April 25 – 27, 2025, Kirkridge Retreat Center (Bangor, Pennsylvania)

It is obvious as we face climate-chaos, empire-collapse, techno-conundrums of all kinds (drones as the new soldiers, pagers as bombs, “should we geo-engineer the sky, the ocean . . . ?”) that we need ancestral wisdom.  So yes, we turn to “elders”—especially among our humankind kin, and even our plant-sisters and animal-brothers. But what if the demand of the hour goes beyond what seems to breathe and grow like us?  Our oldest progenitors are water and rock.