BY PEGI EYERS
Spiritual Ecology, Social Justice,
Re-landing & the Ancestral Arts
Come back to your roots! Drawing on cultural studies and contemporary social justice, Ancient Spirit Rising examines the loss of our vital ethnocultural connection to tribe and place, and why there is a trend to borrow identities from other cultures. From the wealth of resources available today, an authentic self-identity can be reconstructed from old/new earth-centered societies, using the timeless values of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) as our model.
When we examine New Age ideologies, we notice that a return to earth-emergent practices can often replicate the same colonial patterns we are attempting to undo. Instead of appropriating from Indigenous people, there are more balanced ways to re-land ourselves, and Ancient Spirit Rising offers resources and modalities for authentic self-identity in the revival of a specific heritage or ethnoculture. In fact, what better place to source the tools and worldviews we need moving forward, than from our own Ancestry? In the wisdom of the past we will find the seeds for the future.
Reviving our ancestral ways may be our best strategy in an era of massive change and climate disaster. For all who are yearning for a more intimate relationship with the land, today’s exciting movements in animism, rewilding, voluntary simplicity, eco-living, and sustainable communities are all found within the pages of Ancient Spirit Rising.
A weaving of analysis, evocation and promptings of the heart, Ancient Spirit Rising offers strategies for intercultural competency, uncolonization, rewilding, restoring an ecocentric worldview, practices for recovering the Old Ways, creating a sustainable future, and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community. With extensive notes and exhaustive references, Ancient Spirit Rising is an essential “compendium for change!”
When we examine New Age ideologies, we notice that a return to earth-emergent practices can often replicate the same colonial patterns we are attempting to undo. Instead of appropriating from Indigenous people, there are more balanced ways to re-land ourselves, and Ancient Spirit Rising offers resources and modalities for authentic self-identity in the revival of a specific heritage or ethnoculture. In fact, what better place to source the tools and worldviews we need moving forward, than from our own Ancestry? In the wisdom of the past we will find the seeds for the future.
Reviving our ancestral ways may be our best strategy in an era of massive change and climate disaster. For all who are yearning for a more intimate relationship with the land, today’s exciting movements in animism, rewilding, voluntary simplicity, eco-living, and sustainable communities are all found within the pages of Ancient Spirit Rising.
A weaving of analysis, evocation and promptings of the heart, Ancient Spirit Rising offers strategies for intercultural competency, uncolonization, rewilding, restoring an ecocentric worldview, practices for recovering the Old Ways, creating a sustainable future, and reclaiming peaceful co-existence in Earth Community. With extensive notes and exhaustive references, Ancient Spirit Rising is an essential “compendium for change!”
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