STEPHEN HARROD BUHNER on Plant Intelligence & The Imaginal Realm, Part 2 ⌠ENCORE⌡ /14
Photo by Jiří Míchal
This encore episode opens up a plethora of curiosities around humanities' relationship to art, creation, and mind altering substances with our guest, Stephen Harrod Buhner.
“Art is an amazing thing. For example a poem, when someone is able to capture something that cannot be captured in words and put it in words. It causes one to have an experiential perception of the world that is not in the words, but rather gather momentum and then land in another frame of reference. This is a crucial element of Art.”
Stephen Harrod Buhner
Stephen Harrod Buhner is the earth speaking on behalf of themselves. He beautifully and scientifically challenges us to give ourselves fully and humbly in our relationships with our more than human elders and kin, he asks us to walk our talk when it comes to unlearning human supremacy and civilized consumptive conditioning through relationship to plants.
Humans have always made things more beautiful than they perhaps had to have been for functionality. We dialogue with Stephen about what is the particular role of art in these times and how humans have used intoxicants to create that which comes forth from spirit and moves through us.
Art allows us to shift. Art acts as a depatterning figure. Art shifts the perceptual frame of the people experiencing it. Art upsets.
Learn more about Stephen by visiting his website.
♫ Music by Mount Fuji Doom Jazz Corporation, Spooky Tooth, and Eric Dolphy
For The Wild is a slow media studio dedicated to land-based protection, co-liberation, and intersectional storytelling. We are rooted in a paradigm shift away from human supremacy, endless growth, and consumerism. As we dream towards a world of grounded justice and reciprocity, our work highlights impactful stories and deeply-felt meaning making as balms for these times.