CRASSH | Magic and Ecology: Entangled Life I David Abram and Merlin Sheldrake
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2021
- A conversation with David Abram and Merlin Sheldrake in response to Merlin's new book, 'Entangled Life' (Penguin, 2020). This talk is part of the Magic and Ecology online seminar series. Join us for the live panel with David and Merlin on 9 April 2021, 6pm GMT/1pm EST, chaired by Dr Alice Tarbuck.
David Abram’s seminal The Spell of the Sensuous (1997) argued that disdain for magic produced, in the West, a distorted rather than enlightened sense of the non-human world.
Merlin Sheldrake’s recent work explores what Abram calls the 'more-than-human' quality of nonhuman presences, and together David and Merlin examine what it means to live 'humanly' in a more-than-human world of entangled lifeforms.
Speaker Biographies:
Dr David Abram
David Abram is a cultural ecologist, philosopher and sleight-of-hand magician whose influential work, The Spell of the Sensuous: Language and Perception in a More-than-human World (1997), demonstrated the parallels between animism and eco-phenomenology and brought non-Western ontologies into dialogue with Western metaphysics. Abram is especially interested in language and has done important work on the ethics of speech and how it relates to the environment of things named. Abram holds a PhD from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and is Founder and Creative Director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics: wildethics.org.
Dr Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist and author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures. He received a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama, where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Merlin’s is a keen brewer and fermenter, and is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and more-than-human organisms. Find out more at merlinsheldrake.com.
Chair: Alice Tarbuck is a poet and academic based in Edinburgh. Alice is the author of 'A Spell in the Wild: A Year and Six Centuries of Magic' (2020).
The full Magic and Ecology Programme can be found at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/29231.
The views, thoughts and opinions expressed on this recording of a CRASSH event belong solely to the presenters and do not necessarily represent the views of CRASSH or the University of Cambridge. 
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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.
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!!!
Makes me think of The Balance by the Moody Blues.
"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.🌿
You fill up my senses like a night in the forest. Like a sleepy blue ocean
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.
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.
and to see the old man smile b/c of Merlins genuine interest
What an enchanting and educational conversation. I am in a kind of heaven.
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.
I so want to hear more about speaking inclusively so that words become music that touches all that is sentient.
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!
The sound of truth rings strong and clear like a bell tone.
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.
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.
Thank you. Utterly Marvellous.
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.
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
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...
Absolutely inspiring what a wonderous opening up of life and perception and how to see this ❣
Thank you for this♾💖♾🦋💫
Beautiful conversation. Thank you.
I loved this 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 😊
What a beautiful conversation 💕
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
brilliant as always
beautiful men reading poetry ? anytime for me ! Thank you for this amazing conversation .
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
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 💥😇
Rememberings. Nice
Merlin is a real treasure
Wonderful
This sings to me
Delightful
Seems fitting that there are a lot of before/after photos showing mushrooms sprouting-up on Mars.
Il tuo libro è delicato illuminante fosforescente verdissimo ventoso salino sabbioso fluido scivoloso fantastico
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.
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.
...first you empty their minds and cause confusion...then you fill their core with... resolve...Lau Tzu...
uum uuum um uuuum um uuum uum um um uuuumu muum umum
Merlin has good family karma.
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
intellectual heavyweights
Medicine
meow