on the importance of intuition in our more than human world, plants, animals, minerals and ecosystems experience innate instructions on all they need to survive and thrive. prior to centuries of harm to our bodies, natural habitats and nervous systems under industrialization, colonization, etc. humans all over the world also thrived within complex interspecies ecosystems using our intuitions and instincts to survive.
humans all over the world possessed embodied knowledge of abundance provided by the earth, and had intimate understanding of nature and natual elements. under capitalism and colonization, these forms of intuitive wisdom can seem almost impossible to access much less survive by, yet practices of free and self directed movement are one way to bring ourselves closer to hearing our inner guidance and reconnecting with energies from the earth and universe.
walter rodney wrote that by the age of six, bembe children possessed knowledge of hundreds of different kinds of plants.