This is my take on ancient and intuitive sensory experience that taps into the innate intelligence of the human body, a blend of body compass, Zen Beginner's Mind, a shamanic medicine walk and Goethean science.

The practice asks you to find a place in the natural landscape where you could walk undisturbed for some time, and have an encounter with an element of nature. A true act of lifeworld-ing!

I guide you through a short introduction and the instructions. Attached on the website page is a link to the full instructions in PDF, and listed here in much briefer bullets below.

I recommend listening in full, then using either of the instructions when you choose to do the practice itself.

Abbreviated instructions

· Before entering into the natural landscape, you’ll walk to a threshold place, and stop.

· Here you will physically draw a threshold that you will walk across.

· Once you’ve done that, pause, connect with the land, speak your intention, ask for permission.

· Cross the threshold, and start walking towards where you feel a tug. Be conscious of the way your body can intuitively lead the way. Use the senses.

· At some point, you may come across a being in the land that catches your attention. It could be a spiders web, a stone, a patch of moss, a dead bough of a tree, a stream, a blade of grass, truly anything. Approach, introduce yourself.

· Spend a moment in presence with them, in beginners mind.

· Use Goethe’s Exact Sense Perception instructions –then imagine it transforming. Then release to receive. Let it communicate back to you.

· Stay here as long as feels right.

· When it comes to the time to go, thank this natural being and start walking back to your threshold place.

· When you cross the threshold, thank the land and when you’re ready, step across back into the other world.

· Gently wipe out the threshold door and take some time upon returning to digest anything that may have arisen for you.

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Calling all Lifeworlds listeners! We're finally doing our first-ever Q&A episode, and we want you to be part of it.

Over the past two years, we've been secretly hoarding all the brilliant questions and thoughts you've sent our way, and now it's time to get them out of the inbox and into the limelight.

Got something you’re wanting to ask our host, Alexa Firmenich? Now’s your chance to share whatever’s on your mind. Whether it's a burning question, a cheeky comment, or a heartfelt story, we want to hear it all.

You can email us at alexa.firmenich@gmail.com or use our online form here.

And if you’re feeling extra brave (or just want to make Alexa’s day) send us an audio recording - nothing like hearing your lovely voices!

Don’t forget to let us know if you want a shout-out or prefer to stay mysterious. Looking forward to your contributions!

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Throughout history, many cultures have observed and interpreted animal behavior to predict events and read the landscapes around them. The multispecies lives of our planet weave an astonishing network of information across the face of the globe, a web of knowledge compromised of thousands of creatures communicating with each other, across species, and with their environments.

How we listen in on this collective intelligence? Today’s guest Martin Wikelski is director of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) - a project which has been dubbed as ‘the internet of animals’. Their team has created a global ecological monitoring system, attaching remote sensing chips to thousands of animals in the wild, in effect uncovering and translating, as Martin says, ‘the collective intelligence of life on earth’.

By tuning in to the communication and culture of animals, the project his project reveals the planet's hidden workings with enormous implications for conservation, global finance, and human infrastructure.

We explore many of these forward-thinking ideas in this episode, adding another layer to Lifeworlds’ ongoing question: How do we sense the planetary and see through the perspectives of other life?

Episode Website Link

Show Links:

• Internet of Animals Book
• Article: The Internet of Animals: what it is, what it could be
• Birdcast: Showcasing the spectacle of bird migration
• Movebank
• Whalesafe
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• Lifeworlds: Bioacoustics
• Lifeworlds: Satellites
• Interspecies Internet
• Earth Species Project
• Will Hawkes: Insect Migration

Look out for meditations, poems, readings, and other snippets of inspiration in between episodes.

Music: Electric Ethnicity by Igor Dvorkin, Duncan Pittock & Ellie Kidd

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