Refugia I - holding sanctuary for cultural resilience to disruption
Vložit
- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- This is an excerpt of Charles talks about the concept of Refugia which was the retreat program theme from NAAS 2024 retreat. For more information about NAAS, A New and Ancient Story Network/Community please visit charleseisenstein.org/
Refugia II link: • Refugia II - a message...
USEFUL LINKS:
👉 Charles’ essays on Substack: charleseisenstein.substack.com/
👉 Charles’ author website: charleseisenstein.org/
👉 / charleseisensteinauthor
👉 Instagram: / charles_eisenstein
👉 Twitter: / ceisenstein
This small speech was truly mind opening to me. I couldn't quite figure it out by myself. You articulated the current dilemma so well. We gotta rediscover, alongside our kids, that we are free to roam this earth, but currently are not able because of prisons, that we mostly created for ourselves. We gotta free ourselves and remember who we really are. Much love to all of you freedom-seeking people out there.
Hello Charles..
Cheers from Egypt. I admire your philosophy. I wish more people would follow your inspiration.
Thank you Charles! Here's to the current and future generations of wide roaming, barefoot kids who know the lands around their home better than their parents. Thats the way it was for me as a kid, and I'm grateful my own children have the same opportunity.
Right on! Thank you Charles for articulating what seems to simmer in the back of the mind but rarely is named.
I think I understand what you’re referring to by Cultural Refugia…it seems that what we are really lacking is a sense of exploration, belonging, connection that all of us truly desire, young and old but especially for children.
While growing up through the institutionalized school system during elementary years, I hated sitting in the same chair, same room and having to listen to the same teacher. It was the field trips that I enjoyed the most even though they were far and few between throughout the school year. I remember one outing in particular during 6th grade where all the kids loaded up into the school bus and went to camp out for a week in the woods that had a bunch of cabins. They called that week away from classroom “Outdoor School”. We went on long hikes, learned about trees and wildlife, learned how natures eco systems work. We also couldn’t eat any sweets, oatmeal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and soup and salad for dinner. We learned different games to play with one another outside that pushed our creativity. We also had artwork projects. I remember nearly every kid was in tears on the bus ride back home because we had so much fun and we internally knew how precious of an experience it was. ONLY ONE WEEK OUT OF THE WHOOOLE SCHOOL YEAR, And JUST IN 6TH GRADE!
Speaking of roaming radius, what if the class took a hike around town to a local museum to learn history, a hike to a construction site to learn a bit of math, a trip to an elders home backyard or retirement home where they can tell kids stories about their cultural upbringing. Are kids even “Allowed” to take hikes these days? Sitting in a class each week is awful for a kid. It should be a part of the curriculum that what gets taught is 75% outside the classroom. And no, you don’t get to look up on the internet how something is done, you have to go in person to a place where you watch someone doing the thing you are learning being done in a real time workplace environment. It would be good for the adults because most of them would enjoy seeing some young smiling faces.
It’s a strange thing that we get put in boxes at a young age, then as we get older we buy a little box to drive in around so we can arrive at another box to work 8 or more hours a day, then hurry back to another box.
I think we are much more capable as individual human beings and have more capacity to learn different things than our outmoded way of thinking has lead us to believe about ourselves.
Why don’t we foster a young child’s curiosity, creativity and sense of adventure? It’s not about money. It’s about wanting to be in a world feeling responsive to what going on around you, being responsible not only to your self by action but enticing others to also feel excited about life.
So as far as that concept we are so eagerly fed on how human beings are just “bad”, I don’t buy it. We just haven’t realized our full potential yet but we are starting to because people are wanting a new story. The old story has served its purpose, now we will gradually see a new story arise. The reason I think that is because people are becoming starting to become more self aware when it comes to what is truly important, to what brings us true joy and an enthusiasm for all life.
well said
profound points made...
thank you Charles for your wisdom
you bring hope and change
WOW! That was really really SUPER-INTERESTING!!! I have the great luck to own a small farm in Bavaria, and my children have the great advantage to BE AND FEEL FREE !!!🌱🌲 🌪🐎🐎🐎🌪🌲☘️
Charles. You opened a can of worms🐛🐛🐛in my brain.
I thought that the redwoods were in trouble and were no longer able to reproduce/repopulate in their current habitat due to changes brought about by climate change. I thought that people were suggesting that we move the redwoods (their seeds) to more hospitable environments? Maybe places that used to be refugia in the ancient past are no longer able to play this role. It may be difficult to predict where the refugia of the future may be located. Metaphor for human refugia?
at least the seeds are still available and the species being still alive.
they can be, and are, planted in botanical gardens in various other locations
they do not grow there as tall as in their original habitat...
but one day conditions might change and they might repopulate...
that is the idea...
future is not certain
lets not be too pessimistic
Society will not organically unite again until we as individuals lose interest in our own self-interest.