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From my article on Substack. Walk the Land - An eco-therapeutic perspective on attachment theory:
Every living being has a mind of its own
Matthews suggested that the western concept of panpsychism perhaps is the closest we come to the aboriginal concept of Liyan.
“Panpsychism is the view that all things have a mind or a mind-like quality”.
Meaning it ascribes a mind to all living beings, but also to the world itself, as if the world is a being too. And if every living being has a mind of its own, we can have relationships with them and there will be an exchange between that being and ourselves, in a more embodied and worldless way, at least in a less traditional way of understanding the concept of words and language.
Liyan is partly described as a cognitive way of feeling — that is a visceral, body-based, intuitive way of knowing. That you learn from Land and “the more than human” world. And one way of learning it is to “walk the land,” seek a relationship with Land, as an entity of its own.
Read the rest of the article on Substack.