Mycelium & Myth

Myths must have root systems they can sink back into, to revitalize the soil, and to reemerge with the particular magic suited for this age of ecological chaos and societal collapse.

Jesus Is a Fungal God

Jesus then, is not teaching abstracted morality. He is teaching anarchic fungal, vegetal wisdom. As we learn more about fungi, let us embrace that they have always been here. Beneath our feet. And inside our most popular myths. A polyphonic pantheon tucked inside the fiction of monotheism.

Rerooting mythology and ecological storytelling

We sit down virtually with Sophie Strand, a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology, for a conversation about myth-making and science, compost heap-ing, rerooting Jesus and other historical tales and myths, narratives of domination, power and empire, and more.

Becoming Supracellular

If a cursory study of somatics shows that we think with our entire body, then how much better could we think, if we thought with our entire web of wild kin? I want to think and feel and weep and grieve with my whole multi-species, poly-nucleated mind.

We are contaminated complexities

We sit down virtually with Sophie Strand, a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology, for a conversation about ecological storytelling, more than human communities, rooting in our local ecosystems, becoming supracellular and more.

An introductory note to Rewilding Mythology

Myths are like air: invisible until you realize you live inside of them and thrive or die according to their limitations.

Rewilding Mythology

The rise of empire was in part facilitated by the deracination of local mythologies. As climate collapse worsens, a return to multi-species mythmaking might just be what saves us.

The wisdom of rot against the rise of empire

In conversation with Sophie Strand, the host and curator of our upcoming, multi-teacher online course rewilding mythology, we discussed: the rise of empire and the deracination of myth; the lost art and knowledges of oral storytelling; reframing storytelling as emergency; the wisdom of rot and inhabiting spaces of extinction; queer ecology as a lens to reframe love as ecological; and more.

What is an ecological eros?

Why do we invite relational entanglements with the world around us? What is an Ecological Eros, and what does it mean to queer, to eroticise, to make ecologically intregrous, love? How is death, within an ecological frame, a transition? In this conversation, advaya dives into the world of matter and desire, and rewilding mythologies, with writers Sophie Strand and Andreas Weber.

Composting the mycelial masculine

What if hidden in the soil below the monumental myth of patriarchal masculinity there was a rhizomatic biodiversity of alternative masculinities? What does it mean to create an ecosystem of narratives, rather than uplift a singular story? Looking to the past for ingredients to compost into better stories for the future, Ian and Sophie bring their personal experiences and mythic mycelial systems into a conversation about their own exploration into the myths of the masculine.

Magic as radical embedding in our web of relations

What if magic wasn’t supernatural? What if it was the most natural experience of all, inviting us into inter-species collaboration? How can we begin to understand magic as a way of becoming radically embedded in our web of relations, rather than as a way of manipulating the elements from a distance?

Radical women & stereotypes

The emergence of domestication in human history and its implications

Wielding power outside the colonial paradigm: Oyalogy and Exousiance

Fermentation and its link to the dawn of life on Earth

The Bacchanalia Affair: the beginning of the end of an era

Fungi are the firmament of life on Earth

Hospicing nightingales: human-bird collaboration in the Anthropocene

Augury as disruption to the attention economy

Living beings are constantly queering identities

Composting the mycelial masculine

The way out is through: on Thrutopia

Magic as radical embedding in our web of relations

Rerooting Yeshua as a magician storyteller (extended cut)

Myco, Eco, Mytho: An Ecology of Stories

Myths move

Worldmaking in the dark with Octavia E. Butler

Queering biology