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The verb icarar means to sing or whistle an icaro [medicine song] over a person, object or preparation to give it power; water over which an icaro has been sung or whistled and tobacco has been blown, for example is called agua icarada…
 
Anthropologist Luis Eduardo Luna tells of how [mestizo shaman] Don Williams Vasquez deals with difficult childbirth, singing icaros [medicine songs] of slimy fish, demulcent and mucilaginous trees, the slippery boa, and the ray, which can give birth in any position. He sings these songs over a glass of water, which is given for the woman to drink.
 
~ Steve Beyer, Singing To The Plants
 
Waterfall Cascades, Krka National Park, Croatia – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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[Some] followers of the deep ecology movement…have stressed that, for deep ecology, respect and care for Nature are not based on a code of ethics…They grow spontaneously out of realizing that our small ego self is embedded in a larger ecological self. We reach awareness of and ability to act from this larger self by means of extension of identification. What we identify with we care for because, if we love ourselves, we spontaneously love what we identify with.
 
~ A. R. Drengson
 
Monument Valley Sunset – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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There is a new story waiting to be born, waiting to redeem the planet and nourish our souls. It is a story of a oneness that includes the diversity of creation in a self-sustaining whole, a story that can bring back the magic within nature that is needed to heal our damaged planet. It is a story of co-operation rather than competition or conflict. And it includes the mystery of life as well as the understanding that science can give us. It is also a new story, arising from deep within the psyche of humanity and the world soul at this moment in our and its evolution. We are not the sole creators of this story, because it is the story of life evolving, recreating itself anew, but we are needed to midwife it into existence. As with all births it needs to come from the inner to the outer world.
 
~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
 
Moraine Lake, Alberta, Canada – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Walking, I can almost hear the redwoods beating. And the oceans are above me here, rolling clouds, heavy and dark. It is winter and there is smoke from the fires. It is a world of elemental attention, of all things working together, listening to what speaks in the blood. Whichever road I follow, I walk in the land of many gods, and they love and eat one another. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

~ Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World

Redwood Forest – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…the sacred is not some special, separate category of existence. It is not to be captured and tamed with fixed verbal structures of dogma and belief, or confined in man-made buildings. For sacredness is inherent in the very essence of life and the multiple patterns of its arising. Sacredness is the radiant expansion of the heart, the devotion to life that rises in contemplation of the inexhaustible mystery that is unity in diversity, the One manifesting through the whole of creation.

~ Eleanor O’Hanlon

Sunrise – Yosemite National Park, photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We cannot step outside life’s songs. This music made us; it is our nature…

Our ethic must therefore be one of belonging, an imperative made all the more urgent by the many ways that human actions are fraying, rewiring, and severing biological networks worldwide. To listen to trees, nature’s great connectors, is therefore to learn how to inhabit the relationships that give life its source, substance, and beauty.

~ David George Haskell, from The Songs of Trees: Stores from Nature’s Great Connectors

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A blessing is much more than just an act. It is an affirmation of our interconnectedness; it is the creation of an opportunity for the power of that connectedness to pour through into our lives and the lives of others. So in practicing the art of blessing, we are really practicing being connected. We are practicing how to discover and express those parts of ourselves that innately understand that connectedness and the wholeness that emerges from it.
 
~ David Spangler
 
Falling Water Falls, AK – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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…nature teems with consciousness through and through. Matter itself tingles with the spark of spirit, and therefore nature, in all its forms and glory, is sacred to its deepest roots.
 
~ Christian de Quincey, “Radical Nature: The Soul of Nature”
 
Garden of the Gods – photo by R. Kimbrow, bigstockphoto.com

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Acknowledging our love for the living world does something that a library full of papers on sustainable development and ecosystem services cannot: it engages the imagination as well as the intellect. It inspires belief; and this is essential to the lasting success of any movement.
 
~ George Monbiot
 
Tropical Jungle at Dawn – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Knowing that you love the earth changes you, activates you to defend and protect and celebrate. But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.
 
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
 
Sejalandsfoss Waterfall, Iceland – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Earth, Teach Me

Earth teach me quiet
as the grasses are still with new light.
Earth teach me suffering
as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility
as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring
as mothers nurture their young.
Earth teach me courage
as the tree that stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation
as the ant that crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom
as the eagle that soars in the sky.
Earth teach me acceptance
as the leaves that die each fall.
Earth teach me renewal
as the seed that rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself
as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness
as dry fields weep with rain.

~ Ute Prayer

Ash Cave Falls, Hocking Hills, OH – photo b Michael Shake, bigstockphoto.com

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…thoughts, intentions, prayer and other units of consciousness can directly influence our physical material world. Consciousness can be a big factor in creating change on the planet. Sending thoughts of love, healing intent, prayer, good intention, and more can have a powerful influence on what you are directing those feelings towards.
 
~ Arjun Walia
 
Monument Valley, AZ – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Exploration #8

In recent explorations, I’ve invited you to attune to the fact that everything you encounter radiates a particular quality, an essence of being.  I’ve also invited you to recognize that everything you encounter is an expression of the same sacred source as you.  For this week’s exploration, I invite you to focus more specifically on the individual trees, bushes, plants, rocks, water, buildings, and whatever else you encounter along the way as you move through your daily activities.  The emphasis here is to notice that each has a unique quality.

For example, let’s say you walk by particular trees on the street you travel to and from work every day.  You may already have noticed that each tree, even if they look very much alike, has a distinct quality to it, a unique expression even though its physical form may be very much like the tree right next to it.   View More