Paul Shepard

And there's a number of tributaries that contribute to the situation of emptiness.

The first one we can say began, as Celis Glendening called it, the original trauma was humans separating from nature and moving from what Paul Shepard called a sacramental cosmos into a sacrificial cosmos.

where we were living in accord with the living world.

And all of the stories and the cave paintings, everything talked about reverence.

So grab your teddy bears and give it a big hug or your dog or your cat or the person sitting right next to you and feel lucky that we have these magnificent wild critters amongst us.

We'd like to thank Dr. Arjun Dheer, the Black Bear Coordinator of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Al Stahler of KVMR Soundings, and some wonderful authors, Steve Searles and Chris Erskine, Charles Fergus and Paul Shepard and Barry Sanders.

You can find links to their wonderful books at critterchat.org.

We'd also like to thank Peter Blatchley for his music compositions, Lisa Bjorn for her wonderful assistance, Karen Handelman for our theme music, Laura Brandt for our show logo.