Most “sacred space” articles I read assume the only sacred place a person would want is serene and quiet. Authors prescribe melodic music, diffuse white light, or rhythmic breathing. I have no quarrel with serene places and recognize that with the hectic pace of Western daily life this surely provides a respite. My point though [...]
The Land is constantly speaking and telling its stories. Land has never stopped. It cannot stop, any more than Earth should stop spinning because we no longer rise in the morning dark and call out to Sunrise. The stories sing on and the teaching rituals canter and we are missing it. (Thankfully modernized humans are [...]
Lakes, rivers, streams, tributaries, creeks, waterfalls, leaks, bogs, rivulets, estuary, arroyo, rapids, seepage, whirlpool, eddy, drip, tide, channel, fjord, canal, inlet, brook. Water is motion. Water is life itself. Water is shape-shifter – snow, ice, steam, humidity. Three-quarters of our planet is water; the vast majority of our corpus is water, indeed we may be [...]
Wild Shrine “One of the main casualties of the recent Western ‘development’ has not just been the ecology in the outer world, but the ecological imagination within.” – Peter Bishop Let me share with you a pet peeve of mine. I truly dislike the term “domestic shrine.” This is a common descriptor for shrines that [...]
