ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on South Africa's Grounding, by engaging naturally and communally with Ian Player's Zululand Wilderness, Shadow and Soul, Afrikaaner Laurens van der Post's Dark Eye of Africa, Ian McCallum's Ecological Intelligence as well as ultimately Cormac Cullinan's Wild Law-and-Earth Jurisprudence. All modern day 'bushmen' as it were, before emerging, culturally and spiritually, with South African-Hawaian political scientist, Louis Herman's Future Primal. The bushman makes gods of all the animals that surround him; the Hottentots kneel to an insect, the praying mantis; the Bantu listens to the spirits of his ancestors in the roar of the lion and in the noise of his cattle stirring. Probably all human communities once regulated themselves with the purpose of ensuring that their members lived in accordance with the requirements of the wider ecological community. The need for recognition of the living reality of place, of earth and of myth exists deeply in Africa.
