The ‘big Self’ arises not by adding something onto our being but by subtracting something, by subtracting the fixed solidity of our being. The more expanded ecological self appears when we become fluid and process-like and allow feelings, sensations, movements, mythbeings and the voice of the earth to move through us, as if they are life forms within an ecosystem. The big Self arrives as an emergent result when we allow a larger force of nature move, act and speak through us