Earnest about nature
The ecological questions are real. We want to protect the living world and model the best care we know how to offer.
The story behind the experiment
About
Earthsong
Earnest about nature. Light about ourselves.
How it began
A village idea raised a governance question.
A few years ago, during early experiments with language models, one member of The Adventure Group—TAG, a group of friends who go on adventures—started imagining Shangralachia: a possible eco-friendly, sustainable village to build together someday.
Planned communities need ways to make decisions, resolve conflict, and protect their purpose. Many durable examples seemed to depend on a central religion or a powerful central figure. Neither felt right for a playful project among friends. Earthsong emerged as a different kind of exploration: could a shared regard for nature help shape governance without becoming doctrine?
Research into nature-based religions and older philosophies widened the inquiry. It also revealed histories of suppression, appropriation, and overconfident retelling. Earthsong has changed as a result. Its public language now distinguishes evidence from metaphor, credits sources, and avoids presenting invented stories as inherited wisdom.
What it is now
A public notebook, still in pencil.
Earthsong is a thought experiment and a technology-tools experiment. It is a place to learn about natural cycles, test ideas about care and governance, write seasonal letters, and see whether a useful philosophy can become clearer through revision. It is not an active religion, a public organization, or a finished plan.
Light about ourselves
Earthsong is an experiment among friends, not a claim to special wisdom. Curiosity and humor belong here.
Facts held firmly
Scientific claims should be sourced and corrected when evidence changes. Observation comes before interpretation.
Metaphors held lightly
Stories and symbols can help us think, but they are not universal truths, supernatural instructions, or borrowed authority.
Companion experiments
Two sites, two roles
Earthsong is the public-facing place for the philosophy, sky calendar, and seasonal letters. Shangralachia is the companion planning space for TAG, with the village ideas and plans the friends enjoy working on together.
Shangralachia is private to TAG. Earthsong can be read on its own, and nothing here asks a visitor to join, believe, or wait for a village to be built. If a reader learns something interesting, does something mindful, and carries forward something positive, the experiment has already been worthwhile.
Visit the Shangralachia entranceWhere to begin
Read it as an experiment
Start with the Codex for the current thinking, or a seasonal letter for one idea you can take into ordinary life.