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Rewilding: Dharma as a Journey Home to Wildness, Wonder and Ancestral Ground

With Willa Blythe Baker recorded on November 27, 2022.

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How do we live in these times when human action has accelerated species extinction and ecosystem collapse? How do we understand what it means to be human now? On this day we will explore the power of meditation practice to deepen intimacy with our own innate wildness, to reconnect with the unstructured spaces of the natural world, and ultimately to return to ancestral ground — the places that remind us of the indigenous ways and wisdoms of our most ancient ancestors.

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