This is very much a first draft and work in progress.
Please read the blog entry from June 14, 2021 for more details.
More elegant formatting coming soon!
Whole Earth Monographs:
Charting Experiences in the Natural World
The Idea (revised 6/14/2021)
I have been impressed by the wealth of credible information available on the internet for medicinal plants when searching with the word “monograph.“ In an herbalist’s training, the research and writing of a monograph is used as a vehicle to develop a deeper intimacy with a specific plant*. The Whole Earth Monograph is an analogous process - a vehicle we can use to get curious, and then describe the “entanglements” we discover in the Whole Earth Ecosystem - to aid in shifting more of our relationships from “objects” to “subjects,” as we deepen human intimacy with the more-than-human world.
Building a Library
This is a resource that will grow overtime. Each person‘s contribution — from beginners to the most practiced — will bring nourishment, color, and harmony to the whole. You might connect with the maple tree outside your apartment where you’ve been living for a decade, and share your insights with me through creating a monograph. I am diving more right now into the world of lichen, and so I would share my new insights with you through a monograph. This is a tab/page on my The Academy of Natural Rhythms website where we can co-create a library.
I hope you will contribute to the evolution of The Whole Earth Monograph Library.
Please read the blog entry from June 14, 2021 for more details.
More elegant formatting coming soon!
Whole Earth Monographs:
Charting Experiences in the Natural World
The Idea (revised 6/14/2021)
I have been impressed by the wealth of credible information available on the internet for medicinal plants when searching with the word “monograph.“ In an herbalist’s training, the research and writing of a monograph is used as a vehicle to develop a deeper intimacy with a specific plant*. The Whole Earth Monograph is an analogous process - a vehicle we can use to get curious, and then describe the “entanglements” we discover in the Whole Earth Ecosystem - to aid in shifting more of our relationships from “objects” to “subjects,” as we deepen human intimacy with the more-than-human world.
Building a Library
This is a resource that will grow overtime. Each person‘s contribution — from beginners to the most practiced — will bring nourishment, color, and harmony to the whole. You might connect with the maple tree outside your apartment where you’ve been living for a decade, and share your insights with me through creating a monograph. I am diving more right now into the world of lichen, and so I would share my new insights with you through a monograph. This is a tab/page on my The Academy of Natural Rhythms website where we can co-create a library.
I hope you will contribute to the evolution of The Whole Earth Monograph Library.
