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Sacred Presence

A Question About Sacred Presence

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This is a guest post by Andrew Cort. In more primitive cultures, a sacred ‘presence’ was part of one’s normal experience. The gods of Homer’s Greece, for example, were part of everyone’s daily life. The sharp difference that we ascribe to secular matters and sacred matters would make no sense to a Shaman. In the [...]

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How to Learn

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Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. In doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and do not learn. Basho

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The Web of Life Imperative

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Ecopsychology – Educating, Counseling and Healing With Nature I just finished my first course in Ecopsychology through the Institute of Global Education and Project NatureConnect. Tomorrow I start co-facilitating this course for new students as a requirement for my next course. Final Paper – Tania Tyler Our industrial society has caused our disconnection and disassociation [...]

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Change is Inevitable

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Photo by Timothy K Hamilton “If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies.”  ~Author Unknown Everything is made up of energy ~ “information that vibrates”. Colors, sound, light, life, emotions, thoughts, atoms… are all energetic. Energy is constantly in motion and constantly changing. If we as humans were not changing, we would no longer be [...]

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Building Relationships with Nature

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“There is a constant and intimate contact among the things that coexist and co-evolve in the universe – a sharing of bonds and messages that makes reality into a stupendous network of interaction and communication. It is this ‘sharing of messages’ in Nature that keeps it in balance.” ~ Ervin Laslo As I mentioned in a [...]

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Ecopsychology ~ Reconnecting with Nature

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It has been a busy first part of 2009 for me so far. My Reiki classes and practice has been steadily growing. I’m sure that a big part of this is because I haven’t “bought into” the media. Although aware that society is going through a much needed transformation, I have made it my choice [...]

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Rhythms of Nature ~ Spring

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(repost from March 2008) New Beginnings, Growth & Balance Spring Equinox – March 20th – the day when day and night are of equal length, light and dark; nature in perfect balance. A day to celebrate the return of longer days of sunshine and warmth. Spring can also be so much more if we observe [...]

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Seeing clearly

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“Visualize that your mind is a prestine mountain lake. At the edge of the lake is a mountain ridge with its image reflected upon the lake’s surface.” “Imagine that your thoughts are winds that ripple the lake’s surface, preventing you from seeing the reflection clearly, but as your thoughts slow down and the breezes cease… [...]

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