In this age of mass extinction, epistemic meltdown, climate anxiety, and billionaire warfare between various techno-dystopias, the word “remember” lives within me - and many of us - as a particularly poignant companion.
To re-member is literally to put the members - the arms, legs, hands, feet, and genitals - back together on a body that has lost its bodily integrity.
What have we forgotten about our own bodies, other bodies and the larger body we are nested within? And what are we remembering - and just in time - to save our own asses and restore some kind of sanity, sacredness and integrity to the places, cultures and systems, both human and natural, that we are embedded within?
Remembering has to do with re-stitching intimacies, tending intersticies, and consciously co-architecting the currencies of time, energy and attention that move between us and all things as a fabric of reciprocity and complementarity.
It has to do with getting our hands dirty, using our voices to assert love, boundaries and beauty, and reconnecting all of our members - our bodies and the extensions of our minds - to our hearts, our souls and the body of the earth.
And, remembering has to do with connecting disparate domains in a bigger vision of wholeness. My writings and life work weaves connections between personal transformation and systemic change. I engage with diverse communities around sacred plant medicine, traditional indigenous wisdom, circular economy, bioregional regeneration, and bionoetic technology.
I see the work of connecting these things as the work of Love, a ceremony for a small planet that we are all in - whether we recognize it or not.
Tielhard de Chardin wrote, “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
I believe in the holy fire of love Chardin envisioned. I say believe with great honesty here. I am not certain of this love, but I offer my life, my words and my work, to tend it. It is the one article of faith in a life otherwise lived through gnostic experience.
In my cosmology, the holy lives in the world. So, harnessing for God is harnessing for Life. Harnessing for God is synonymous with re-membering. It’s an ambitious intent… but that’s what I’m here for.
Join me.