What is being grounded?
Beyond the usual meaning, it may also include being claimed by a place or a kind of being, or even a specific loved one of the other-than-human world.
Groundedness signifies having thoughtful relationships that are more web-like than unilateral, where decision-making feels like an ongoing distributive process that reinforces the patterns of creation, and pronouncements are absent—grounded cultures patiently discuss things instead.
Most of us grow up thinking certainty is the goal, that ambivalence is weak. This society rarely gives us a chance to experience the kind of grounded relationships our animal bodies yearn for—to feel that you and your people belong to a place, and are at ease with your role in the complexities of life right there.
The term Regrounding is a nod to the concept of circular time, which we feel is a useful tool to think with. Feeding the soil and future life with our bodies is deeply beautiful—we come from earth, we return to earth…death feeds life.
Regrounding is a religious non-profit corporation who believes that animism is the normal way for humans to experience the world. Therefore, we see that our spirits are most alive through loving connections with the animate world. Our bodies need to see the stars, to hear crickets, to immerse in cold water, to praise turtles and make offerings to ravens.
We advocate for living aesthetically and responsibly engaged with the miraculous and the mysterious of the more-than-human world, especially in the spot where one dwells.
Regrounding promotes human well-being and land protection through relationships infused with love and animist wonder.
Acting as if sentiency is sacred and is everywhere is one way to move into respectful relationship with the world.
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We seek enlivened community connection through caring for land. We help feed the soil and create shelter/protection for our small kin by the ways we cut, spread or stack tree and shrub branches, so that each spot has a story of connection and a sanctity for those who share love for these places.
Is it possible to be in respectful relationship with a place, with a community of life, if you strive toward beliefs—and the consequential actions—that are not mirrored in the symbiotic world around you?
What if it was unheard of to think that beliefs and actions are separate?
Would that be limiting or freeing? Both?
What is being grounded? For us, this term denotes not just the accepted meanings of mentally and emotionally stable, admirably sensible, realistic, and unpretentious, but also of being claimed by a place or a kind of being, or even a specific loved one of the other-than-human world. It signifies having thoughtful …
Regrounding currently has title to 160 acres of rugged untamed land who we call Tule Creek. Our desire to protect this place lead us to forming Regrounding. That story can be found here. We offer the burial of cremated remains at this remote preserve, and we ensure that we bury …
In spite of the diligent work of modern physicists, the overwhelming majority of existence is still a mysterious space. Prior to humans discovering atoms, it seems most of our kind had already come up with millions of ideas about what that vast expanse might be, and even plenty of beliefs …