Re-membering our connection with the rest of nature
Why it's important
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... See more
Murmurations: A New Beginning Dawns
Individual traits are associated with pro‐environmental behaviour ...
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... See more
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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.
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
For Bateson, experiencing our own relational existence — the way we continuously bring forth the world and ourselves through relationships — could help us “unify and thereby sanctify the total natural world, of which we are” (Nora Bateson, 2010).
In Daniel Christian Wahl (2017)
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.
Adrienne Maree Brown • Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
Talk to the birds, trees, rocks – as if they were neighbours or friends. The world around you will suddenly become more alive.
“Connection isn’t about nature in our service, a slave to our needs, a commodity for our use, a sticking-plaster for our stresses. Nature isn’t there to provide us with therapy; that isn’t what connection is about.
... See morefor 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
Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee • Remembering Earth Time – A Talk by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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