"I have wetlands within me"...I just burst into tears at the beauty and eloquence and consideration you both are expressing throughout this most exquisite conversation. Thank you both for inviting us in and your sharing your life's passion with us.🌿
This is so fascinating. I am giving some humble classes to kids of the age 6-7y.o. on special Saturday school. I tell them, for example, the stories about stones and rocks and their direct engagement in all life on the planet . I firstly had my very doubts to dare to do so, as we never being taught ourselves at the university to teach things in that way. I tell them that scientists divided nature on living and not leaving objects for convenience to stady them. But in reality everything is interconnected. This podcast saved me from my doubts as weather I am on a right path. Interestingly, kids love so much to suggest their own hypnotises . It drives them to get purely exited about the world around them, ones they are allowed to participate in finding answers which we don't yet really have.
You have opened a door, where healing, happiness, respect and owe will conduct our does and don´ts... A new era to understand with all our senses and feellings. Thank you so much!!!
Mauro Zappaterra speaks of cerebral spinal fluid as 'the fluid nature on consciousness', explaining the intricate chemical signaling involved. The fluid within the hyphae tubules of the fungal seems akin to CSF. Cerebral spinal fluid bathes and interpenetrates our entire central nervous system, our very apparatus for localized consciousness.
What a pleasure to bear witness to this meeting of the minds. It has been quite the sensation to hear a discussion involving many threads, the flavor familiar, like a favored seat in some sun shined memory, interwoven gorgeously and wonderfully reframed by two previously unheard, and yet not unfamiliar voices. fresh felt dew upon a moment. Furthermore, the fanciful feeling realizing this was an almost unheard of format the last time these particular threads were woven through one's fragment of firmamentary fabric, then to have it echoed nearly before full flushing of thought...some winking cosmic jest; Observer observed? felt quite a treat today. My sincere gratitude for allowing yourselves to become further entangled with the living web via its digital facsimile.
I’ve often felt the experience of being a part of something else be it animal or tree as if I was experiencing them but have never heard anyone talk about that. It was lovely to hear.
utterly marvelous conversation! this is my kind of tongue, my kind of folks... I feel strong kinship with the both of them, even though I didn't know Merlin before. Yet, being a traditional folk musician and experiential synergist, hexa wizard, poet and wordsmith, I completely resonate with all you were talking about. Just one thought: there obviously is true nonsense in the world, which comes at us as the ancient story of disembodied geometry that teaches us to work with completely abstract concepts of uniform, static cubic space separate from a linear time, in other words think in ways utterly alien to the true embodied patterns and processes that structure our animate cosmos. I would therefore suggest calling the type of playful, melodic, rhythmic sounds that are the irish lilting (or appear as many other vocal forms, from simple ladida to the Sami's Yoik) "freesense" rather than "nonsense". I would really love to have a conversation with both of you, I think it would be really wonderful and I'd love to express my gratitude for the rewilding and resensing I experienced since I began reading and listening to David by offering my experiences of an empirical, embodied, and even taoist body of knowledge of the behaviours, relationships and principles of the spheres that I learned from integrating Davids work with the science and philosophy of Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics, as well as the teachings of Laotzu, Zhuangzhi and Alan Watts... how can one get in touch with you???
Thankyou for freesense! yes, I think there are quite a few us,myself included would like to discuss with them, both, either! lol discuss and the things my sense, freesense, experisense has grown me towards.
Thankyou for all the rabbit holes I'll follow you on! Thankyou @David Abram for Inversnaid, hopkin's poem! read aloud in the very very best version, ever!!!! I was enraptured.
Wow... 🥲🥲🥲 ... wow wow wow... (and nicely avoided the words 'vibration' and 'frequency') Another, but un-finished, poem by John O'Donohue: "I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding"... 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 🌳🕊💚 to both of you...
Wonderful conversation. I recognise something here that I found in Jung, writing on the alchemists - their research, balanced between outward and inward discovery; the ungraspable behaviour of mercury as a substance and as Mercurius, the Trickster, who reveals to us the Self in what Jung called the Individuation process, that makes us whole and balanced. Yes, T.H.White's Once and Future King was transformative when I read it 60 years ago, when I was 15.
Anyone know how to contact David? I'm an amateur mycologist, ecologist and professional magician busy writing my masters... and this feels like finding the tribe
Wonderful conversation - one thread from this tapestry is the notion of permeable liminality - living from 'the edge of the inside' as a homelike campsite for open hearts and spirits like David and Merlin - a quiet, intense joy radiates from the entanglement here....God contemplating God in and with and through ecological communion, open process? Might the plural/constellate form of 'fun guy' be 'fungi'?
