{"id":902,"date":"2023-01-24T15:51:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/rootedness-and-reclaiming-god-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T15:51:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:51:36","slug":"rootedness-and-reclaiming-god-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/rootedness-and-reclaiming-god-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Rootedness and Reclaiming God \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is a peculiar existential loneliness that entombs us whenever we lose our sense of connection to the web of being \u2014 the self begins to feel like a twig torn from the tree of life, and something inside us withers with longing. We are left without sanctuary \u2014 a word that comes from the Latin sanctorium<\/em>: a repository for holy things. The word \u201choly\u201d shares its own Latin root with \u201cwhole\u201d and has its Indo-European origins in the notion of the interleaving of all things. When we lose that sense of connection, that sense of belonging to the sanctorium of life, we are left less whole.<\/p>\n

Naturalist and ecological philosopher Lyanda Lynn Haupt<\/strong> offers a remedy for this in Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>) \u2014 a lovely lens on \u201chow to live on our broken, imperiled, beloved earth.\u201d She writes: <\/p>\n

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Rootedness is a way of being in concert with the wilderness \u2014 and wildness \u2014 that sustains humans and all of life.<\/p>\n

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The word rooted\u2019s own root is the Latin radix<\/em>, the center from which all things germinate and arise. The radix<\/em> is the radical \u2014 the intrinsic, organic, fervent heart of being and action. Rooted lives are radically intertwined with the vitality of the planet. In a time that evokes fear and paralysis, rooted ways of being-within-nature assure us that we are grounded in the natural world. Our bodies, our thoughts, our minds, our spirits are affected by the whole of the earthen community, and affect this whole in return. This is both a mystical sensibility and a scientific fact. It is an awareness that makes us tingle with its responsibility, its beauty, its poetry. It makes our lives our most foundational form of activism. It means everything we do matters, and matters wondrously.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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