In this clip, number one of ten: – If we are cut off from relations so old in our organism that you are evolved with them, off course we are completely easily susceptible to stress of modern life. -Explain that we can open up our senses again
This is a clip from a seminar called – The Ecology of Perception and Language By: Dr. David Abram, November 5th, 2010 Stockholm, sponsored by Studieförbundet Vuxenskolan and in partnership with Albaeco. Nine more clip will follow the this first one.
Description of seminar: David will talk about his research into the ecology of perception: how sensory perception binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem; how and why different cultures perceive the surrounding earth in very different ways; and on the ecology of language: the way in which our words, or what we say, profoundly influences what we see, or hear, or even taste of the more-than-human natural world around us.
David Abram is an ecologist, anthropologist, and philosopher who lectures widely around the world. He is the author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (just published by Pantheon Books) and The Spell of the Sensuous, for which he received many awards. His essays on the cultural causes and consequences of ecological turmoil have been published in numerous magazines, scholarly journals and anthologies. David is co-founder and director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE); he lives with his family in the foothills of the southern Rocky Mountains, US