35. Walking for peace and learning with head, heart & hands // SATISH KUMAR
About this episode
In this episode, Ingrid M. Rieser interviews peace-pilgrim Satish Kumar about his life-long activism and the importance of walking for peace and ecological regeneration.
If you’d prefer to watch the episode, it is available here on Youtube . In 1962 , a young man named Satish Kumar set out with his friend Prabakhar Menon on a pilgrimage for peace that would take him around the world, forever changing the course of his life. Later on, Satish dedicated himself to the work of making peace with nature, as the editor of the ecological magazine Resurgence, and in helping to found Schumacher College, a school for transformative learning. We first met when I did my master’s at that college more than a decade ago. In this conversation we talk about the power of walking and of pilgrimage, about the kind of education we are in need of today, and about whether working for peace means the same thing today as when Satish was young. Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. He undertook a pilgrimage for peace, walking for two years without money from India to America for the cause of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration and social justice. He is a world-renown author and international speaker, founder of The…
More episodes of Forest of Thought
- 40. LIVE: Is a river alive? On enlivenment, animism and nature's rights // ROBERT MACFARLANE & PELLA THIEL
- 39. Birth as a rite of passage // KRISTINA TURNER
- 38. How we honor our nervous systems and cultivate pleasure as a pathway towards health // KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON
- 37. Embracing our cyclical nature // JENNY KOOS [Blood Mysteries pt. 1]
- REPRISE: Imaginations of Control // ANDY STIRLING
- 36. Thinking with plants – on Hildegard of Bingen’s ecological theology // MICHAEL MARDER
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Forest of Thought podcast page.