Supracellular: A Meditation – Sophie Strand

Over the next month we'll be sharing four stories in partnership
with the Center for Humans and Nature. In this first one, author
Sophie Strand uses her imagination to feel herself as part of the
more-than-human world—as river, hummingbird, and mycelial network.
Opening herself up to a “supracellular” state, she practices
letting her mind leak beyond the bounds of individual consciousness
and through the threads of relation that she shares with her
ecosystem to experience being not a siloed self, but a web of
interconnectivity. What empathy might take root and grow, she asks,
when we practice thinking like this—when we imagine our
consciousness to extend far beyond the confines of our own bodies?
Read the essay. Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath. Learn more
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