ways I reproduce the tacit assumptions of this eurocentric, capitalist, patriarchal, settler colonialist way of being-in-the-world and this search is a search to loosen the grip of this unseen and unconscious patterning, bringing it to consciousness so it can be processed and let go of.
This will be a diary of my re-search.
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