Animistic Raw (Eco)Mythologies

Dissolving binaries, linearisation and cultural absolutism

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It's challenging because life isn't just logical or rational. Animistic Raw (Eco)Mythologies open us to counter-narratives in the crevices of mammalian intelligence. Mourning for not realising that we are part of multiple vast living systems and singularly valuable for this visceral kinship and belonging.

But it's so overwhelmingly tricky to break out of the habit shackles of our individual, culturally supported narcissistic neuroses. We have perfectly incorporated the normative responses and reactions into our metabolic cognition, and perform in the immaturity of absolutist expectations and illusions of control.

But Life’s weaves are based on emerging movements of wayfinding in uncertain waters and their complexity contrast to the current reductionist narratives that imprison, wear us down and suffocate us.

Let's recover paradox and complexity, which frustrates the rational mind that likes everything to be final, clean, and closed. Let's re-member what is open, alive, and emerging, and not domesticated.

In these violent and catastrophic times, it's important to recover this visceral wisdom of complexity in humility, to simply honour the Life that unfolds far beyond us. This is the language of raw and ecological myths. But it calls for patience because it is time-long and intergenerational, as powerful as it is fragile.