SLP 514: Reconnecting Humans with Nature with Blair Beattie

In this deeply reflective conversation, Blair and Kim explore what it means to restore our relationship with the earth in a world increasingly defined by disconnection. Together, they trace humanity’s historical separation from nature. Rooted in the divide between science and magic and amplified through modernisation, industrialisation, and technological progress.

Blair shares insights from his work in sustainable farming and his personal journey toward attunement, natural rhythms, and cosmological time. From the power of walking barefoot on the earth to honouring solstices, equinoxes, and moon cycles, he reminds us of the simple, accessible ways we can return to harmony with nature and ourselves.

The conversation weaves through themes of human behaviour, societal evolution, and the paradox of progress, highlighting how rules, structures, and even climate narratives can both guide and constrain us. Together, Blair and Kim discuss the importance of self love, intuition, and collective awakening as tools for navigating global challenges and personal growth.

You will leave this episode with a renewed sense of hope, grounded practices for attunement, and an invitation to honour the wonder within and the natural cycles around us.

About Blair: Soil-wise, soul-deep systems thinker — part earth whisperer, part community weaver, part cosmic cartographer.

Rooted in the regenerative agriculture movement, Blair is not just growing food; he is cultivating connection — between land, people, water, and purpose. Work is both grounded and galactic: in one breath mapping crop rotations, in the next, you’re studying planetary dharma a fusion of Indo-Tibetan and Western pyscho spiritual tech — seeing Earth as a living university and humanity as students learning to live in sacred reciprocity.

Blair’s mind moves like a keyline plough: precise, pattern-aware, and always in service to flow — be it water, energy, or story. Whether planning planting cycles or guiding audiences through sacred food visualisations, he blends practical know-how with mythic vision.

For Blair soil and soul are not separate. Healing the land is planetary work, and planetary work is spiritual work. Speaking the language of biodiversity, sacred cycles, and systems change — not as abstract ideals, but as a lived ethic, a path of service, and a call to awakening.

In short a land steward with a poet’s touch and a cosmic compass, reminding us that regeneration isn’t just a method — it’s a movement, a dharma, and a destiny.

His definition of Self Love is: Blair’s definition is through a Buddhists lens.

Love yourself as you tend to a flame in the wind with care, with shelter, with quiet hands. See this body, this mind, not as mine, but as a rare and precious vessel carried through countless lifetimes to arrive here now. Pour compassion into your heart. Not to fill it with self but to let its waters overflow. Washing the edges between you and the world until there is only thing, one breathe and one heart beating. This is self love to know your own worth because you recognise the worth of all beings to tend to your own awakening because the world is waiting for your light.

His favourite quote is: The next Buddha may be a Sangha -Thich Nhat Nanh The next enlightenment will come through as a collective. That is us doing it together!

Links to follow: @the_agventure @farmersfootprintaustralia

Websites: www.farmersfootprint.org.au www.planetarydharma.com

Quotes: My quest – what am I doing here? Who am I? What is my purpose here on earth? I have found purpose and passion in reconnecting people back to the food that they eat, the people that produce their food and in essence themselves. Mother Nature had always been my place of refuge. I always escaped to nature. I felt safe, held and supported. Modernisaton has created a story of separation between humans and nature, leading to an identity crisis. We are divine creatures and here to do a lot more! We are incredible technology on our own. The separation of science and magic 2000 years marking the beginning of commodifying everything from food to human relationships. Attunement is about tuning into the energetic system of another person. It is something children do naturally through wonder and awe. Touch is an amazing congruent for energetic exchange. These moments of connection are always available. Put down the phone, touch a tree, walk barefoot. Human made time structures have pulled us out of harmony. By honouring solstices, equinoxes & moon cycles we can return to natural rhythms. We have an invitation to wake up and watch the sun come up and what her go down. Honour the moments that are outside the captured time frames. Faith and hope are essential tools for navigating struggle. Pain is inevitable but it is also part of