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Awakening Ecological Selfhood

Awakening Ecological Selfhood

By Jakob (Osiris) Ledbetter

…we live in a sort of intergenerational, cultural amnesia – unaware of the belonging we’ve long forgotten – known as shifting baseline syndrome. Though many of us in the modern world lack a lineage of intact culture to remind us of our ecological belonging, we still carry the indigenous memory in our DNA, waiting to be reawakened.