John Seed: A Cosmic Walk to Discover Your Ecological Identity

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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After almost 50 years as one of the world's leading environmental activists, John Seed has started to see an encouraging shift: "Caring about the Earth isn't just for hippies and pagans," he says. "More and more people are moving from having these ideas to exploring what we can do about them." In this podcast, Tami Simon speaks with the founder of the Rainforest Information Centre and co-author of Think Like a Mountain about his ongoing commitment to serving as a tireless steward of our planet and all its inhabitants.

Give a listen to this inspiring conversation exploring: the illusion of separation underlying the environmental crisis; experiential ecology, or "the work that reconnects"; engaged Buddhism and activism as a spiritual practice; Joanna Macy's renowned despair and empowerment work; waking up a culture in denial; transforming numbness into energy and action; creating a container for safely witnessing what's going on; ceremony and bringing the sacred into our activism; the Council of All Beings practice; gratitude; a guided experience of "the cosmic walk"; Thomas Berry and the call for a creation story that unites us all; and more.

Note: This episode originally aired on Sounds True One, where these special episodes of Insights at the Edge are available to watch live on video and with exclusive access to Q&As with our guests. Learn more at join.soundstrue.com.

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0:00.0	Hello friends. My name is Tammy Simon and I'm the founder of Sounds True and I want to welcome you to the Sounds True Podcast, Insights at the Edge.
0:12.0	I also want to take a moment to introduce you to Sounds True's new membership
0:16.1	community and digital platform. It's called Sounds True One. Sounds True One features original premium transformational docu series, community events, classes to start your day and relax in the evening. Special weekly live shows including a
0:36.8	video version of Insights at the Edge with an after-show community question and answer session with featured guests.
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1:07.3	teachings. You can learn more at sounds true foundation.org and advance, thank you for your support.
1:16.3	In this episode of Insights at the Edge,
1:19.3	my guest is John Seed. This is a to have this opportunity. John is a 78 year old world-renowned Australian environmental
1:37.8	educator, author, activist, artist, and filmmaker.
1:43.6	A recipient of the Australian Government's Order of Australia Medal.
1:49.8	John Seed is the founder and director of the Rainforest Information Center and since 1979
1:59.2	has been involved in hundreds of campaigns and education initiatives that have protected
2:06.6	remaining rainforests and helped humanity rethink our relationship with
2:12.1	nature. Nearly four decades ago, John began
2:16.9	collaborating with deep ecologist and systems thinker the legendary Joanna Macy, and together they developed the Council of
2:28.0	all beings, which is a series of re-earthing rituals.
2:34.5	We'll learn more about the Council of All Beings.
2:38.1	It's a process now that thousands of people have gone through.
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