Pre-Conversations on the Sacred and Sacrifice

In this chapter, Zuzana Vasko, Charles Scott, and Heesoon Bai, with Cary, gather for a backyard garden conversation to address questions they have been collectively pondering. They ask: What is the sacred and what is its relationship to sacrifice, particularly in relation to a time of runaway growth and ecological crisis? How might notions of sacrifice be re-visioned in a way that leads us to communally value the sacred within our shared locales and ecologies, particularly if living within planetary limits requires us to radically shift paradigms and ways of life? This dialogue explores how modes of invitation (rather than obligation) might create pathways of willingness towards communal response-ability. It starts with a re-reading and discussion of the following co-written inquiry questions that Heesoon, Zuzana, and Cary wrote some years previously.