“To address colonialism at its molecular root – within the depths of our neurophysiological writing and the patterns of our affective and libidinal attachments – requires nothing short of literal and metaphorical neurogenesis, the literal creation of new neurons and neural connections in our nervous system, and the rewiring of our conditioned cognitive, affective, and relational circuits away from the entrenched patterns of superiority and separability of modernity. 

Neurogenesis involves cultivating capacities for metabolizing complexity without defaulting to binaries, certainty, or reactivity. Instead, we are called to inhabit a different grammar – one that does not rely on the performance of self-righteousness but on a visceral responsibility rooted in our entanglement with the whole. This responsibility does not arise from obligation, fear, or self-interest but from a deep and felt sense of entanglement with everything, everywhere, and everywhen – the whole-shebang. Entanglement with the whole-shebang is not simply a philosophical or spiritual concept but a metabolic reality, requiring us to cultivate a different kind of relationship with matter, motion, and mystery, as well as knowledge, power, and action.

An entangled politics of healing and wellbeing not grounded in the 7As and 7Es requires attunement to nonhuman intelligence and the rhythms and flows of life that extend beyond human-centered interests. It involves slowing down and clearing away distractions to honor the factuality of entanglement and to truly listen to the Land – not just as a concept but as something living within our bodies and everything around us – so that the Land can dream through us and shape us.”
~Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, Outgrowing Modernity, pg 50.