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Abstract: We live in an era of crisis when the Earth itself calls us to reconsider our most basic assumptions. Encounters with the wild world and with wild beings may impact us deeply, yet we rarely acknowledge them as sources for our own spirituality, let alone for our academic work as scholars of spirituality. By exploring how such encounters engage us at a more foundational level than that of articulated meaning, this essay strives to take another step toward thinking through the full implications of a participative epistemology and relational ontology.
Mary Frohlich (Sun,) studied this question.