I can’t really understand what goes on inside plants and animals. But I try to find out and to reach out, study, observe. Even still, I have to dwell in both the knowing and not-knowing, as listener and translator.
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What is it like to be the river? Close the eyes and sense it. What is more true than being water sluiced over a landscape? To be exactly where gravity has pulled you and no less. To be pulled by the weight of yourself. To carve and resist only at the speed that is given to you. It is possible to jump into that consciousness. After all, there are lots of similarities between you and the river. You were probably once a part of each other at some point in the past, or even now. Is it familiar? Suddenly, the river comes alive in a new way. It says: This is my sensory experience. How is yours?
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There isn’t anyone to whom this story doesn’t belong. We’ve all been touched by violence, betrayal, or intergenerational wounding. It’s built into the scaffolding of the old world that’s dying all around us. We’re at the transmutation point now. How are we going to act amidst the suffering of our world?
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There was an old black walnut tree in my childhood backyard that I was sure was older than the house, older than my dad who grew up on the land where the house sat, older than my grandmother who still lived on the land, as old as the land itself and filled with just as much soul. She was beautiful and dominating and bigger than anything else around. I was a little girl and to me she was massive. Many times I found myself lying underneath and staring up through the branches, or attempting to climb her, or just hugging her trunk because she was big and sturdy and could hold me up without me even trying. She seemed to defy gravity.
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The Braided Way is a framework to see every faith tradition as a strand, braided into a larger whole of spiritual awareness. In the Braided Way, combining spiritual practice from various faiths allow us to explore sacred experience and wonder in forms that resonate with our personal spiritual needs and sacred intuitions. In today’s culture, many people shun religious dogma, but yearn for spiritual connection. The Braided Way allows the ceremonies and practices of multiple faiths to be available without the confinements of cultural dogma.