This session in Rewilding Mythology explores the living, breathing intelligence of language before it was bound to the page.

Guided by ecologist, philosopher and course contributor David Abram, we journey into the heart of oral cultures: traditions where storytelling was relational, where every being, from wind to river to lichen, was part of the conversation.

Together with Sophie Strand, we reflect on how writing reshaped human perception, and how alphabetic literacy mirrored language back onto itself, distancing us from the polyphonic world of animate beings.

You’ll explore themes of animism, oral tradition, embodied knowing, and the sacred ecology of speech.

This is a call to listen again and to remember that everything speaks.