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Portal to Multidimensional Living

When our eyes are graced with wonder, the world reveals its wonders to us. There are people who see only dullness in the world and that is because their eyes have already been dulled. So much depends on how we look at things. The quality of our looking determines what we come to see. Too often we squander the invitations extended to us because our looking has become repetitive and blind. The mystery and beauty is all around us but we never manage to see it. When the imagination awakens, the inner world illuminates. We begin to glimpse things that no-one speaks about, that the outer world seems to ignore.

~ John O’Donohue

Sunset in Nepal, Himalayan Mountains – photo by denbelitsky, 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

Autumn Forest – photo by Project-Photo, bigstockphoto.com

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What if there were another system and jurisprudence, based upon the concept that the planet and all of its species have rights — and they have those rights by virtue of their existence as component members of a single Earth community?

~ Thomas Berry

Yosemite National Park in Autumn – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com

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we aren’t here to
turn our lives into
a bank vault
we are here to be
a gateless park
oh, my love,
I wasted so many
years before I learned
that
we are not what we take
from this world
we are defined by what we
give back to it

~ john roedel

Jasper National Park, Rocky Mountains, Canada – photo by kavram, bigstockphoto.com

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Reciprocity is rooted in the understanding that we are not alone, that the Earth is populated by non-human persons, wise and inventive beings deserving of our respect.

We are surrounded by teachers and mentors who come dressed in foliage, fur, and feathers. There is comfort in their presence and guidance in their lessons.

~ Robin Wall Kimmerer

Sri Lankan Leopards – photo by sonnydaez, bigstockphoto.com

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The word ‘animism’ refers to something so commonplace, so taken for granted in tribal cultures, that most don’t even have a word for it—it is the foundational belief that spirit and matter are one. That all things are imbued with a soul; not just humans and animals, but mountains, thunder, shadows, and even the wind. If we learn to listen to and engage in a dialogue with that diversity of voices, we begin to see how there is a constant dynamism taking place between waking and dreaming, seen and unseen, mundane and holy. Like a tree whose roots are hidden in the rich darkness of the soil, human beings are meant to take our cues from the inner life—not the other way around.

~ Excerpt From Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home by Toko-pa Turner

Sunset Light, Alpen Glow on Teton Mountains – photo by eric1513, bigstockphoto.com

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I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other’s destiny.

~Mary Oliver

Earth – photo from NASA

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Although we have often been consigned to history, indigenous people are the most futuristic communities in the world. That is because the great wheel of time has turned and now the wisdom of indigenous people is needed more than ever. Native communities around the earth created sustainable and equitable societies in harmony with the environment. We need that knowledge again if we are to have a tomorrow.

~ Steven Charleston

Storm Clouds over Sedona – photo by ftlaudgirl, bigstockphoto.com

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No matter what our race or ethnicity, our species always had a kinship with a greater-than-human world. It is this kinship that allowed us to become and to flourish as humans, but here in the West, many of us have largely forgotten that we need nature for both our physical and psychological well-being.

~ Alexis Lassman

Egret, Costa Rica – photo by UlyssePixel, bigstockphoto.com

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