The Miracle of We ~ Reclaiming Our EcoSpiritual Roots
“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Rich's many numinous experiences while wandering alone in the wild have inspired him to teach the importance of reclaiming the lost capacity for inter-species communication common to early indigenous people, a capacity that can lead to ever deepening care and compassionate action for both the human world and the natural world. 

The subject of his doctoral dissertation, titled, The Miracle of We: A Post-Rational Animism, examines the claim of Dr. George Washington Carver, “Anything will speak to you if you love it enough.”  There he demonstrated the importance of reaching our greater human potentials by developing trans-rational awareness and knowing. As a research based stage of higher human development, trans-rational awareness is a capacity of the heart, not of the head, allowing for inter-species and multidimensional communication. It is through developing this capacity and healing our species wide narcissism and autism that Rich believes we will find our way forward and come to truly know; "We are all in this together."