The Holy Wild with Victoria Loorz

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Join author and founder of the Center for Wild Spirituality, Victoria Loorz, as she explores the possibilities of restoring beloved community and sacred conversation with All That Is: human and more-than-human.

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    Listening Across Species: What Animals Know with Dr. Vanessa Wijngaarden

    In this conversation, Victoria Loorz speaks with Dr. Vanessa Wijngaarden, social anthropologist and founder of ANICOM, a European research project exploring intuitive interspecies communication across cultures and contexts. Vanessa reflects on her years living with Maasai communities in East Africa, where immersive fieldwork cracked open a radically relational way of seeing the world, rooted in the cosmology of Osotua, a word meaning "umbilical cord," in which who you are is defined entirely by your relationships.  Together they explore what it might mean if animals, land, and the more than human world have something urgent and necessary to say to us right now, and whether we still have the capacity to hear them. Vanessa's research brings together indigenous knowledge holders, professional animal communicators, and hard scientists to ask whether other beings might be participants in knowledge making rather than objects of study. The answers emerging are surprising, humbling, and full of hope — and why recovering our ancient capacity to truly listen across species may be one of the most profound spiritual and scientific invitations of our time. Connect with Vanessa: Vanessa's Website: vanessawijngaarden.comANICOM's Website: anicom.uliege.beFilm: Maasai Speak Back (Trailer)Article (osotua): Wijngaarden, V. & Paul Nkoitoi Ole Murero. 2023. Osotua and decolonizing the academe: Implications of a Maasai concept. In: Curriculum Perspectives 43(Suppl 1): 33-46. Special Issue: Narrowing the Gap Beyond Tokenism: Transdisciplinary Search for Innovative Approaches in the Integration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Epistemologies in Higher Education. DOI : 10.1007/s41297-023-00190-2. Abstract and full textArticle: Wijngaarden, Vanessa In print. Secularization and decolonization of the academe: In conversation with African faiths and knowledges. In: The Palgrave Handbook of Decolonising Knowledge in Africa.Article (lion and cat): Wijngaarden, Vanessa 2023. Interviewing animals through animal communicators: Potentials of intuitive interspecies communication for multispecies methods. In: Society and Animals 32 (5/6): 519-539. DOI: 10.1163/15685306-bja10122. Full textMentioned in the episode: Wiki: Maasai MaraBook: The Little Soul and the Sun by Neale Donald WalschConnect with the Center: Website: wildspirituality.earthVictoria's Website: victorialoorz.comEmail: hello@wildspirituality.earthLinktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspiritualityInstagram: @center_for_wild_spiritualityTimestamps: 00:00 — Introduction03:58 — Interview Begins05:39 — The Land Who Raised Vanessa08:30 — Osotua11:19 — Building Trust in Relationship16:56 — Humpback Whale Encounter17:52 — Wallaby Encounter18:26 — Fasting During Deer Encounter20:23 — Normalizing Relationship21:13 — Research in Animal Communication25:17 — Starting with the Experiential26:31 — Unseparating Professional and Personal31:05 — ANICOM34:44 — Lion Says36:09 — The Theme of the Alive World38:38 — Intuitive Interspecies Communication or IIC39:23 — Conversation with a House Cat43:08 — Restoration of Trust and Earth Power51:01 — Victoria Falls Tourists54:12 — Wonder in the Mountains55:24 — Elephant Encounter57:24 — Changing the Ethics of Relational Research61:39 — Reciprocity of Approach66:03 — Next Threshold68:51 — Real and True71:49 — Wild Invitation74:38 — Credits

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