Singer Nynke Laverman interviews a number of people who inspire her in the context of her new album and performance OAK. She does this together with radio and podcast maker Lex Bohlmeijer. From October 17, a new episode will be released every month that belongs to a track from the album OAK. Guests include writer David Van Reybrouck, anthropologist Jitske Kramer and singer/songwriter Stef Bos.
'The fall of the Donar Oak near Dokkum marks the end of a worldview.' This is what ecotheologian Kelly Keasberry writes in her book ‘Geworteld in Verbinding' (Rooted in Connection). The animistic worldview we held in Europe, in which all of nature was imbued with spirit and the oak tree sacred, was exchanged with the felling of the Donar Oak by Boniface, who came to bring Christianity, for a worldview in which man placed himself at the center.
What did we lose in the process? How do we remember our interconnectedness again, how do we move from the straight line, from linear thinking, back into the circle? Can we do without God? A conversation about worldviews, places of connection, an intense near-death experience, and the source of life: love. “Love is our origin. Without love, we do not become human.”
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