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Why is a nonhuman sound image such as whale song so appealing?  Whales, I think, do not manipulate and control their environment like we do, but they consciously express themselves within it. Like both artists and scientists, they are describing the phenomena brought to their brains through their senses.  It’sContinue Reading

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Ritualing is where we truly intersect with the environments in which we live. That is, it is through our ritualing that we create our qualiascapes. When we say ritual is the source of signs and symbols for self and community, that includes the landscapes, and even the ecosystems in whichContinue Reading

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The mind is in a similar relationship to the body as an ecosystem is to a forest or a desert, but unfortunately it is so focused on the human landscape that the body has been thrown out of its natural homeostasis.  I looked at the beautiful trees in the parkContinue Reading