The Lost Spells: A Lyrical Rewilding of the Human Heart

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November 30, 2020

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As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

- Stephen Graham -

The Lost Spells: A Lyrical Rewilding of the Human Heart

"A century after the great nature writer Henry Beston insisted that we need "a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals," observing how "in a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear," Macfarlane and Morris bring us the mystery and wisdom of wild things as complementary and consolatory to our tame incompleteness." More from Brain Pickings about "The Lost Spells" here. { read more }

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For more inspiration, read this interview with Micah Mortali, author of "Rewildling: Meditations, Practices and Skills for Awakening in Nature." { more }

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