by admin | Jan 11, 2020 | Animism, Archetypes, Biodiversity, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Evolution, Music & Art, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
Sometimes we write or think things that we don’t want to believe; we dream of impossible or unthinkable things, we imagine utopian futures and grand possibilities, we fall for wish fulfilment or fall into paranoid delusions. Often such flights of fancy are just...
by admin | Jan 8, 2020 | Animism, Archetypes, Biodiversity, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Evolution, Meditation & Mindfulness, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
When i started the Nature Calling project, it was meant to support us to do more ‘deep listening’ – to wind down our minds from the hustle bustle and to check in with the ancestral wisdom that arises in our psyche and in our bodies, which speaks of...
by admin | Dec 6, 2019 | Archetypes, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Myth, Nature
Being trained to read mythic symbols, i have sometimes erred on the side of caution when it comes to the classic “End is Nigh” predictions. I’ve often felt i was in a similar boat to the IPCC: if we warn people that it’s the end of the world as...
by admin | Jul 4, 2019 | Animism, Archetypes, Blog, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Evolution, Meditation & Mindfulness, Music & Art, Myth, Nature
In Anima, Thom Yorke follows a trail that was set out for his soul when his European ancestors crossed paths in the great forest. For this new audiovisual feast from Paul Thomas Anderson is fairy tale, folks, mark my words. And as a writer who has long explored the...
by admin | May 24, 2019 | Archetypes, Blog, Meditation & Mindfulness, Music & Art
Not all Severins songs are about cosmic power, depth psychology, ecosoirituality, animism and the like. Some are about plumbing. The unrelenting pressures of parenthood, including showing loving kindness to children even when they are unravelling our patience faster...
by admin | May 10, 2019 | Animism, Archetypes, Blog, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Elemental, Evolution, Meditation & Mindfulness, Music & Art, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
Initiation makes us into something we weren’t before. Successful ritual transforms our consciousness, expanding our minds beyond a little circle of desire and gratification, connecting us to the more-than-human world of nature all around us, the ecosystem we depend...