Farm Life Meditations

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Midsummer Cow

“You are a cow”.

In counterpoint to animal meditations and Stanford’s VR Lab’s virtual cow experiment in tapping the knowledge-action gap with empathy, Farm Life Meditations: Midsummer Cow is a 7 minute guided meditation invites you to drop in with a dairy herd in lush summer pastures on a biodiverse farm.

Behind the meditation are the questions: How close can we get to understanding the world from another species’s perspective? What are effective forms for humans to listen to and communicate with other beings? Once we’ve gained deep knowledge and empathy for the web of other beings in our world, how do we decide to what to do?

The first IMA guided meditation inviting imaginative embodiment of animals and plants living in the farmscape.

Silly? Embarrassing? Relaxing? Compassion-building? The first of the collection of farm life meditations offers a felt sense of the social, ecological, and spiritual possibilities on farms.