by admin | Apr 23, 2019 | Animism, Biodiversity, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Elemental, Environmental Activism, Music & Art, Myth, Nature, Sacred
Animists like me believe the world is alive. It goes beyond an intellectual idea, but it’s more than just a feeling, too; many traditions from around the world recognise the possibility that consciousness flows through the universe, that intelligence is a property of...
by admin | Apr 19, 2019 | Archetypes, Blog, Community, Deep Connection, Meditation & Mindfulness, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
Everyone knows that Easter is based on an ancient pagan festival of rebirth – hence the eggs and bunnies, fertility symbols par excellence, aligned with a full moon of pregnant portent. Historically, Christianity overtook every sign of an alternative...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Archetypes, Blog, Community, Deep Connection, Meditation & Mindfulness, Myth, Sacred
I stood in awe, inside the sacred space inside Notre Dame, after walking the circuit around the building and its impressive gothic architecture. While we tourists gawked, the faithful worshipped, as they did every day, as they did regardless of our other, more secular...
by admin | Apr 15, 2019 | Blog, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Meditation & Mindfulness, Myth, Nature, Ritual
Recently, i suggested that global human society is at a point of transformation, adding that the best metaphor for this is a butterfly emerging from its cocoon: “already transformed beyond what we were before, we have cracked the seal of our cocoon and are...
by admin | Apr 2, 2019 | Archetypes, Blog, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Elemental, Meditation & Mindfulness, Myth, Nature, Ritual
I’ve always felt that the world is alive and aware of us. It’s almost as if, as a child, i could feel intelligence in the sand, on the breeze, soaking the earth with rain and pushing up out of the soil as plant life. Thankfully, i’ve never outgrown...
by admin | Mar 19, 2019 | Biodiversity, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Nature, Ritual
I feel a little tug on my heart, as i find this creek running into the sea in Tathra today. It is the first time it has made it this far since i started staying here regularly a few years ago. Today is exactly one year since the devastating bushfires in this seaside...
