With Colin Campbell, Naomi Lewis and Rachel Fleming
This apprenticeship is for those who are called to work closely with the ‘primary text’ of the natural world in the role of seer or diviner.
It was Thomas Berry who said that nature itself is ‘the primary text’ that contains all the instructions on how to live in the world in a state of balance, harmony, and in conscious relationship with those denizens of the ‘more than human world’ both seen and unseen.
In most cases and places however, we have forgotten how to read this text. We have lost our access to it and our understanding of it, leading to a sense of separation from our original instructions, from the lore of the land, and from meaning, belonging and direction. But it is still there within, awaiting our remembering, calling for a cultivation that is critical in our times.
In this deep exploration we seek to re-establish an everyday connection with this field of living and evolving information that is held within nature, within ourselves. We seek to learn the particular ‘green language’ that arises when each of us allows this relationship to develop. We do this through opening our perceptions and our imaginations, our intuitions and our somatic sensibilities to the possibility of a two-way conversation with nature.
There are many paths we can follow, the fragments of methodology and guidance from occluded magical practice and the remaining wisdom traditions of the world. We bring one particular map, a map that originates in the indigenous traditions of Botswana, that together we are translating and evolving for use in contemporary times. We look at how to unfold this body of practice into our lives, and to translate its revelations as guidance, gifts and medicine for ourselves and our communities.
Colin Campbell is a practising diviner with the wisdom traditions of Botswana. Listen to him speak here on his understanding of divination and it’s relevance for our current times.