Tei Taiyarï | The Forest Knows Where You Are | Sacred Sundays

And as someone who spends a lot of time walking in nature and being with nature, I really resonate with the importance of that because we can walk the same path and see it the same way unless we slow down and see what we didn't see before.

Yeah.

And that idea at the end there, the forest knows where you are.

I chose that poem because I'm seeing that it's becoming increasingly obvious to me that this innate biophobic orientation of modernity is destroying who we are as real humans as true humans and at the same rate destroying the wildness of the world that birthed us and allows for us to be who we are and so that idea of like the forest knows where you are is like the knowing the gnosis that Life knows us.

We are the children of Earth, humans.

We're the youngest species.

Life knows us.

Life lives within us.

It's like the way that a mother or a dear relative knows you.

Knows you in deep ways that you don't even know yourself.

And especially so if you remain intimate with each other over time.

And the thing is, is we can't get out of the intimacy that is innate within us and earth because it lives deep in us.

We rely on the food and the water and the air and all these things.

You know, we cannot live.

We cannot exist without it.

Now, there's a veil within us that's heavy, this shroud where that innate intimacy is forgotten.

It's shaded over.

It's shadowed.

And so in that way, we are not intimate in a real rooted way.

We don't have this biophilic propensity to love and exalt in the glory of being in deep kinship and relationship with all that's around us and sustains us.

So the forest knows who we are, where we are.

We just need to actually slow down, as you said, instill ourselves enough to remember.

Remember.

So

that's why.