Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world

60. Hui Up and Care for the Land

A morning filled with hope and joy on Maui as volunteers gather at a greenhouse to care for the plants who will help to restore the native dryland forest at the top of Haleakalã. Reflecting on what it means to live in a sacred way. Get full access to Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world at priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe [https://priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

59. Did the People Choose This President?

Wading into the troubled waters of election integrity. There's a new field of study called election forensics that applies statistical analysis to public election data. Careful analysis of the 2024 election is raising some serious questions. Get full access to Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world at priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe [https://priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

58. How Do We Know What Is True?

To stand up to fascism, the most important thing we can do, every day, is to plant ourselves firmly in the truth. We talk today about how we recognize what is true—by finding the place of the heart. Guided by Ilarion Merculieff of the Unangan people of the Pribilof Islands and by my own teacher, we reflect on the differences between linear thinking and the awareness arising in the heart. We talk about how finding the heart means taking a vacation from the thinking mind and entering a place of greater ease and spaciousness, where we can lead with empathy and letting-be. Centering oneself in the heart, every day, leads to clear perception and wiser, humbler ways of living. Get full access to Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world at priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe [https://priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

57. Holding Firm to an Open Heart

Third in a series on living in authoritarian times. Today: staying seated in the firmness of our own knowing, our own heart. We look at three daily practices for support: Touching silence, touching joy, and touching Earth. Each of them helps us declare daily independence from those who would try to control us, building a foundation of resistance from the inside out. And a close look at my own daily practice combining all three: waking up with the birds and enjoying the dawn chorus. Get full access to Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world at priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe [https://priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

56. Thirsty for the Waters of Life

Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated, grabs me hard because her story resonates so deeply with mine. So today I use both of our stories to explore mental abuse or epistemic abuse—attacking the mind of another, trying to control how and what they think. It’s key to authoritarianism. And we explore the 2000-year-old form of authoritarianism in Western history and how it rests on a religious idea that took hold as Rome was crumbling. The fixes we need today run even deeper than education because the academy too is rooted in authoritarian patterns, as Indigenous thinkers such as Daniel Wildcat (Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma) and Ilarion Merculieff (Unangan) remind us. We need a new worldview—one that begins with the knowing inside us, honoring the waters of life within each one. Get full access to Nature :: Spirit — Kinship in a living world at priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe [https://priscillastuckey.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]