Re-membering our connection with the rest of nature

eco– comes from the Greek word oikos, which means home, and that home is what we always want to center, protect, and grow. That takes multiple forms: Ecosystem is all the relationships in our home. Ecology is what we know and understand about home. Economy is not money or markets, but how we manage the resources of our home. And ecological justice—... See more

The world, the values of the world, are shaped by the choices each of us makes. Which means my thinking, my actions, my relationships, and my life create a front line for the possibilities of the entire species. Each one of us is an individual practice ground for what the whole can or cannot do, will or will not do.

These relationships, when we are able to create them through these practices that we explored together these last few days, they leave an imprint. Because I spoke a lot about imprints yesterday. They leave an imprint that creates a bond. And this bond, over time, leads to kinship. It’s not that first imprint: it might be returning, building that re... See more

And communion—now let’s return to its broader definition—is an act of healing and transformation, a way of being that is needed to reweave the worlds of spirit and matter, to resacralize the living Earth. This is a practice of spiritual ecology. Because to me that is the practice—reweaving the world of spirit and matter through the act of communion... See more

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

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

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