Sylvapolitan Rising I am a student of culture, and have studied the whys and wherefores of the social beast thru academic degrees (MA and PhD in anthropology), travels to many lands, work among many peoples, and intimate relations with my own shifting ecology...
From Cosmopolitan to Sylvapolitan Modernity and its Discontents Modernity is rooted in an assumed split between Nature and culture, and beneath that, between the spiritual (often assumed not to exist at all) and the material worlds. This rift first appeared...
On Indigenous Consciousness . . . The Sylvan City Equatorial rainforests ring this planet like a pearled chain of evolutionary heat. Direct overhead solar radiation, unvarying climates, and high rainfall, create a hothouse environment crowded with life forms. The...
How We Learn From Plants To Learn from Plants . . . The premise for what follows is that plants have been actively engaged in guiding humanity since our emergence as species, and that we would do well to wake up to this fact and take advantage of it, as we need...
The Human Flowering Creation-Song ‘He who does not imagine in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all’. – W. Blake What follows . . . is a journey thru the Creation-body, aka the microcosmic earth (Gaia)...
