
@lukeburgis @ClunyInstitute I'm not so sure we're going to be able to subcontract that function this time round. Ultimately, a 'bona fide' relationship with Reality can't be mediated or outsourced. Wealth won't help: exceptions are no longer for sale. Integration, here on in, for us all, is fully hands-on.

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Beautifully stated. I'm also reminded of Rilke's, "Somewhere there is an ancient enmity between our daily life and the great work", the spirited call to functionally resacralize the fullness of our days and, therefore, our whole world, as a substratively regenerative encounter. N. O. Brown: “To find meaning is to find work. In alchemy, the Great Work of Transformation; transform the nature of work. Labor is fertility. Instead of Gross Natural Product, reproduction. Reproduction of the eternal earth. Ecology instead of economy.” "And labor to be an act of love. Homo laborans, man in labor, is man amans amare, in love with loving, and seeking an object for his love. Return culture to the root; rediscover our roots, the radicalism. The Garden Project.” "Laborare est orare, to labor is to pray. Overcoming the distinction between the active and the contemplative. Overcoming the distinction between works and grace. The Garden Project.” The heaven of earth, made Real. The Third Way.

@reggaj Been teaching folk to raise food for nigh on 30 years. It has never been a particularly popular offering, frankly. And I can't make sense of it but even as planetary eco-social meltdown is hardly a secret, I haven't seen interest pick up one iota. It's a strange world we live in.
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