CONSILIENCE
A Companion Blog to The Ash Girl
Consilience is a scientific method of validating a hypothesis across multiple disciplines. The biologist E.O. Wilson reclaimed the root of the word, which means “a jumping together” in his book of the same name. In it he posed the radical notion that the arts and social sciences might be invited to that auspicious table. This blog, and The Ash Girl, is a bit of an homage to E.O. Wilson’s proposal. Each post offers a deeper look into the story, the symbolism, the science and the themes from the author’s point of view (by chapter) and welcomes you to add yours.
In this way we might come to some expanded understanding and shared awe of our half-known worlds.
Echelons
“I fell asleep in the river reeds. I dreamed in my dream.”
Chapter 7 is delirious with dreams within dreams and story within story as Asmeret navigates the very narrow space between worlds by following the darkest days of her life to see where the light begins. This carries us through echelons (layers) of the whole.
One Goat (Under a Groove)
Restor(y)
But we were talking about the hero’s journey. Depart. Initiate. Return.
It has been suggested by those who are helping to re-translate and re-tell some of our dominant myths to be more, shall we say, inclusive, of the under or mis-represented perspectives that as brilliant as Joseph Campbell was
The Goddesses’ War
Once
Once there was a story and no one to tell it . . .
That time is over.