This week Robert Rient is Passing Through!
Robert Rient, a powerful voice at the intersection of activism, spirituality, and environmental justice, joins Passing Through for his first interview in English!
Robert is the founder of the Odra Person Foundation and the visionary behind the movement to recognize Poland’s Odra River as a legal person. He also established the Odra Tribe and organized the Great March for Odra.
Robert is a member of the International Observatory for the Rights of Nature, Save the Rivers Coalition, and the Literary Union Association.
Beyond his environmental and activist work, Robert is an author and freelance journalist covering the climate crisis and therapeutic methods of working with the body, emotions and spirit. He runs the Shamanism School, hosts intuitive and embodied healing ceremonies, Intuitive Story Dance ceremonies, as well as shamanic rituals and ceremonies. He’s the creator of the Peaceful Love podcast and a regular contributor to Sens magazine.
In our conversation we discuss the rights of nature and spiritual activism, plant medicine, ritual, dialoguing with the more-than-human world, and the art of reconnecting with the Earth, spirit and ourselves. I hope you enjoy our conversation.
Below are a list of Robert's books:
"The First Contract. Fundamentals of the practice of shamanism," "Visions of Plants, or fifty medicinal plants and one fungus," "A glimpse Around the world - around yourself," "Witness: Inside Jehovah Witnesses Inside Catholic Poland Inside a Gay Life," "It was about love," and the novel "Jeremy's Spirits" nominated for the Nike Literary Award.