12. The Animate Everything (w/ Sophie Strand)

Writer Sophie Strand talks to Brendan about re-enchantment, the animist revival, ecological storytelling, and the meaning of death and change.  0:00 Introduction 1:55 A Messy Re-Enchantment 7:11 No Purity: Towards a Compost Gospel 16:52 Ecological Storytelling: Our Role in a More-Than-Human Story 25:23 The Sacred Local in a Digital Diaspora 31:31 Transcendence as the Cycle of Descending and Ascending 36:07 Not Your (Great-Great-Great...) Grandfather's Animism 44:39 Reading: "The Animate Everything" 52:03 "God" Won't Do: Holism and Generative Breakdown  56:09 Adaptive Storytelling 1:03:28 Death and Ferment: Becoming Good Soil 1:11:11 Reading: "Confessions of a Compost Heap" "The smallest sprout shows there is really no death;  And if ever there was, it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it,  And ceas'd the moment life appear'd." ---Walt Whitman www.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com