In the face of terrorroot deeper into the earthto outwit your opponentroot into the earthto befriend deathroot into the earthto say yes to the twists of fateroot into the earthto see from your bellyroot into the earthto heal the wastelandroot into the earthto let earth community flourishroot into the earthto restore the ecosystemroot into the…
There’s a set of beliefs which states that we are progressively moving towards lighter, ‘higher’ states through a process of ‘transcending and including’ previous states, mostly disseminated by Ken Wilber advocates. There is also a case to be made that life and history does not evolve through a process of “transcend and include”, nor is…
Loss swaggers through the landDevouring everything like some monsterA person hiding generations of ghostsnested inside each other,Obsessed with consuming and survivingOut of control, forgetting what he isAutocracy emerges from a loss so immenseA grief so immense, we forget even words for itwe might just think its “how things are” But whose is that secret voice…
Civilization is rooted in a mythology of fateful monster killing. At the very root of Indo-European civilization is perhaps a failed or incomplete initiation, in which a dragon is slain. Western civilization, and certain other civilizations, are rooted in a pseudo-initiation which invokes the killing of a collective ecological organism, or holobiont. The killing of…
If you want to live from your scarcity-based imperialist, mercantile or feudal ancestors, cultivate an embodiment practice without an enearthment practice To live from your superabundant antifragile forest-gardening ass-shaking community-based ancestors, become the earthbody Descending into the earthbody doesn’t yield a fixed, static imperialist or redundant neo-feudalist identity but a rhizomatic changeling multicultural polysexual, Dionysian…
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Many folk have been told that hell is down below; that “down below” there is something terrible to be afraid of. We were told not to look for bliss, love and belonging down there and to expect hell instead, but this may have been a terrible deceit. As a result of this metaphysical sleight-of-hand some…
To divide in an absolute sense all the Gods, spirits, mythbeings and deities into on one hand, bad “evil” entities such as demons, manifestation of “Jungian wetiko” and archons, and on the other “good” loving shining beings looks sometimes like a helpful strategy, but it may not be. Many modern spiritual teachers have tried this:…
People like to talk about having spirit guides, familiars and fetch beings but what if animals also have human familiars, human tutelary spirits and human fetch beings? Humans like to have emotional support pigs but what if a pig or a bee needs to have an emotional support human? Some humans are more like animals,…
You threw me to the wolvesyou didn’t realize, they were my childhood companionsYou sent me to be consumed by a bearyou didn’t realize, he was my shapeshifting brotherYou left my body to be consumed by crowsyou didn’t realize, I’d fed the crows long agowhen they were starvingand now they will feed meYou sent me to…
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Grief is the road to abundance and intimacy. When we grieve, when we humble ourselves, we open to community, we open to the vast bounty of the earth. When we lose control, when we get close to death and loss we open to interbeing, to receiving, to giving and to relationship. We remember the value…
Where are the ancestors? And what is our relationship to them? In a sense the ancestors realm exists within our ordinary life and everyday reality; the ancestor’s stories can be found in our very sense of visceral sensory grounded embodiment, they live in our blood, our muscles, our lungs and heart, our neurology our mitochrondria…
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If we could see all of the dead around us we might be surprised – in some places the dead outnumber the living. They may walk into your room at night when you don’t know if you are awake or sleeping and tell you there are mysteries hidden in your house and secrets hidden in…
We need something much deeper than just eco-psychology; it is not enough to do psychology, psychotherapy or healing in the context of nature or to do ecstatic dance in a concrete building, rather there may be a need to get on the land and listen to the land’s sentient intelligence. When we sense some kind…
After a period of time bringing awareness to the senses, remembering to see all the thousands of colours in a sunset, to smell the moisture and humidity in the air and to smell microchanges in the weather, to see tiny changes in patterns of light, to hear different the microrhythms and textures within birdsong or…
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Hunter-gatherers only spend about 4-5 hours a day hunting and gathering. There is much larger emphasis on dreamtime, on ceremonies, on being on the earth than in the modern world. Folks in the modern world are dying from a lack of connection with the dreamtime. One of the reason some intentional communities fail is because…
The throne in the centre of the kingdom is calling to you. It does not call to the pretender, the upstart or the usurper. It does not call to those lost in their certainties, pieties and comforting illusions of control. It calls to you. It calls to the ruminant, to the wanderer in the wilderness.…
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When you want to say something, don’t say something which resembles what you want to say but is one step removed. Say exactly what you want to say. Speak the exact words, reach down into your body to find them, into your muscles, lungs, sinews, womb or testicles, fascia, solar plexus and into your gut.…
The word ‘panic’ originated from the Greek word Panikon meaning “fear caused by Pan.” Pan, the God of nature and wildness, is one of the hidden powers behind panic. Beneath panic, beneath anxiety, lies power and wildness. Or to put it another way anxiety is repressed or unconscious wildness. Wildness is the solution to anxiety.…
In the forest at sunset where liquid light coruscates through the pine trees onto the blossoms of heather everything is alive, sentient, numinous and waiting for our playful and adventurous engagement. The sound of a swallow’s wings as it cascades past is a symphony of micro-rhythms and micro-sounds. I smell the temperature and humidity of…
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