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August Lecture - Becoming an Earthling

August Lecture - Becoming an Earthling

Thu

19

Aug

August Lecture - Becoming an Earthling

Anderson Japanese Gardens

Anderson Japanese Gardens

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Thursday, August 19

6:00 PM - 8:30 PM


Anderson Japanese Gardens

318 Spring Creek Rd, Rockford, IL 61107

(815) 229-9390

Anderson Japanese Gardens

info@andersongardens.org

Free

Becoming an Earthling: Finding Kinship with the Inanimate

Anthropologist Clifford Geertz famously defined culture as the constellation of stories that groups of humans tell themselves about their place and purpose in the world. In western culture, with its Abrahamic underpinnings grafted to principles of social democracy and capitalism, the stories we share about who we are largely exclude the natural world. Nature is at most a passive backdrop – the scenery against which the ‘real’ stories unfold, not a central protagonist in the narrative. Environmental degradation and spiritual malaise are both consequences of our lack of a sense of kinship with the Earth. The first step toward developing this sense is to dispel the notion that rocks and landscapes simply are, and instead to see them as records of becoming. Once one grasps this, it is obvious that the world is animate, industrious — and constantly communicating with us if we just learn how to listen. We’ll practice with examples of the landscape around Anderson Gardens.

A walk in the Gardens with Ms. Bjornerud will precede the lecture. Walk will begin promptly at 6PM followed by a lecture in the Visitor Center at 7PM.

6:00 PM Walk, 7:00 PM Lecture | No Cost to Attend | Pre-Registration Required | Limited Spaces Available

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