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Charlie Alice Raya

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This is our world. We messed it up. Let’s rethink & reshape it. Let’s restore our planet, create thriving communities & empowering economies. Let’s reconnect to ourselves, each other & our planet. #resist #strongertogether https://charlie-alice-raya.org

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Indivisible Central New Jersey @indivisiblecentnj.bsky.social · 15h

Protests work against Trump. No Kings 2 is a protest. Therefore No Kings 2 will work.
Let's get ready!

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 8h

GOOD NIGHT 🌙

with these two swans I encountered last Thursday on the beach in Seebad Ahlbeck, Island of Usedom, Baltic Sea.

We are stronger together!

#strongertogether #curiosity #swans #birdsky #photography #nature #balticSea #sleepwell

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 10h

And thank you for the conversation!

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 10h

Thank you!

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 10h

I notice that I’m still in the process of connecting, discovering, understanding, body & nature alike.
For a long time, I was little more than a mind person. While my mind is amazing, it is like pealing away layers on unused sensors, and as my senses sharpen, I see more, as I see more, I connect.

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 10h

No worries.

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 10h

Thanks.

In this video, I found the claim that the tinder mushroom’s components react in a way that if ingested it can balance the body’s system. I’d like to know more about this, but I don’t know which sources to trust on this.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=UX1Z...

Zunderschwamm | Vitalpilz | Bedeutung und Anwendung!

YouTube video by BaumMentor Baumpflege

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 10h

Life is amazing. Nature is amazing. We can be amazing. That’s worlds to discover for people steeped in damaging ideas.

I don’t think there’s anything to accept. I don’t accept that I have a thump. But I can get to know it and nurture a deeper connection with it.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 10h

Good point about healthy nature. Also agree that we invented a lot no one needs.
I doubt that accepting is in our nature and frankly, I wouldn’t want accepting people. I want people who are alive, who explore, think, debate, dream, connect, dance, create. It’s when we choose to love that we connect.

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 11h

By the way, do you know a reliable source on the medical properties of the tinder fungus? Thanks!

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 11h

Can I quote this sometime?

We don’t have to start inventing a new symbiotic system. We have to stop disrupting ecological cycles to live in symbiosis again.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 11h

Not entirely sure what you mean by ‘we don’t need to invent sth new.’ I think we can learn from nature and shape our systems in similar ways, true. But to get there, we need all the imagination, clarity and complexity we can find to rethink and reshape the world we messed up.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 11h

demands, but rather to make it about the discovery of what is and also of what we can reshape in our thinking, interactions… so that we get to the point where what is can thrive and is no longer throttled by us. Hm. Well, I’ll try again another time.

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 11h

dependency that chains you at every step, & then there is the coming together, getting to know and appreciate, and having something grown. Technically that newly grown can lead to dependencies, but it’s something arrived at. Hm. Not clear enough. Let me try again. I fear it’s important not to make

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 11h

‘We see too much human codependency and not enough nature full dependency?’

I think I know what you mean, but my free spirit is in full revolt mode. And I wonder whether my spirit has a point or whether dependency has too negative a meaning for me.
It’s an evasive thought, but there is a

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 12h

We have to stop to live in symbiosis? Typo?

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 12h

and consciously interact, and that interaction makes something new possible, or creates something new. Hm. I’ll think some more about it.
As for marriage, I think it needs a rethink like everything else, and I’m glad I was never tempted to do it.

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 12h

I would call tax advantages a business deal not a symbiotic relationship. But maybe I’m a little too fascinated by lichen at the moment. This thought of something new emerging because these fungi and bacteria interact.
This might be the point on my mind, a symbiosis where two or more parts actively

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 12h

And I talk about waking up, connecting to nature, rethinking what makes our world sick, and creating business networks and communities where people and nature are in a mutually beneficial relationship.

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 12h

it further by creating symbioses between human and human, group and group.
We depend on everything natural and on each other, but we live as if we don’t.

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 12h

‘ Humans break symbiosis they depend on.’

That’s what I mean. Many of us have lost the connection to nature (partially or fully). But we can live in symbiosis, too. I’d guess a good starting point is to become aware of the existing symbioses in ourselves and around us and from there we can take

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 12h

Why do I go on & on about nature?

Because that’s where our future is, that’s what we need to focus on.

No one needs wars.
No one needs autocrats, oligarchs or megalomaniac tech bros.

We all need to breathe air, eat food, drink, bathe, heal.

#restore #resist #photography #climateaction #nature

Branches of an oak tree with sky and bay visible between the leaves.

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Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 13h

Q4: Can I speak of symbiosis if it isn’t lived actively and consciously?

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 13h

Q3: If I am married but have hardly anything to do with the partner is that still a marriage?

Charlie Alice Raya @charlie-alice-raya.org · 13h

Q2: If I damage organisms I benefit of, is that still symbiotic?