“What happens when we try to give up our anthropocentrism and give back, like so many jewels, what we previously imagined had made us so exceptional? Can we take that leap in the spirit of 'primal trust?' As many animist traditions have known so well, to give--or to gift--is also to receive, and if the human is more like a landscape or an ecology than a de-worlded and disembodied Cartesian ego, then it is only through this process of de-centering ourselves that we are are returned to ourselves, recast with an unbounded clarity and a new strength of spirit. When we take this primal leap of trust--an open hand, a trembling 'yes' to the world in relation--we are in a far better position to contemplate what gifts our species might give back to the world.”

- Jeremy Johnson, excerpt from Fragments of an Integral Future: Essays on Time, Ecology, and a New Worldview

(Artist: Kayoko Kimura)