The threshold of when we were landscape — For twenty years, I’ve been working with people and places, and I also write fabulated tales (1) from pre-agrarian realities, echoing whispers from the land, recollecting shamanic ancient ways of life in the Iberian Peninsula. These contextual stories are not escapes from the perilous times we live in. On the…

The Last Guardian of the Rock-Womb — Here in the liminal space between land and tides, the tattooed Priestess protects life’s transitions, singing incantations that evoke the primal power of the salty waters and the rocky ground, while the smoky embers keep the wild threshold alive. The ancient caves she guards were carved manually into the abyss…

In the romantic modern-urban narrative, Nature is often an escape, a refuge to escape the intensity of Life, schedules, responsibilities, and to-dos. …

Part II — [continuation of this article] Radical Imagination A place is always rich because it accompanies us all our lives, and we can choose to enjoy its learnings, meanings, and wisdom, for landscapes are eternally dynamic and hence the importance of the radical imagination. Today’s imagination is highly neglected, depreciated, invalidated, and even an…

Co-creation living web — Recently, the term Co-Creation has been exiled and mutilated by the increasingly literal and superficial modern “wellness” and “spirituality” industry, a billion-dollar business that promises foolproof methods for achieving success quickly, in a conception of pseudo-reality and illusions of uniquely human triumphs. It’s a movement that isolates us in the…

Life Prayer🫀 ⛰ We remember the poly-poetic, biological, and ecological perspectives of who we are. ⛰ We breathe in deep relationship, every moment. ⛰ We are so much and have so much to remember and re-create, both internal and external myths. ⛰ We responsibly make room in our internal narratives to embrace the stories and…

US journalist Dahr Jamail recalls the “disease of exploitation” in the preface to Carolyn Baker’s book Undaunted: Living Fiercely into Climate Meltdown in an Authoritarian World. Also called cannibal pathology or wétiko (a term used by Native American groups — wétiko for the Algonquin, windigo for the Ojibwa). This term…

The calling to dive through Deep time, Deep ecology, Depth psychology The need to submerge in a superficial culture Transcend transcendence Just return from the beyond Arrive Here In hybrid myth whispering In porous layering Through prophetic cross stitching Knotting complexity threads Submerging into the living and ancient chthonic matrixes Emerging…

In the book Traditional Tales of the Portuguese People by Teófilo Braga, there are many popular and traditional Portuguese folktales collected from oral accounts from rural areas. Two short but significant traditional Christian folktales are indeed very telling. …