*"Expeditions should work to inspire the next generation to be truly global citizens
by enhancing their understanding of the world"
... Alastair Humphreys
We are all citizen explorers!
Welcome to the Inevitability of Butterfly Expeditions!
Imagination Engenders Enlivenment!
Enlivenment Engenders Embodiment!
"Where attention goes energy flows! Where energy flows life grows"
... Brian Bacon, The Oxford Institute
A culture that actively holds Enlivenment as it’s core organizing principle, and honors the corresponding embedded life affirming relationship values, will, by definition, become an ecological civilization!
... Gary Smith
Gary Smith - The Center for Ecozoic Studies,
New Ecozoic Reader. January-February 2021
“A culture is the set of learned behaviors that governs a group of people. If a culture is learned behaviour, a manner of organisation, then there is the strong implication that one’s own culture could be reformed for the better. It is malleable." Franz Boas - the "Father of American Anthropology"
The EcoSapien Choice
Living into a Continual Reframing of Societies
EcoSapiens choose to model “living into”
• a continual reframing of societies,
• toward more healthful, respectful, and deepening relationships
• among our human societies and
• the living fabric of life that is Earth.
Choosing to live at the ever-changing edge of this relationship,
• EcoSapiens commit to participatory evolution of human societies,
• including structures and enterprises necessary for collective success,
• in a manner that promotes and makes manifest
• mutual “thrivance” with the entire tapestry of life!
The Inevitability Of Butterfly Expeditions*
The everyday art of living truthfully into our (as yet only) imagined world!
Life as transformation
Cultural Composting
We live in a time when we must recognize that ...
Our caterpillar way of culture is dissolving and preparing to die ...
... but is afraid and doesn't know how
Our butterfly way of culture desperately awaits being born ...
... but is not yet ready
Our responsibility then is to simultaneously server as ...
... a hospice nurse and a midwife
... Gary Smith
