Biodynamics and Returning to the Wild

a reminder to keep some rough edges

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness,
and speak tenderly to her.”¹

Once upon a time, we did not feel like strangers in the world. As children, many of us had glimpses through the veil of materiality that have since been repressed. Collectively, humanity used to have a much more common innate capacity to see vividly through appearances into the peopled interstices. Owen Barfield calls this mode of being “original participation” which most of us have long since lost, estranged from ourselves, nature, and the source of all existence.

But once we could see and knew the true names of all the animals. The Popol Vuh speaks of a time when people could “see through mountains and through oceans. They saw and understood everything perfectly and without obstruction.”² In our quest to pave paradis…