By Peter Reason
Learning how Land Speaks
November 17, 2024
Learning How Land Speaks is deeply influenced by the living cosmos panpsychism articulated by Freya Mathews and this perspective has substantially informed our work with Rivers. But, leafing through old papers and files, I remembered the earlier influence on me of Thomas Berry, a Catholic priest and monk who taught that the world has a mystical as well as physical reality and is the primary manifestation of the divine and the primary sacred community.
One thing both Freya and Thomas share in common is that their perspective starts from a view of the universe or cosmos as a whole. Thomas, influenced by Teilhard de Chardin, did not call himself a panpsychist; however, his work, in my view, resonates with living cosmos panpsychism.
This story of meeting Thomas is taken from my book Spindrift, A wilderness pilgrimage at sea.
