Is science almost done proving we’re animal? I wish it was but I think we’re still in the early innings of a paradigm shift. Knowledge, meaning, spirituality — we have them all because we are animals, not in spite of.

One reason I don’t like to get involved in criticizing rituals, religions, etc based on what people believe is that religion and especially recurring rituals within it are generally not engaged in because of belief or ideas alone. They are engaged in because of affect & attachment.

I wondered back then why following wild paths (multi-species trails made over time) felt like what I wished religion was. It felt like the warp of connection, with living bodies the weft—it felt like the burnished gold catching the light from that tiny stone window.