Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee

How is the knowledge that is needed to help keep a thread alive, as this world comes to an end and a new one comes into being—how is that going to stay alive? It’s going to be through what is held within the human being and community. Human beings in relationship with other human beings

for me, a practice in spiritual ecology is not just a practice in spiritually relating to an ecology, or whatever you want to describe it as. It’s a way of life in which you are learning how to be in relationship from the truest part of yourself, and broadening that—from the space where we have been focused on that reality in spiritual forms, for a... See more

an invitation to step more and more into experience. We cannot change the world through a mental construct. We cannot change the world through words alone

If we’re able to return to this essence and consciously engage with Earth Time through the experience and language of love, we are able to break free of being a prisoner of linear time and begin to build relationships based on something real. When I say “something real,” I think of love, but you can think of energy that is undiluted and is the esse... See more

we have to move away from the intellectual towards the experiential.

This participation is a form of communion with the living Earth. Once one moves from observer to participant, and you’re engaging as a participant in this space of relationship, there is a process of communion that deepens and unfolds.

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When these bonds are created—these ties are there, this relationship is present—you are then rooted in something that is rooted in place, and it brings us from observing Earth Time to participating in Earth Time. Once we are in relationship, we are participating; when we are trying to create a relationship, we are still the observer.

there is a very ancient tradition that understands that when a human heart, and a human being, holds this knowledge of how to be in relationship in a broader capacity—like remembering Earth Time—it exists.