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 Introduction1:55 A Messy Re-Enchantment7:11 No Purity: Towards a Compost Gospel16:52 Ecological Storytelling: Our Role in a More-Than-Human Story25:23 The Sacred Local in a Digital Diaspora31:31 Transcendence as the Cycle of Descending and Ascending36:07 Not Your (Great-Great-Great...) Grandfather's Animism44:39 Reading: "The Animate Everything"52:03 "God" Won't Do: Holism and Generative Breakdown 56:09 Adaptive Storytelling1:03:28 Death and Ferment: Becoming Good Soil1:11:11 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 Whitmanwww.BrendanGrahamDempsey.com Get full access to Brendan Graham Dempsey at brendangrahamdempsey.substack.com/subscribe