How communicating with Nature re-enchanted my life
‘I became too weird for many people’
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— ecofluency (noun)the science, art and magic of communicating with Nature
meeting Nature and other-than-humans as kin and relatives, and learning (or remembering) a language in which one can develop fluency
We’re taking ‘talking to trees’ to another level.
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I first read about ecofluency in an article in Permaculture Magazine. It had been written by Saskia von Diest, a consultant, facilitator, educator, researcher and activist in this field, and the founder of Ecofluency.
She believes that because humans are Nature, all of us have the capacity to communicate with Nature – we’ve just forgotten how to use this ancient skill.
She also believes this two-way dialogue exists beyond all languages and that it uses the expanded spectrum of human sensory awareness.
I remember reading about communicating with Nature for the first time in that article and instinctively feeling that everything Saskia was saying was absolutely true.
It didn’t even seem woo woo to me; it just seemed obvious, natural. Afterall, our brains have extraordinary untapped abilities that we don’t even scratch the surface of in our day-to-day living.