Papers by Jacqueline Kurio
River Research and Applications, 2021
A cooperative inquiry was established to explore the experience of a panpsychic world of sentient... more A cooperative inquiry was established to explore the experience of a panpsychic world of sentient beings rather than inert objects, a world in which mind-sentience, subjectivity, and the will of self-realization-is a fundamental aspect of matter, just as matter is a fundamental aspect of mind. The nature of worldviews, the fundamental basis of our perceiving, thinking, valuing, and acting, is addressed and a brief outline of living cosmos panpsychism offered. The inquiry asks, could we humans, through intentional engagement, relate to the rivers as beings, subjects, or other-than-human persons in their own right? How might we engage with the rivers through personal relationship, ceremony, and invocation? What are the possibilities for reciprocal communication? In short, how might rivers speak? K E Y W O R D S cooperative inquiry, experiential inquiry, living cosmos panpsychism, ontopoetics, Panpsychism, worldviews After 2 weeks away, Andrea spends an afternoon visiting her local river, the Little Campbell-or as she has learned to call her, Tah-la-lu-in British Columbia, Canada. She sings to River as she walks, noticing how time seems to have slowed and, despite her excitement, slows her own pace to match. River lies beyond the train tracks; crossing them now, she feels far from daily life, as if the tracks represent passage into a different world, a liminal place both here and not here. Picking her way along the fence edging the beach and the rising tide, she turns a corner and, on seeing Tahla-lu, feels a surge of joy. At that moment, and without warning, a flock of geese fly in from behind her, landing with honks and splashes on the calm surface of the river. Startled at first by this unexpected and noisy arrival, she begins to laugh with delight. This sudden appearance feels heraldic, ceremonial. Andrea feels both included in the noisy action of the geese and honoured by it. She is overcome by a powerful sense of being both loved and in
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Papers by Jacqueline Kurio