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Portal to Multidimensional Living

The cumulative data [from the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory Global Consciousness Project, for one] suggests that focused collective attention produces a subtle increase in physical coherence in the world…It is important to reiterate, however, that subtle activism is not proposed as a replacement for outer action, but as a method that ideally supports and amplifies more direct forms of intervention.

~ David Nicol, from “Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation”

Footpath in Dense Rainforest, Azores, Portugal – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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The deeper we look into nature, the more we recognize that it is full of life, and the more profoundly we know that all life is sacred and that we are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.

~ Albert Schweitze

Iguazu Falls, Argentina – photo by Michal Kniti, bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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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, “The Hidden Life of Trees”

Tree People of Central Park, photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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By dismissing as naïve any human perception of sentience or intelligence in the natural world, the dominant view is deeply implicated in the ecological crisis insofar as it has permitted and justified a profoundly irreverent attitude toward nature. [Thomas Berry} argued that the imperative for the human is to appreciate that the Earth and all its living and nonliving components forms an integral community, that the human is a member of this community, and that we will find our greatest fulfillment by advancing the well-being of the total community.

~ David Nicol, from “Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation”

Morning, Lake Obersee, Swiss Alps – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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The light within the earth, what the alchemists called the lumen naturae, is a primal source of energy and power that has yet to be fully accessed by humanity. It belongs to our natural relationship to life, to creation and its sacred nature. This energy source can once again become accessible as humanity remembers its place in the whole and relates to all life with an understanding of oneness – of unity and multi-dimensional interdependence. We cannot work with earth’s light, nor will we know the real names of creation, through a consciousness of separation or duality.

We need to claim the consciousness of oneness that is waiting for us.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

View From Cave Dwellings – photo by Andre Jkoslav, bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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We must remember that it is not only the human world that is held securely in this sacred enfoldment but the entire planet. We need this security, this presence throughout our lives. The sacred is that which evokes the depths of wonder. We may know some things, but really we know only the shadows of things.

~ Thomas Berry

El Capitan in Snow, Yosemite – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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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”

Yangshou Guilin, China – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

~ Jane Goodall

Havasu Falls, Havasupai Reservation, AZ – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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On its own, a tree cannot establish a consistent local climate. It is at the mercy of wind and weather. But together, many trees create an ecosystem that moderates extremes of heat and cold, stores a great deal of water, and generates a great deal of humidity. And, in this protected environment, trees can live to be very old.

~ Peter Wohlleben, “The Hidden Life of Trees”

Pacific Northwest Forest – photo by Craig Chanowski, bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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I define subtle activism as “spiritual or consciousness-based practices intended to support collective transformation.”…subtle activism involves various forms of practices, where the practices themselves are seen to constitute a subtle form of social or political action.

~ David Nicol, from “Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation”

Sunset, Barbados – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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Subtle activism is distinguished by its emphasis on the potential of spiritual practice itself to constitute a subtle form of action in the sociopolitical sphere…This proposal in its strongest version, affirms the possibility that certain forms of spiritual practice might themselves subtly effect change in the social realm through the principles of nonlocal causality.

~ David Nicol, from “Subtle Activism: The Inner Dimension of Social and Planetary Transformation”

Huangshan Mountains Chine – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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In the human spirit, as in the universe, nothing is higher or lower; everything has equal rights to a common center which manifests its hidden existence precisely through this harmonic relationship between every part and itself.

~ Goethe

Autumn Trees and River – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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So many indigenous people have said to me that the fundamental difference between Western and indigenous ways of being is that even the most open-minded westerners generally view listening to the natural world as a metaphor, as opposed to the way the world really is. Trees and rocks and rivers really do have things to say to us.

~Derrick Jensen

San Miguel River, Telluride, CO – photo from bigstockphoto.com, used with permission

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