For The Wild - December 20, 2024


SLOW STUDY ANNOUNCEMENT - We Will Dance With Mountains： Vunja! with Bayo Akomolafe


Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

113.57

Word count

726

Sentence count

34


Transcript

Transcript generated with Whisper (turbo).
00:00:00.000 Transcribed by ESO, translated by —
00:00:30.000 hello for the wild community ayana here we are so grateful to you for sticking around as we make
00:00:39.980 the transition to our slow media approach and i'm thrilled to share that as part of this we've just
00:00:46.320 released our second slow study with bio okomalafe these slow studies are a unique collaboration
00:00:52.940 between the emergence network and for the wild focused on making the we will dance with mountains
00:00:58.840 course accessible in an asynchronous, self-paced manner so you can embrace slowness and integration
00:01:05.980 in your study. The segments featured in this slow study were recorded in 2023 as part of the We Will
00:01:13.460 Dance with Mountains live sessions attended by over 1,400 people around the world. We have edited
00:01:20.480 the conversations and added supplementary materials so that you're able to go about this
00:01:25.980 immersive, transformative course at your own pace. This course is profound, restful, and
00:01:33.180 thought-provoking. It gives you a chance to sit with Bio's work and absorb not only what he says,
00:01:39.920 but also the spirit of what it means to make uncertainty, cracks, and edges, the thesis of
00:01:45.820 thought. Through it, you'll hear from Bio and a cacophony of special guests, including Sophie
00:01:51.660 Strand, Erezma Medekim, Orlin Bishop, and Aaron Manning. The full package includes eight audio
00:01:59.040 sessions with lectures, practices, music, poetry, and conversation from Bio and his brilliant crew
00:02:06.880 of co-conspirators. These are accompanied by recorded practice prompts from Geordi Rosales
00:02:12.660 and a text-based course book with details on each session and additional extrapolations.
00:02:20.340 For the Wild is deeply grateful to Bio and our partners at the Emergence Network for
00:02:24.820 this collaboration.
00:02:26.080 We hope you enjoy this experience.
00:02:28.360 To purchase the Slow Study, please visit our website at forthewild.world slash slowstudy.
00:02:35.160 I'll let Jordi introduce the course further.
00:02:37.600 hello everyone and welcome to we will dance with mountains the 2024 slow study with for the wild
00:02:53.440 my name is Jordi Rosales also known as Janice your loyal janitor the journey you're about to
00:03:00.800 go on in fact began a year ago when these recordings were originally taken as part of
00:03:06.080 an online course with 1,400 participants from around the world. The questions we ask then
00:03:12.420 have only become more alive and relevant to the current moment that we find ourselves in.
00:03:18.160 This series is a distillation of Bile's recent theoretical work held within an environment of
00:03:24.380 thinking and playing together among friends, of offering libation again and again, and embracing
00:03:31.600 the musicality of demise. In fact, much of what you are about to hear, aside from lecture and
00:03:37.840 story, is music. Before you begin, it is important that you understand that while you might be
00:03:45.160 listening to this course alone or perhaps with a friend, you're actually joining a vast and
00:03:50.780 ongoing learning community of wayward academics, hopeless activists, cranky elders, perpetual
00:03:57.340 stragglers, awestruck librarians, and many others who have given up justice to see what lies beneath.
00:04:04.140 By listening, you are entering a crowded room full of noise and laughter. There are thousands
00:04:11.220 of us here, sharing these inquiries with you. We pray you can stay present to that abundance,
00:04:18.340 even when things feel silent in the immediate world around you. Lastly, a small note on listening.
00:04:24.920 If you want to meet a beautiful bird, then it is unwise to go tromping loudly into the forest calling for one, so they'll likely all fly far away.
00:04:35.880 A more strategic mode of engagement would be to find a place, ideally at the very edge of a clearing where you can blend in.
00:04:45.260 Then to simply sit there long enough for the birds to eventually grow comfortable with you and to allow themselves to be seen and heard.
00:04:54.920 It requires patience and discernment and perhaps even some boredom in order to witness the
00:05:01.840 miraculous. And so it goes with this slow study. Many of the teachings here take time to reveal
00:05:08.960 themselves. Rather than attempting to grasp from them the jewel of their meaning, let it percolate
00:05:16.720 or not entirely make sense and just focus on camouflaging yourself into your surroundings.
00:05:24.380 The rest will follow.
00:05:30.080 Thank you for listening to this episode of For the Wild.
00:05:34.180 The music featured in this episode is Indo Blue by Ganavia.
00:05:40.300 For the Wild is created by Ayanna Young, Erica Ekrem, Julia Jackson, and Jackson Kroof.
00:05:53.560 Thank you.