The Flown Bird Society
an Illuminated Story
Why write another book about our estrangement from Nature? We are waaay beyond everyone being able to have their own little organic farm. Our dominant mindset is that you look around and say, ‘What can I make from that?’
This book says that we can heal our rift by returning to direct experience in a world that is more active, alive, and conscious than we currently think. We draw from thinkers who are exploring this new way of being, and we frame it as a conversation about an older way, animism, come back to guide us. Our protagonists dramatize how this embracing of older ways needs to be upgraded: by discarding prejudices, resolving conflicts with practicality, and above all, fully experiencing the sensuous world that we habitually ignore.
The otherwordly images animate the story and offer a glimpse of the mystery and magic of the Living Earth.