As always. Headphone Recommended. Welcome to the Infinite Harmony Podcast. Before there was an answer, there was silence. Before the world was divided into subjects and objects, humans may have experienced themselves as participants in an animate world. In Part I of Genesis, we explore animism, language, consciousness, silence and the Garden of Eden as different chapters in the same human story: the emergence of the reflective mind and the strange separation from the world that came with it. Moving through Shinto and kami, Māori whakapapa, Lakota philosophy, indigenous animism, David Abram, Stephen Jenkinson, Byung-Chul Han, Hannah Arendt, Sara Maitland, Paul Kingsnorth, and the ancient Genesis story of Adam and Eve, we ask whether the Fall can be read not simply as sin and disobedience, but as the birth of self-awareness, judgment, abstraction and the questioning mind. The serpent does not overpower Eve. It speaks. And something changes. From Eden we arrive in the modern information landscape: algorithms, propaganda, social media, political division and an endless torrent of language competing to tell us what reality is. Against that noise, silence becomes something more than absence. It becomes a way of recovering perception. This episode asks what language gave us, what it may have taken from us, and whether occasionally becoming quiet enough to encounter the world before we name it might help us remember something we have forgotten. Discover the golden threads that weave us all together. This episode is written and produced by Jackie Dragon. Opening Theme by Kyotea Closing Theme By AhziRa Featuring I hear the Silence by Matia Kalli Featuring the song Created by Sound by Alexa Sunshine Rose Featuring the Song Chidori No kyoku by Satomi Saeki and Alcvin Takegawa Ramos Featuring the Song Green Fields by Brock Hewitt Featuring the Song Fireflies by Ambient Boy Featuring the Song Echoes of Time by AH NEE MAH Live Handpan by Jackie Dragon Quotes from Stephen Jenkinson’s Come of Age Quotes by Ram Dass References to Nurit Bird-David’s Animisn Revisited References to James Frasier’s The Golden Bough References from the Nihon Shoki and the Kojiki References to Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Phenomenology of Perception References th Grahan Harvey’s book Animism, Respecting the Living World References to David Abram’s, The Spell of the Sensous References to Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse References to Sara Maitland’s A book of Silence References to Paul Kingsnorth’s blog “The Abbey of Misrule” References to the movie “The Arrival” References to Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf’s ideas on Language And of course, quotes from “The Book of Genesis,” the New International Version Bible To learn more about the Church of Infinite Harmony please visit our website: https://www.infiniteharmony.org To become a member of the Church of Infinite Harmony visit. We are supported by the tithing of our patrons. You can donate once a month, or as often as you like: https://www.infiniteharmony.org/membership A transcript of this episode can be found here