I'm just at the 8th minute, but when David describes people waking up to the veracity of the world, it sounds like they are perceiving viriditas - the greening that Hildegard of Bingen spoke of.
I wonder if you could help my. First what a great interviews. I'm a 50 year old guy who's been meloncholic for 35yrs. Quite a sad life . I always knew about the beauty of life .until I took pilisybin as a sacrament. Then I found my part in this life . Unfortunately because of financial reasons and anxiety reasons I've never been able to carry on with this personal growth. I suppose what I trying to say is I'm so overcome by anxiety and financial restraints .I have none . Could you only if you have time pls send my some advise or send my message to merlin.ive always wanted to manage life not escape it but now that's changing. I can afford to grow medicine mentally I'm collapsing. Pls help if you can. Either way from the uk I send nothing but love n peace Xxx
Amazing conversation. Thank you. But, David Abram, if you think that the relationship between scientific empiricism and capitalism is 'unremarked' on, please read Marx and historical materialism generally!
I feel so alone in this world. And yet there does exist a few souls like these here. Thank you
Ah, a kindred soul. Blessings.
Yes, we are blessed in knowing that David and Merlin, these beautiful human animals are with us.
Yeah, I also feel very alone in this. Nice to meet someone like you, if only in this way ❤
My friend pls let's talk . We may find answers.
Love n peace to you n yours always xx
Please check out the Animas Institue if you're in the US, and Embercombe if you're in the UK, and you will find other kindred souls.
"I have wetlands within me"...I just burst into tears at the beauty and eloquence and consideration you both are expressing throughout this most exquisite conversation. Thank you both for inviting us in and your sharing your life's passion with us.🌿
What an enchanting and educational conversation. I am in a kind of heaven.
I so want to hear more about speaking inclusively so that words become music that touches all that is sentient.
This is so fascinating. I am giving some humble classes to kids of the age 6-7y.o. on special Saturday school. I tell them, for example, the stories about stones and rocks and their direct engagement in all life on the planet .
I firstly had my very doubts to dare to do so, as we never being taught ourselves at the university to teach things in that way. I tell them that scientists divided nature on living and not leaving objects for convenience to stady them. But in reality everything is interconnected. This podcast saved me from my doubts as weather I am on a right path. Interestingly, kids love so much to suggest their own hypnotises . It drives them to get purely exited about the world around them, ones they are allowed to participate in finding answers which we don't yet really have.
You have opened a door, where healing, happiness, respect and owe will conduct our does and don´ts... A new era to understand with all our senses and feellings. Thank you so much!!!
Mauro Zappaterra speaks of cerebral spinal fluid as 'the fluid nature on consciousness', explaining the intricate chemical signaling involved. The fluid within the hyphae tubules of the fungal seems akin to CSF. Cerebral spinal fluid bathes and interpenetrates our entire central nervous system, our very apparatus for localized consciousness.
What a pleasure to bear witness to this meeting of the minds. It has been quite the sensation to hear a discussion involving many threads, the flavor familiar, like a favored seat in some sun shined memory, interwoven gorgeously and wonderfully reframed by two previously unheard, and yet not unfamiliar voices. fresh felt dew upon a moment.
Furthermore, the fanciful feeling realizing this was an almost unheard of format the last time these particular threads were woven through one's fragment of firmamentary fabric, then to have it echoed nearly before full flushing of thought...some winking cosmic jest; Observer observed? felt quite a treat today.
My sincere gratitude for allowing yourselves to become further entangled with the living web via its digital facsimile.
THIS CONVERSATION CHANGED MY LIFE!
I’ve often felt the experience of being a part of something else be it animal or tree as if I was experiencing them but have never heard anyone talk about that. It was lovely to hear.
and to see the old man smile b/c of Merlins genuine interest
The sound of truth rings strong and clear like a bell tone.
You fill up my senses like a night in the forest. Like a sleepy blue ocean
utterly marvelous conversation!
this is my kind of tongue, my kind of folks... I feel strong kinship with the both of them, even though I didn't know Merlin before. Yet, being a traditional folk musician and experiential synergist, hexa wizard, poet and wordsmith, I completely resonate with all you were talking about.
Just one thought: there obviously is true nonsense in the world, which comes at us as the ancient story of disembodied geometry that teaches us to work with completely abstract concepts of uniform, static cubic space separate from a linear time, in other words think in ways utterly alien to the true embodied patterns and processes that structure our animate cosmos. I would therefore suggest calling the type of playful, melodic, rhythmic sounds that are the irish lilting (or appear as many other vocal forms, from simple ladida to the Sami's Yoik) "freesense" rather than "nonsense".
