Everyone Needs a Little Ayahuasca
“In Peru, ayahuasca is not only legal, it is also cherished and protected as a cultural patrimony,” she says. “I can’t think of a higher honor that a country could bestow on a tradition of any sort.”
Post-Materialism
“Turning off your compulsion to buy massive quantities of unnecessary doodads and trinkets isn’t just about being a happier person and a better friend. It’s also about, very literally, not buying into an economic model that is hurting the planet, and egging on climate change.”
Come Into a Place of Kinship
Philip Shepherd is the author of New Self New World, an exposition about our journey into a head-centric culture, one in which we have no choice but to experience ourselves and the world as separate entities. Shepherd’s message is about integrating our nearly-forgotten body-centered consciousness with our rational, thought-based one. This integration doesn’t deny the…
Asheville Earth Wellness Workshop – Saturday, January 10, 2015
Join us at 7 PM at the Kairos West Community Center for an Earth Wellness Workshop.
The End of the Holocene
“In the beginning, the world was whole and beauty prevailed. Life begetting life until the waters, then the lands, were filled with creatures.” To be alive at this time is to live with and acknowledge the end of the Holocene; the end of an epoch of diverse life bursting forth with creatures representing the unique…
Near-Term Extinction
Guy McPherson synthesizes scientific data about climate chaos and the results are not anything anyone wants to hear. Yet we must, say McPherson and I. The inescapable truth of McPherson’s story about the multiple feedback loops that have already been set in motion, and their proclivity to threaten the viability of the planet to support…
Tuckahoe Creek – Can We Get There from Here?
On the banks of Tuckahoe Creek, just up from its confluence with the Choptank River on the eastern shore of the DelMarVa peninsula, I played the drum and prayed for the vitality of the water. I prayed for the water because it is emblematic – a symbol, and the leading edge – of Earth’s hurting…
Intro to Earth Wellness Workshop
The workshop consists of a bit of a talk involving holism and the relationship between our individual wellness and the Earth’s wellness. A good deal of the workshop is a drum meditation meant to emphasize a return to feeling as a path of alignment to greater wellness. The experience is organized around a framework of…
Cape May
A glimpse into a meditation for the vitality of Delaware Bay. On my way here, I listened to an interview with author Callum M. Roberts. He wrote a book recently called The Unnatural History of the Sea. “As Callum M. Roberts reveals in The Unnatural History of the Sea, the oceans’ bounty didn’t disappear overnight.…
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