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Portal to Multidimensional Living

The earth and all its life forms and processes are sacred. We belong to them and they to us—we are kin. We should, therefore, act lovingly, reverently, and respectfully toward them. We must not unnecessarily injure these beings and processes when we take from them what we need to live. The key to contemporary earth-based spirituality and ethics is, therefore, a felt sense of “connection,” kinship, and loyalty to earth, her life forms, and living systems.
 
~ Bron Taylor
 
Merced River, Yosemite – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…if we open ourselves to the possibility that we are all participants in an interconnected web of life, as many indigenous peoples believed and actually experienced things to be, destroying the natural world simply to serve the essentially suicidal infinite economic growth model will be identified for the insanity that it is. If we recognize, as biologist James Lovelock proposed, the Earth as a whole should be looked upon more like a self-regulating organism (Gaia hypothesis), or as mycologist Paul Stamet envisions, that there is a fungi-based internet within the ground connecting all living things on the planet in an information-sharing network, we will be less likely to both perceive and treat the natural world as “other” to be dominated.

~ Sayer Ji

Montana Forest Stream – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Indigenous teachings embrace the divine feminine in a way that is crucial for healing the earth and ourselves. For thousands of years it has been known that everything that exists in this world is alive and has a spirit.
 
We are connected to a web of life that reflects the impact of the behavior of all that is alive. We can speak to the spirit of the trees, plants, rocks, rivers, animals, birds, insects, and reptiles and perceive their divine nature. As everything that exists is alive, each being also recognizes the divine in us. The earth is alive and is a sacred being. It is time for us to align with the heartbeat of the earth.
 
~ Sandra Ingerman
 
Sunrise, Hunts Mesa, Monument Valley, AZ – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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There is a continuous flow of interactive communications in ecosystems, each tiny part a response to the ever-living, never-stopping, always-flowing communications that are coming from all the tightly coupled members of that ecosystem and the environment in which it all is embedded.
 
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
 
Deep Spruce Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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There was a time when the distances between our world and those we considered “imaginary” were no further than a bend in the road.  Each cavern and hollow tree was a doorway to another world.  Humans recognized life in all things.  The streams sang and the winds whispered ancient words into the ears of whomever would listen.  Every blade of grass and flower had a tale to tell…There was life and purpose in all things and there was loving interaction between the worlds.

Goliath Heron, Kruger National Park – photo by Johan Swanepoel, bigstockphoto.com

~ Ted Andrews

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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. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. 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
 
Horse Head Rock, Bermagui, Australia – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Stories, myths, and legends have existed since the beginning of humanity. They tell us about the world around us and give us a different filter to understand how things came about. For indigenous cultures who hold the longest relationship with life and natural surroundings, everything is alive and divine––even things we consider inanimate. And everything has a story of how they came to be what they are today. Even acorns.
 
~ John P. Harrington
 
Russel Falls, Mount Field National Park, Tasmania, Australia – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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The subject with which we are concerned is the spirituality of the earth. By this I do not mean a spirituality that is directed toward an appreciation of the earth. I speak of the earth as subject, not as object. I am concerned with the maternal principle out of which we were born and whence we derive all that we are and all that we have. In our totality we are born of the earth. We are earthlings. The earth is our origin, our nourishment, our support, our guide. Our spirituality itself is earth-derived. If there is no spirituality in the earth, then there is no spirituality in ourselves. The human and the earth are totally implicated each in the other.
 
~ Thomas Berry
 
Anasazi Ruins, False Kiva, Canyonlands National Park, UT – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Because they are primeval, because they outlive us, because they are fixed, trees seem to emanate a sense of permanence. And though rooted in earth, they seem to touch the sky. For these reasons it is natural to feel we might learn wisdom from them, to haunt about them with the idea that if we could only read their silent riddle rightly we should learn some secret vital to our own lives; or even, more specifically, some secret vital to our real, our lasting and spiritual existence.
 
~ Kim Taplin, Tongues in Trees
 
1000-Year-Old Linden Tree – photo by Andy Hoech, bigstockphoto.com

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The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete … They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are OTHER NATIONS, caught up with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.
 
~ Henry Beston
 
Bighorn Sheep, Glacier National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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The Ancient Rhythms of the Earth
 
The earth is our origin and destination. The ancient rhythms of the earth have insinuated themselves into the rhythms of the human heart. The earth is not outside us; it is within: the clay from where the tree of the body grows. When we emerge from our offices, rooms and houses, we enter our natural element. We are children of the earth; people to whom the outdoors is home. Nothing can separate us from the vigour and vibrancy of this inheritance. In contrast to our frenetic, saturated lives, the earth offers a calming stillness. The patience of nature enjoys the ease of trust and hope. There is something in our clay nature that needs to continually experience this ancient, outer ease of the world. It helps us remember who we are and why we are here.
 
~ John O’Donohue
 
Sun and Forest, Czechoslovakia – photo by Ko Tangens, bigstockphoto.com

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If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear, people who can open to the web of life that called us into being, and who can rest in the vitality of that larger body.

~ Joanna Macy

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The communication of the world did not occur in the visible realm of Newton, but in the subatomic world of Werner Heisenberg. Cells and DNA communicate through frequencies. The brain perceived and made its own record of the world in pulsating waves. A substructure underpins the universe that is essentially a recording medium of everything, providing a means for everything to communicate with everything else. People are indivisible from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated entity.
 
~ Lynn McTaggart
 
Creek in Rainforest Morning Mist – photo by Greg Brave, bigstockphoto.com

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How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. If we do not own the freshness of the air and the sparkle of the water, how can you buy them? Every part of the Earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clear and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and the man, all belong to the same family.
 
~ Chief Seattle
 
Sedona Canyon Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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