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A Biocentric View of Our Common Home - Angela Manno - ND3856

April 8, 2026

The premise begins with consciousness, but it does not stay in the clouds. The host treats ecological crisis as personal and planetary at the same time, tying mind, body, psyche, and spirit to action in the world. Angela Mano comes in through her paintings. Her icons are not pitched as decoration. They ask the viewer to meet animals and ecosystems as sacred presences, not as resources waiting to be used. Beauty has a job in this conversation. A reflection from Bill McKibben puts Mano's work beside the destruction of the world and the duty to protect what remains. The loss is blunt: species loss, biodiversity loss, and the old human habit of imagining Earth as something under human management. The episode keeps returning to that habit, and to what might soften it. The practical pieces are quieter than the stakes. Mano talks about gazing, seeing with the heart, and letting automatic writing bring up whatever the hand and body are ready to say. Judgment has to loosen a little. The host is especially interested in the odd surprise of writing without trying to steer every sentence. The cards are new in the conversation's timeline. Speaking in January 2026, Mano says they had just been released on the 6th, so she is still waiting to hear how people use them. Circle work gives the practice another shape. The host imagines a women's group drawing cards, gazing, journaling, and sharing what arrives. Mano likes that setting. A group can create its own energy, while someone working alone can still follow a QR code toward people trying to keep animals on the planet. The cards are private, but they do not end in private feeling. They point outward, toward people doing the long work of reversing biodiversity loss. The deepest turn is humility. The host comes back to Thomas Berry's phrase about reinventing the human at the species level and asks what changes when people stop placing themselves above the rest of life. Mano answers from that level. Humans are one species among species, gifted and dangerous, capable of care and damage. The episode does not pretend that contemplation fixes ecological crisis by itself. It asks whether better attention might help people begin the repair. New Dimensions ends softly, with its usual invitation to support the program and keep listening, leaving the question open rather than neatly solved.

As heard by us

A reflective ecological conversation about art, species loss, and the duty to protect the living earth.

Angela Mano's conversation centers on a plain but resonant idea: personal change and planetary change are linked, and a shift in human consciousness can matter.

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When you want ecology, art, and spirituality in one quiet, searching conversation.

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