Biologist, biosemiotician, philosopher, and author of Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology, Andreas Weber, PhD, joins Victoria Loorz for a heartfelt conversation about reality as a sacred, living process of relationship - the continual desire to give life and what the heart knows as love. Together they explore how trauma causes us to forget our wholeness and how true healing is an act of remembering. Drawing on Sufi mysticism and the writings of Erich Fromm, Weber describes love as “the interest in the aliveness of the other” and names this time of global unraveling as a painful yet essential gift calling us to live in truth. Through stories of rivers, trees, & animals, he reveals how the more-than-human world restores trust, belonging, and courage. Blending science, mysticism, and deep ecology, you're invited you to sit with the living world, listen with an open heart, and remember that you are love, embodied and alive.

Dr Andreas Weber is a biologist, philosopher, and poet and teaches ecophilosophy and ecological aesthetics at the Berlin University of the Arts. He holds degrees in marine biology and cultural studies, earned his PhD in philosophy in with a dissertation titled in English “Nature as Meaning: An Attempt at a Semiotic Theory of the Living” .

Connect with Andreas: 

• Book: Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology by Andreas Weber

Connect with the Center:

• Website: wildspirituality.earth
• Victoria's Website: victorialoorz.com
• Email: [email protected]
• Linktree: linktr.ee/ctrforwildspirituality
• Instagram: @center_for_wild_spirituality

Timestamps:

• 0:00 — Introduction
• 5:54 — Interview
• 7:03 — Living Through Trauma and Pain
• 10:38 — We Exist Only as Love
• 13:32 — Dissolving at the Shore
• 18:20 — Meeting Victoria’s More-Than-Human Neighbors
• 19:58 — Defining the Sacred
• 22:39 — Love Is the Interest in the Aliveness of the Other
• 24:10 — Two Sides of Gifts
• 27:37 — Our Era of Dying May Be a Gift
• 31:37 — Religios Is Remembering It Has Always Been One
• 35:43 — Resistance as Simply Truth
• 39:27 — Truths About You and Your Heart
• 47:56 — Wandering Invitation