Getting Back To The Garden
We are all familiar with the allegorical tale of the Garden Of Eden, which most esoteric...
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Category: Nature
On how to master gravity
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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Manifesting Your Connection To The Earth
I became interested in the environment before I became interested in Earth-based spirituality....
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My WoodLand Abode
It’s like something from out of a fairy tale, appearing to have sprouted organically from the earth itself or from some woodland nymph’s wild imagination.
It’s tiny, circular, cute in a sort of furry way, almost more like a curled-up dormouse than a house.
Upon seeing it for the first time, the child of a visiting friend asked, quite seriously, “am I dreaming?” and began counting his fingers and toes to establish whether he was awake or not.
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The Singing Wilderness, Reimagined
Rather than landscapes where we do not belong, what if we instead defined wilderness as reciprocal relationships between humans and non-humans that facilitate flourishing for all?
Read MoreThe Braided Way
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.