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Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat

Posted on June 25, 2026 by Ryan Van Lenning

Field Observation: Beautiful Barbarian (Homo imaginalis/Homo metamorphicus/barbari pulchri) Habitat: thresholds, ecotones, collapsing empires, mountain ridges, places where certainty grows thin, and possibly swells like summer fruit Known behaviors: composting inherited stories, practicing permeability, building altars from ordinary debris, tending beauty amid collapse, occasionally jumping… Continue Reading “Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat”

Category: books, UncategorizedTags: becoming beautiful barbarians, butterfly, compost empire, ecopsychology, metamorphosis, poetry book, the greath turning, thrum

NEW: THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies & the Art of Transformation

Posted on August 18, 2023 by Ryan Van Lenning

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I’m both tickled like a butterfly and hungry like a caterpillar for Wild Nature Heart’s new course/journey starting next month.

THRESHOLD: Earth Intimacies and the Art of Transformation is a 6-week course journey dedicated to tending both our personal and collective thresholds with intention and heart. With the images of threshold crossing and caterpillar-to-butterfly transformation as guiding metaphors, we will deepen our ecospiritual practices, practice being present with the whole of what is at our doorstep, and proliferate imaginal buds for what is emerging.

Category: Class, Ecotherapy, UncategorizedTags: belonging, butterfly, collective initiation, council circle, course, earth, ecotherapy, nature, nature connection, poetry, rewild, rite-of-passage, the great turning, threshold, transformation