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...
by admin | Aug 21, 2019 | Blog, Climate Science, Community, Consciousness, Deep Connection, Environmental Activism, Meditation & Mindfulness, Myth, Nature, Ritual, Sacred
How do we keep plugging away when the odds are against us? Whether we are environmental activists calling for climate justice or dealing with our own inner issues and challenges in life, we need to take care of ourselves if we want to keep going.This simple practice...
by admin | Aug 20, 2019 | Animism, Biodiversity, Blog, Consciousness, Ecosystem, Nature
The dead wombat has been there for a couple of days now. The stench tells the story, as do the flies. The painted stripe down its back is another thing – a sign to those who care, that this one has been checked. Its pouch is empty; no babies need to be rescued...
