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Portal to Multidimensional Living

In becoming aware of the spiritual dimension of reality, the shamanic practitioner knows and sees the sacred in everything and experiences the direct knowledge that everything comes from the same divine source—that everything is the Source.
 
~ Claude Poncelet
 
Grape Leaves – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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simply a private matter. Your outlook actually and concretely affects what goes on. When you give in to helplessness, you collude with despair and add to it. When you take back your power and choose to see the possibilities for healing and transformation, your creativity awakens and flows to become an active force of renewal and encouragement in the world. In this way, even in your own hidden life, you can become a powerful agent of transformation. There is a huge force field that opens when intention focuses and directs itself toward transformation.
 
~ John O’Donohue
 
Garden of the Gods, CO – photo by R. Kimbrow, bigstockphoto.com

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I have chosen to define subtle activism in terms of spiritual or consciousness-based approaches simply because I want to emphasize the potential of these usually overlooked methods to contribute to positive social change.
 
~ David Nicol, from “Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation”
 
Bryce Canyon – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Standing alone on a mountain top, it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make–leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents of piled stone–we all dwell in a house of one room…
 
~ John Muir
 
Lake of Mountain Spirits, Park Ergaki, Siberia, Russia – phoro by Evigenly Ivanov, bigstockphoto.com

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Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life – weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode…
 
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
 
Milky Way, Crimea – photo by Den Belitsky, bigstockphoto.com

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The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time…
 
Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.
 
~ Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
 
Australian Landscape – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

~ Nelson Mandela

Blue Cave, Island of Zakynthos, Greece – photo by Krivosheev Vitaly, bigstockphoto.com

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Everything interesting happens at the edges. As we are moving to restore our relationships with nature, including one another, in an extremely diverse and globally connected planet, the knowledge we need is held by those who are crossing boundaries between fixed viewpoints, restoring relationship with place, holding multiple ways of being, and reintegrating feminine wisdom…
 
It is unreasonable to assume we will re-enter a collective state of healing that is based on a common, seamless view. Instead, wholeness and healing manifest when we honor our collective wounding and allow our brokenness and resulting stories and diversities to be seen and held. It is our cracks, our brokenness, our edges that reorder our vision of the world, so that we may see more clearly, from a perspective that is much larger than a myopic view.
 
~ Jeanine M. Canty
 
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Felice Wyndham is an ecological anthropologist and ethnobiologist who has noted that people she has worked with can intimately sense the world beyond their body. “It’s a form of enhanced mindfulness,” she says. “It’s quite common, you see it in most hunter-gatherer groups. It’s an extremely developed skill base of cognitive agility, of being able to put yourself into a viewpoint and perspective of many creatures or objects – rocks, water, clouds.”
 
“We, as humans, have a remarkable sensitivity, imagination, and ability to be cognitively agile,” Wyndham says. “If we are open to it and train ourselves to learn how to drop all of the distractions to our sensory capacity, we’re able to do so much more biologically than we use in contemporary industrial society.”
 
~ Jim Robbins, “Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning From Indigenous People”, published in Yale Environment 360
 
Mountain River, Carpathians, Ukraine – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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There is only one boundary on earth really, and that is the atmosphere. What we do here in the U.S. impacts climate, which, in turn, impacts people all around the world. When you see and know that our destinies are inseparably stitched together, what else is there to do but honor life in its extraordinary manifestations? Being life means creating the conditions for life.
 
~ Paul Hawken
 
Grand Canyon at Dusk – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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When you know that trees experience pain and have memories and that tree parents live together with their children, then you can no longer just chop them down and disrupt their lives with large machines.
 
~ Peter Wohlleben
 
Redwood Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Only if we can learn to see the other members of the Earth community from their point of view—to stand where they stand—and feel an empathy with their life can we begin to find a path to sustainable habitation of this planet.
 
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
 
Lumahai Beach, Kauai, Hawaii – photo by Steven Gaertner, bigstockphoto.com

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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.
 
~ Terry Tempest Williams
 
Female Kingfisher on Lichen Covered Branch – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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