When I lived in India, I was appalled when I was told there would be no more mangoes until the season began again next year. I was not used to this. Back in the US, I had bananas and apples with my oatmeal every damn day. Continue reading
Deconditioning
The World is Alive!
“Many Indians have told me that the most basic difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that Westerners view the world as dead, and not as filled with speaking, thinking, feeling subjects as worthy and valuable as themselves.”
–Derrick Jensen
Isn’t it interesting that as we become more civilized, we surround ourselves with more things that are not alive? Continue reading