People Need Nature

"Nature doesn’t need people. People need nature. Human beings are part of nature. Nature is not dependent on human beings to exist. Human beings, on the other hand, are totally dependent on nature to exist. The growing number of people on the planet and how we live here is going to determine the future of nature. And the future of us. Nature will go on, no matter what. It will evolve. The question is, will it be with us or without us?" ~ from the movie "Nature is Speaking"

Revering the Universe, Caring for Nature, Celebrating Life

Your Deep Ecology Moment

The way in which the "spiritus absconditus" speaks through the author of the first part of the "Aurora consurgens," reminds one of the spirit of earth in Faust. This spirit speaks to Faust, who writes down what it says. The author of our text continues later:

"Turn to me with your whole heart and do not spurn me 

because I am weak and black, for the sun has changed my colour 

and the depths have hidden my countenance, 

and the earth is corrupted and infected in my operations, 

because darkness had been laid upon it. 

Because I am held fast in the mire of the deep 

and my substance is not revealed, 

therefore I cried out of the depths 

and from the abysses of the earth 

doth my voice speak unto you."

~ Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 16 May 1941, Page 157

photo Gabrielle Jones-Price | Gabrielle Jones Photography & Psychedelicatessen

Prayer For Water || Photo Mandala

Prayer for Water || photo mandala by Gabrielle Jones Photography & Psychedelicatessen
#NoDAPL #StandingRock #WaterIsLife
[Mandala consists of two types of wild turkey feather, wooden puja beads, Labradorite crystal, turquoise, silver and love for sacred water]

Finding Our Tribe

"This is the hardest time to live, but it is also the greatest honor to be alive now, and to be allowed to see this time.  There is no other time like now.  We should be thankful, for creation did not make weak spirits to live during this time.  The old ones say 'this is the time when the strongest spirits will live through and those who are empty shells, those who have lost the connection will not survive.'   We have become masters of survival -- we will survive -- it is our prophecy to do so."

"Humanity must shift from living "on" the earth, to living with her." -- Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is from the Cheyenne River Lakota (Sioux) Nation of South Dakota.  He holds a Masters Degree in Native American studies and Communications.  He is a storyteller, poet, university lecturer, scholar, essayist, cultural interpreter, and a peace and human rights activist.  Tiokasin has been described as "a spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator and a community activator."  One reviewer called him "a cultural resonator in the key of life."