For a while on my blog we’ve been talking about delusions of separateness and the pathologies it creates. What I’ve been thinking about lately is: what caused this initial delusion of separation from the rest of the world? What was that switch? A few have identified some of the trends, ideologies, and philosophies that push [...]

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From an interview by Derrick Jensen with Thomas Berry:
“How does the wind speak to us? A biting wind on a winter’s day tells the person of harshness and the challenge of existence. It wants to make a person strong. And the softness of a summer breeze tells us of the compassionate dimension of the universe.
“People [...]

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Why are we paying attention to interactions with other species?
By paying attention to how we communication and interact with other-than-human persons around us, we are helping to create emergent co-intelligent system in our bioregions–and ultimately, globally.
A natural system evolves and merges with larger supersystem when information or intelligence on that level is integrated. It then [...]

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(by SallyVon Vleck in Issue 5 of Gatherings)

The Council of All Beings is a ritual that grew out of the Despair and Empowerment work and the philosophy of deep ecology of Joanna Macy, Jonathon Seed and others. The purpose of this ritual is to look at the world through another species’ eyes and share this [...]

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All that exists lives
All that lives is worthy of respect
You don’t have to like what you respect
Not liking someone is no reason for not respecting them
Respecting someone is no reason for not eating them
Reasons are best worked out in relationship – especially if you are looking for reasons to eat someone – or if you [...]

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Check it out….it’s in Second Creation magazine out of Australia.
You can download it in PDF form here:
www.tortuga.com/portal/node/1925
2 words: friggin’ sweetness.

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[Originally posted: www.podcollective.com/fora/viewtopic.php]
i am air.
i speak for all gasseous combinations of hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen and other small amounts of different gasses in the form of what humans call “air”, which exist within the gaian sphere, not including steam.
i am an ancient being, born in my first form as hydrogen, at the beginning of [...]

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In Denali NP, I was in a region known as the eco-tone- the boundary between the taiga (a Russian word for Northern Forest) and the arctic tundra.
The only trees that grow there are Black Spruce. They are very small in comparison to the trees here in the Pacific NW due to the very short growing [...]

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We all know of GW Carver….the peanut dude, chemist, master agriculturalist. There’s a side to his story that many of us never hear- that of his deep connection and reverance for the plants he worked with.
As a child, local farmer’s wives brought him their sick houseplants for Carver to revive. He quickly became famous for [...]

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This last week, I was having some conversations here and there regarding plant-people relationships. Some responses I recieved were something to the effect of: well, shouldn’t we going beyond this? Plant intelligence is inferior, and less-evolved.
And this troubled me a little bit.This rolled around for a while in my head. And then I was camping [...]

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