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The Woman In The Well

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“Before discussing the 'relinking' of people and forests through community forestry, it is important to understand where the 'delinking' paradigm, superimposed onto Tanzania and elsewhere during colonial times originated. The separation of people and nature has deep-rooted conceptual origins, for example early Judeo-Christian texts explicitly framed humans as exceptional and separate from nature as opposed to many animist religions that placed humans within nature. The conceptual separation is particularly strong in Europe, as reflected in the origins of certain words, with the Latin word foestis originating from a meaning 'outside', as in a wild place outside human control. Such 'wild places' later became the hunting reserves of elites in Europe in the form of exclusionary Royal Forests, 'commoners' were kept out. A few centuries later, during the period of Enlightenment and into industrialisation and urbanisation, livelihoods in countries like Britain are further delinked from nature, The division between [eople and nature has become so heavily engrained in modern industrialised society that 'wilderness' has attained a romantic idealisation.”

HumansNatureEuropeForestsWildernessHuntingElitesJudeo Christian PhilosophyAnimismForestry
Book:Reforesting Scotland 71, Spring/Summer 2025
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“We are conductors for spiritual life. You can be a dreamer and dream by the Spirit of God. If you dream by the Spirit of God you are called a prophet. If you bring forth the Word of the Lord into this realm of appearance because you have received a dream, you are a prophet of God, but there are those who dream by ungodly spiritual power. The prophet Jude calls them filthy dreamers. Do not listen to their dreams or what they say because they defile the flesh which reflects the power that exists in us.”

Judeo Christian Philosophy
Book:Out of the Dust
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