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Natureza Gabriel

Natureza Gabriel is the Founder of Hearth Science. He is an ancestral neuroscience pioneer, and the principal architect of Autonomics: an animist cartography of the living autonomic nervous system, which he has been developing in collaboration with hundreds of mentors and advisors from 24 cultures for nearly 30 years. He is author of the forthcoming Ground: How Modernity Disconnected from the Earth, Why it Matters, & How to Fix It, The Neurobiology of Connection: Re-Wilding your Deep Nervous System for Wellbeing, Autonomic Compass: Finding Home in your Nervous System, Restorative Practices of Wellbeing, Keywords: A Field Guide to the Missing Words, and the co-author, with trans-disciplinary psychology researcher Darcia Narvaez, PhD, of the forthcoming Restoring Human Nature: A Relational Neuro Ontology of the Ancestral Future.

Natureza Gabriel in Kosmos

Tragic Exiles and the Ache for Belonging


Gabriel's essay explores alienation as a loss not only of home, but of the embodied, interbeing relationship with all of Life. Drawing from indigenous wisdom, language theory, mystical teachings, and early Christian texts, it calls for a return—not to dogma, but to the felt sense of unity and sacred relatedness that predates religion.


Published in Volume 25 Issue 4

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Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

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