I would really love to have a conversation with both of you, I think it would be really wonderful and I'd love to express my gratitude for the rewilding and resensing I experienced since I began reading and listening to David by offering my experiences of an empirical, embodied, and even taoist body of knowledge of the behaviours, relationships and principles of the spheres that I learned from integrating Davids work with the science and philosophy of Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics, as well as the teachings of Laotzu, Zhuangzhi and Alan Watts...
how can one get in touch with you???
Thankyou for freesense! yes, I think there are quite a few us,myself included would like to discuss with them, both, either! lol discuss and the things my sense, freesense, experisense has grown me towards.
Thankyou for all the rabbit holes I'll follow you on! Thankyou @David Abram for Inversnaid, hopkin's poem! read aloud in the very very best version, ever!!!! I was enraptured.
Makes me think of The Balance by the Moody Blues.
Thank you for this delicious back and forth. I’m elsewhere, in Boston, and listening some time away, but felt a part of myself right there with you.
Thank you. Utterly Marvellous.
Beautiful conversation. Thank you.
Absolutely inspiring what a wonderous opening up of life and perception and how to see this ❣
I loved this conversation. ❤️✨🍄
Wow... 🥲🥲🥲 ... wow wow wow...
(and nicely avoided the words 'vibration' and 'frequency')
Another, but un-finished, poem by John O'Donohue:
"I would love to live
like a river flows,
carried by the surprise
of its own unfolding"...
🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 🌳🕊💚 to both of you...
What a beautiful conversation 💕
Wonderful conversation. I recognise something here that I found in Jung, writing on the alchemists - their research, balanced between outward and inward discovery; the ungraspable behaviour of mercury as a substance and as Mercurius, the Trickster, who reveals to us the Self in what Jung called the Individuation process, that makes us whole and balanced.
Yes, T.H.White's Once and Future King was transformative when I read it 60 years ago, when I was 15.
Thank you for this♾💖♾🦋💫
Thank you 😊
Anyone know how to contact David? I'm an amateur mycologist, ecologist and professional magician busy writing my masters... and this feels like finding the tribe
brilliant as always
Wonderful conversation - one thread from this tapestry is the notion of permeable liminality - living from 'the edge of the inside' as a homelike campsite for open hearts and spirits like David and Merlin - a quiet, intense joy radiates from the entanglement here....God contemplating God in and with and through ecological communion, open process? Might the plural/constellate form of 'fun guy' be 'fungi'?
i discovered Merlin while watching ?Neil Degrasse....this was a conversation I truly felt inspired by
I'm just at the 8th minute, but when David describes people waking up to the veracity of the world, it sounds like they are perceiving viriditas - the greening that Hildegard of Bingen spoke of.
Inspirational 💥😇
I wonder if you could help my. First what a great interviews. I'm a 50 year old guy who's been meloncholic for 35yrs. Quite a sad life . I always knew about the beauty of life .until I took pilisybin as a sacrament. Then I found my part in this life . Unfortunately because of financial reasons and anxiety reasons I've never been able to carry on with this personal growth. I suppose what I trying to say is I'm so overcome by anxiety and financial restraints .I have none . Could you only if you have time pls send my some advise or send my message to merlin.ive always wanted to manage life not escape it but now that's changing. I can afford to grow medicine mentally I'm collapsing. Pls help if you can. Either way from the uk I send nothing but love n peace
Xxx
Wonderful
beautiful men reading poetry ? anytime for me ! Thank you for this amazing conversation .
Seems fitting that there are a lot of before/after photos showing mushrooms sprouting-up on Mars.
Merlin is a real treasure
This sings to me
Rememberings. Nice
Delightful
Il tuo libro è delicato illuminante fosforescente verdissimo ventoso salino sabbioso fluido scivoloso fantastico
Amazing conversation. Thank you. But, David Abram, if you think that the relationship between scientific empiricism and capitalism is 'unremarked' on, please read Marx and historical materialism generally!
Please take a few minutes to observe Merlin's eyes while he's blinking🤔 What do you see?
It's called frame interpolation I believe, the video averaging out the frame between a sudden movement.
I had to pause half way through-- there’s too much here for my limited mind, my narrow perceptions to swallow in one gulp 🤪
thank gods for repeat.
...first you empty their minds and cause confusion...then you fill their core with... resolve...Lau Tzu...
intellectual heavyweights
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This guy looks like Shawn Atwood with hair 😁😋
Soooo many commercials.. really takes away credibility of the content when every 5mins I get some corporate advertisement
Medicine
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