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@SayaniSarkarPhD @nils_gilman “What if meaningful speech is not an exclusively human possession...but a property of the animate earth, in which we humans participate.” - David Abram drive.google.com/file/d/1l6cbX03GBHJEMmgsXwRmzGS8jGKLzFMx/view?usp=drivesdk

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Quoted by@pauljpastor David Abram in 'Spell of the Sensuous' and 'Becoming Animal', leaning into an indigenous metaphysics where, in a way, atmosphere itself thinks. What’s striking is how he treats language as atmospheric - words emerging from and returning to the sensuous world, breath made visible.Quoted by@bearspeaks Chuang Tzu: "Saying is not blowing breath, saying says something." Hillman: "Words, like angels, are powers." Abram: "In deeply oral cultures, the earthly world is commonly felt as a vast, ever-unfolding Story." Story-telling, spelled aloud. Conversation as interbeing, enacted.