#nature intelligence

[dylski]

“Social Facilitation”

(via Why baby turtles work together to dig themselves out of a nest | New Scientist)

[internalclimate-blog]

For wind is moodiness personified, altering on a whim, recklessly transgressing the boundaries between places, between beings, between inner and outer worlds. The unruly poltergeist of our collective mental climate, wind, after all, is the ancient and ever-present source of the words spirit and psyche. It is the sacred ruach of the ancient Hebrews (the invisible “rushing-spirit” that lends its life to the visible world); it is the Latin anima, the soulful wind that animates all breathing beings (all animals); it is the Navajo Nilch’i (the Holy Wind from whence all earthly entities draw their awareness).

David Abram

[geopsych]

Co-creation is more than using the knowledge we have gathered through science to do what we think is best for the earth. It is actively seeking the input of nature itself, from one intelligence to another. Nature intelligence has ideas and solutions that we ourselves would never dream of. But we have to ask for them. Can we set aside our linear, rational minds, enter into a state of humility, and engage with something more? Can we suspend our preconceptions about what we think is best and listen to the divine within nature? Co-creation means saying yes to all that and more.

Dorothy MacLean, Memoirs of an Ordinary Mystic.

Dorothy MacLean was one of the founders of Findhorn Garden. One of the great things about what happened at Findhorn Garden is that it points to a way of establishing relationships with the land and with nature that doesn’t require us to imitate past cultures or appropriate their ways in order to work intimately with the nonhuman beings around us. We can reach out to nature from where we are, here, today.