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Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world

11. Turning Our Faces into the Water

14 min • 15 augusti 2020

Join me for a trip across our favorite reef, connecting with bright corals and colorful fish. That so much dazzling life—invisible from shore—becomes visible as soon as we wade in and turn our faces into the water provides a helpful way of thinking about the world of spirit, or the parts of reality that we can’t measure with our senses. How slicing reality into visible and invisible parts, as the Western world does, is a choice not shared by some other cultures, especially Indigenous ones. How Indigenous ways of knowing, or traditional ecological knowledges, involve not just learning about other beings but learning from them by listening to them, as Robin Wall Kimmerer says.



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