Kristina’s talk is called “Redeeming the Wasteland”
We are in a wasteland ecology. Both externally and internally. The spiritual emptiness, as T. S. Eliot’s poem “The Waste Land” suggests. The land is ravaged, there’s increasing desertification, ocean acidification, the forests are being decimated, and wildlife are dying. We can no longer separate the individual from the collective. All life breathes together. It’s a symbiotic journey.
The wasteland is not just the metaphor of an inner desert, but a world in which barren desolateness is visible all around us. So how do we redeem the inner wasteland? And reawaken a sense of awe, wonder, and reverence for the natural world?
First, we must question why and how the mechanical view of the world came into dominance. When did we eradicate the perception of earth, nature, or matter as sentient? Second, it requires sensing the earth and nature as enspirited, and enquiring how we each individually engage with the world’s aliveness. How do we perceive life in a sacred, animated, ensouled world? Which are the myths that exemplify nature’s self-revealing aliveness? And how can we embody mythic wisdom to experience the soul consciousness of nature?
About Kristina
Kristina is recognized as one of the world’s top female futurists and is also an archetypal consultant and author. Her work focuses on archetypal and mythic patterns and the patterning of nature’s rhythms and their influence on creativity, innovation, and leadership.
To hear Kristina’s talk and many others, join us at the Mythologium!
The Mythologium is a conference and retreat for mythologists and friends of myth, held July 29 – 31 via Zoom in the Pacific time zone.