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Here in both the 11th episode and the first episode of 2023, I reflect on what I’m aiming to do with these conversations - namely to explore, in dehumanizing times and an increasingly virtual world, what it means to be human. Asking: how do we use our innate human ability to be able to walk with a foot in each world (the physical and the imaginal) in powerful and constructive ways?

Through reflections and some of my own story, I explore what reweaving ‘animism’ - the cosmology of a living, breathing, soul-infused world - has gifted me and how it supports an embodied and deeply sacred sense of kinship with myself and life around me.

In this episode, you’ll hear my ruminations on:

• what animism is as a cosmology;
• the culture we’re currently swimming in;
• how a more animistic worldview might help us change the trajectory our species seems to be on;
• how without animism and a more rooted and embodied relationship to ourselves and our lives, we risk using wellness tools to perpetuate or simply put bandaids on our modern ‘illnesses’;

… and more.

This feels like a vulnerable conversation for me for some reason - probably because it feels so important. I’m glad you’re here.

If you’d like to share your thoughts on animism, our current cultural trajectory, or something that helped you recognize and hold things as sacred - I welcome it. 

If you’d like to hear me in conversation with someone, connect me with someone, or ask me about something you’d like to hear me talk about, I welcome that, too.

You can connect with me on Instagram (@wildsacredjourney_kp), or, better yet, email me: kate@wildsacredjourney.com

Happy New Year.