This paper curates four experiential narratives and poetry by the five co-authors that illustrate epistemic and ontic shift from the Modern Western (ModWest) mindset to a holistic, embodied and animistic mindset. Coming from different cultural backgrounds, yet having been systemically influenced by the dominant ModWest views and values, each author has initiated an ongoing shift in consciousness, demonstrating how such transformations are possible. Affirming that a shift in consciousness is not simply a matter of cognitive change but is a thoroughly holistic process, the authors write in autobiographical narratives and poetry to capture and convey embodied and emplaced, experiential understanding and feelings, or ‘felt sense.’ Deep changes in the consciousness, such as these epistemic shifts, take the whole ensemble of “body + mind + heart + soul + spirit + the world” as the unit of change for learning. Through these writings, they sensuously and feelingly, existentially-and-spiritually and discursively explore possibilities of becoming one-bodied with the animate Earth. They call this the re-bonding project through which they address humanity’s first-order bonding rupture between Humans and the Earth community.

本文精选了五位合著者的四篇体验式叙事和诗歌，阐释了从现代西方（ModWest）思维方式到整体性、具体化和万物有灵论思维方式的认知和本体转变。来自不同的文化背景，但受到现代西方主流观点和价值观的系统性影响，每位作者都发起了意识的持续转变，展示了这种转变是如何可能的。作者确认意识的转变不仅仅是认知变化的问题，而是一个彻底的整体过程，作者以自传体叙事和诗歌写作，以捕捉和传达具体和到位的、经验性的理解和感受，或“感受”。意识的深刻变化，例如这些认知转变，以“身体+头脑+心灵+灵魂+精神+世界”的整体作为学习的变化单位。通过这些作品，他们从感性和情感、存在和精神以及话语上探索与生机勃勃的地球合而为一的可能性。他们称之为重新结合项目，通过该项目解决人类与地球社区之间的一阶结合断裂问题。