| Feeling stifled and restricted from the deep rigor of the academic process, I chose to activate the more creative and wild aspects of my consciousness in order to develop new ways of approaching sustainability. Through a deeply intimate autoethnographic process of rewilding, I created several pieces of art and documented the process of accessing different modes of consciousness in order to balance and release the overly worked rational and analytical parts of my being. Through activating the multiple intelligences that I hold within me, I was able to come up with four applications that I believe can change the approach to the sustainable movement. The four applications when enacted are: 1. Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness, 2. Shakti Energy and the Human Connection to Nature, 3. Play and Imagination, 4. The Return of Magic. The aim of these four applications is to shift the human conception and approach to sustainability so that we may begin to enter a different kind of consciousness and thus develop more creative solutions to the problem our earth and all of humanity are facing. Like Albert Einstein said in so many words, problems cannot be solved from the same mode of consciousness that created them. That being said, the aim of this thesis is to shift the consciousness in order to approach our problems with a fresh, dynamic, and innovative perspective. |
