In case you didn't see my comment on the event with Alastair, herewith. What a great encouragement Dougald. Soil and Soul was also a major inspiration to me, in my work on the Wild Coast of South Africa to support an indigenous community to stop a scheme to mine the ancestral lands of the AmaMpondo people for titanium. Next time you speak to Alastair and Verene ask them to tell you about how they helped me. We followed the same strategy of Naming, Unmasking and Engaging to Powers. It worked. Can't wait to read your book. 😊
32:16 “That whole conversation, for people listening from elsewhere, a lot of of the people they are working with are from Latin America, it sounds a lot like the world of the powerful becoming conscious for the first time that its world too could end after five centuries of going around the world ending other people’s worlds and calling that progress”. Wonderful words!
Thank you. Speaks loudly into my context as a South African activist social worker in the midst of the having to make sense of the passing of the post apartheid "heaven" which now also needs hospicing.
Thanks, John. It's good to hear from you and to have a sense of how far this conversation is travelling and the ways in which it resonates with people.
The switch from nature worship (Paganism) to man worship (Christianity) was always going to be ultimately a sinking ship. Karen Armstrong's short new book "Sacred Nature" is worth reading.
In case you didn't see my comment on the event with Alastair, herewith. What a great encouragement Dougald. Soil and Soul was also a major inspiration to me, in my work on the Wild Coast of South Africa to support an indigenous community to stop a scheme to mine the ancestral lands of the AmaMpondo people for titanium. Next time you speak to Alastair and Verene ask them to tell you about how they helped me. We followed the same strategy of Naming, Unmasking and Engaging to Powers. It worked. Can't wait to read your book. 😊
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“That whole conversation, for people listening from elsewhere, a lot of of the people they are working with are from Latin America, it sounds a lot like the world of the powerful becoming conscious for the first time that its world too could end after five centuries of going around the world ending other people’s worlds and calling that progress”.
Wonderful words!
Thank you. Speaks loudly into my context as a South African activist social worker in the midst of the having to make sense of the passing of the post apartheid "heaven" which now also needs hospicing.
Thanks, John. It's good to hear from you and to have a sense of how far this conversation is travelling and the ways in which it resonates with people.
The switch from nature worship (Paganism) to man worship (Christianity) was always going to be ultimately a sinking ship.
Karen Armstrong's short new book "Sacred Nature" is worth reading.