by admin | Feb 18, 2020 | Biodiversity, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Sacred
There’s a beautiful tree out back of my place. I love its almost symmetry, the way it fans for the sky, maximising on the available sunlight and growing strong, even as we are still in drought, long term. Since the fires, trees have been getting cut down everywhere up...
by admin | Jan 30, 2020 | Animism, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Environmental Activism, Meditation & Mindfulness, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
You’d be forgiven for thinking there were more important things to do, more pressing actions to be taken, than sitting quietly on a meditation cushion. And you’d be right. Sitting meditation is practice. For being in flow with the moment, moving with...
by admin | Jan 18, 2020 | Archetypes, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Elemental, Environmental Activism, Evolution, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
We can’t help staring into the flames. Whether it be a humble campfire, the stars at night, or the glitter and glam of stage and screen, we are drawn to light like primate moths around a flame. That’s why we also love burning fuel; from the humble whale...
by admin | Jan 11, 2020 | Animism, Archetypes, Biodiversity, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Evolution, Music & Art, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
Sometimes we write or think things that we don’t want to believe; we dream of impossible or unthinkable things, we imagine utopian futures and grand possibilities, we fall for wish fulfilment or fall into paranoid delusions. Often such flights of fancy are just...
by admin | Jan 8, 2020 | Animism, Archetypes, Biodiversity, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Evolution, Meditation & Mindfulness, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
When i started the Nature Calling project, it was meant to support us to do more ‘deep listening’ – to wind down our minds from the hustle bustle and to check in with the ancestral wisdom that arises in our psyche and in our bodies, which speaks of...
by admin | Jan 3, 2020 | Blog, Climate Science, Community, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
We packed the kids into the car at 4am, terribly nervous at driving into the face of unknown fire fronts, blocked roads, possibly a tortuous death, but prepared to risk it to make it to somewhere on the other side of this inferno. On New Year’s Eve we prepared...
by admin | Dec 9, 2019 | Biodiversity, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Nature
A new type of seaweed, I thought. Black – I haven’t seen this here before. But it isn’t seaweed, washed up on the beach this morning. It’s ash. We’re 25km south of the fire that has just ravaged over 70,000 hectares of forest between Batemans Bay and...
by admin | Dec 6, 2019 | Archetypes, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Myth, Nature
Being trained to read mythic symbols, i have sometimes erred on the side of caution when it comes to the classic “End is Nigh” predictions. I’ve often felt i was in a similar boat to the IPCC: if we warn people that it’s the end of the world as...
by admin | Oct 30, 2019 | Biodiversity, Blog, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism, Meditation & Mindfulness, Nature
The first bird turned out to be alive, still. Only just though. It was so weak i could approach, nudge, and note its feeble movement in protest as my dog backed away from the scene. The next one was certainly dead, turned up so that you could see its guts had been...
by admin | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Ecosystem, Environmental Activism
A simple three point defence of climate action in the face of current conditions: The drought is biting so deep in New South Wales, that even this nice patch of rain we are now having (at least on the south coast) hardly keeps the dust down. The whole south east of...
