Vol. 7: Seeds and Structures

Through physical, metaphysical, and symbolic perspectives, our seventh print volume seeks the kinds of seeds and structures we will need to embody a new ecological consciousness. Weaving the practical with the esoteric to explore spiritual ecology as an emerging ontology, it reimagines our most fundamental bodies of knowledge, investigates more-than-human structures we can emulate, and looks to ancient spiritual systems that recognize the Earth as animate and alive, and not separate from the Divine.

Within this edition you’ll find stories of seed-saving, indigenous seeds, buildings made of seaweed, the radical systems thinking of Buckminster Fuller, and Masanobu Fukuoka’s “do-nothing” approach to agriculture; essays on cultural memories encoded in gourds, imaginal seeds for the future, and serotiny as a symbol for our time of eco-collapse; and conversations with scientists working with forests, mycelial networks, and plant communication.