Slightly modifying [Rupert] Sheldrake’s theory [of morphic fields and morphic resonance], however, Bache maintains that the species mind, as one layer of a vast cosmic intelligence he calls “Sacred Mind,” contains within it not just the species memory but also inherent creative capacities of enormous scope.
~ David Nicol
Winter Sunset – photo by Alex Ugalek, bigstockphoto.com
The universe is always speaking to us. … Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
~ Nancy Thayer
Navajo Arch, Arches National Park, UT – photo by thomasheen, bigstockphoto.com
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.
For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes…
When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.
~ Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Great Egret, Florida Everglades – photo by icholakov, bigstockphoto.com
When we see images of the earth from space, we see no boundaries between us, just this one blue planet, where climate change affects us all, where the global economy brings us all together. In the past, Tibet, surrounded by mountains, cherished its isolation. But, such isolation is outdated. Today, we need to take account of the well-being of the whole of humanity and preserving the health of the planet.
~His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Earth – photo from NASA
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
~ Ram Dass
Sunset, Siquijor, Philippines – photo by smithore, bigstockphoto.com
…the Reindeer Goddess honored by the ancient Lithuanian, Latvian, Slavic and Sami people of Northern Europe. These people believed that this goddess in the form or a reindeer or in a chariot pulled through the sky by reindeer flew over the land on the Winter Solstice bestowing gifts on the folks below. How exciting to discover that the quintessential modern symbol of Christmas, Santa Claus, has its origins in the Reindeer Goddess – a deity who brought the people hope as they passed through the dark time.
~ Judith Shaw
Winter in the Mountains – photo by Kotenko, bigstockphoto.com
We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world, from a spirituality of the divine as revealed in words to a spirituality of the divine as revealed in the visible world about us…
~ Thomas Berry
Cathedral Cove, New Zealand – photo by henner, bigstockphoto.com
We are approaching the longest night in the northern hemisphere, when from the deepest darkness the new light is born. The last few days before Winter Solstice can be experienced as a descent, deeper and deeper into the darkness, with long nights and not much daylight, especially when the winter skies are cloudy.
But we have forgotten how to honor the darkness as a light bringing source, as a feminine quality. This is a time of the year when we can reclaim an intimate relationship with darkness, an understanding of its power.
And at the same time, in the southern hemisphere, we are expecting the longest day of the year, full of light. So the darkness is beautifully balanced on this planet, and we are always protected from getting lost in extremes.
~ The Sacred Feminine for Life
Winter Forest at Sunset – photo by denbelitsky. bigstockphoto.com
As the world grows more and more out of balance, we urgently need to regain a relationship with the planet based upon the understanding of the world as a sacred living whole, and to reclaim a consciousness that is centered in that understanding.
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Senja Island, Norway – photo by Taiga, bigstockphoto.com
All the models [of fields of information and consciousness] share the understanding that there is a reciprocal relationship between the individual and the collective field, that is, the individual and the field are seen to mutually influence each other (the capacity of the individual to influence the collective field is obviously a crucial element in any theory of subtle activism)…
Such a process can be understood in terms of morphic resonance—the unified field being seen as common for all people, when it is activated in one person it begins to vibrate in another.
~ David Nicol
El Capitan, Yosemite – photo by jeffbanke, bigstockphoto.com
…when we place our emphasis and consciousness on the soul of the world, we’re embracing the world as something sacred, as something that has its own essence, its own purpose and destiny that might very well be different, bigger, and more mysterious than anything we suspect or anything we could understand.
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
Volcan Arenal, Costa Rica – photo by Kevin Wells Photography, bigstockphoto.com
[Per Christopher Bache} …in certain profound states of inner work, the therapeutic effect of the healing process extends beyond the psyche of the individual to aspects of various collective levels of consciousness in which the individual is embedded.
~ David Nicol
Monument Valley Sunset – photo by alexeys, bigstockphoto.com
We breathe in oxygen given to us by the trees, drink water from lakes and springs, take in materials from trees and plants that grow in the earth, their leaves gathering energy from our local star, the sun. Every moment of our lives, whether we are aware of it or not, we live in unity and intimate connection with the creative wisdom of the natural world.
~ Christopher Chase
Giant Sequoias – photo by Jairo Rene Leiva, bigstockphoto.com
And so it is this, we might say, that defines a shaman; the ability to readily slip out of the collective perceptual boundaries that define his or her culture—boundaries held in place by social customs, taboos, and especially the common language—in order to directly engage, and negotiate with, the multiple nonhuman sensibilities that animate the local earth.
~ David Abram
Bryce Canyon National Park, UT – photo by RuslanKphoto, bigstockphoto.com
The Sun
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon
and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone– and how it slides again
out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side of the world, like a red flower
streaming upward on its heavenly oils, say, on a morning in early summer, at its perfect imperial distance– and have you ever felt for anything such wild love– do you think there is anywhere, in any language, a word billowing enough for the pleasure
that fills you, as the sun reaches out, as it warms you
as you stand there, empty-handed– or have you too turned from this world–
or have you too gone crazy for power, for things?
~ Mary Oliver
Sunset over Bucura Lake, Romania – photo by rechitansorin, bigstockphoto.com
