In this Elder Fire podcast, we offer a ‘sonic body’, to the essay:
“An Ant Colony of One: Coming Into Relationship with Individualism.
A ‘sonic body’ creates a ‘sonic adventure’, connecting music, sound effects, quotes, timing and rhythm to bring the words to life in a way only the sonic element can.
Join us.
An overwhelming majority of the humans living within modern Western culture take the ‘individual experience’ for granted. Like a blazing ball of light and fire in the sky, the feeling that we are ‘individuals’ appears self-evident; as plain as the sun.
From a certain vantage point, it is ‘true enough’ to say that your experience is the only thing that is ‘real’. Yet, of all the puzzling and profound questions that swim within the human experience, by far one of the most convoluted is ‘What is an individual?’ Although apparently conspicuous, it is in fact...not.
This clear-cut notion of a distinct individual separate from all others is a relatively contemporary idea, that many older cultures did not lean into quite so strongly, because they were primarily relational in their orientation, and saw each person, nay, each ‘thing’ as a crossroad.
Yet, if we live in a relational universe, is there a way to come into ‘right relationship’ with individualism?
What would happen if we both reclaimed the indigenous wisdom of relationality and then proceeded to come into relationship with modern individualism...loving it dearly into service to the greater whole?
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I want to offer thanks to the creators, who freely offer their music online, all the songs can be found below:
https://pixabay.com/music/pulses-perfect-beauty-191271/
https://pixabay.com/music/main-title-tribe-of-lions-peter-bamitale-205055/
https://pixabay.com/music/main-title-field-of-war-182675/
https://pixabay.com/music/beats-stellar-echoes-202315/
https://pixabay.com/music/beats-spirit-blossom-15285/
https://pixabay.com/music/pulses-soft-coming-spring-198551/
https://pixabay.com/music/ambient-midnight-forest-184304/
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