Writer Sophie Strand talks to Brendan about re-enchantment, the animist revival, ecological storytelling, and the meaning of death and change.
0:00 Introduction
1:55 A Messy Re-Enchantment
7:11 No Purity: Towards a Compost Gospel
16:52 Ecological Storytelling: Our Role in a More-Than-Human Story
25:23 The Sacred Local in a Digital Diaspora
31:31 Transcendence as the Cycle of Descending and Ascending
36:07 Not Your (Great-Great-Great...) Grandfather's Animism
44:39 Reading: "The Animate Everything"
52:03 "God" Won't Do: Holism and Generative Breakdown
56:09 Adaptive Storytelling
1:03:28 Death and Ferment: Becoming Good Soil
1:11:11 Reading: "Confessions of a Compost Heap"
"The smallest sprout shows there is really no death;
And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,
And ceas'd the moment life appear'd." ---Walt Whitman
