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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Devadana Sanctuary

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Deep listening can help us catch sight of the soul: listening to our inner voice, listening to our community, listening to wild nature, listening for wholeness. Without listening for wholeness, truth and beauty we will not find the answer to why we are worth sustaining — the key to regeneration.
 
~ David Christian Wahl
 
Bryce Canyon National Park, UT – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Modern peoples…have mainly forgotten that we live in relationship as brothers and sisters with all the beings and forces of the natural world. Our scientificredefinitions of the “unseen” as the “unreal” have caused us to forget that we are all luminous strands in a giant web of belonging.

~don Oscar Miro-Quesada

Tree Ferms. Mount Field National Park, Tasmania – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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It is understandable that many of our theories on the nature of life are based on animals and plants; however, to confine our understanding of life to these familiar forms is to confuse the material expression of aliveness with the energy of aliveness itself. The form is not the aliveness, but its container. We need to broaden our inquiry into the meaning of life.
 
~ Duane Elgin
 
Inside Rifle Falls, CO – photo by Kris Wiktor, bigstockphoto.com

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An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely, the confiscation of their lands and imposition of foreign education, which turns their young people into amnesiacs, threatens the survival not only of these people, but of an entire way of knowing. It is as if one were burning down the oldest universities in the world and their libraries, one after another — thereby sacrificing the knowledge of the world’s future generations.
 
~ Jeremy Narby
 
Rock Pedestals, Arches National Park – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Participatory consciousness emerges in relationship with an animate world, an ensouled universe with both a past and an unfolding future. Rivers and mountains, galaxies and microbes are physical and psychic presences with their own stories and longings. I believe that Thomas Berry not only expressed participatory consciousness, but that he helped evoke it in others, and that this evocation was one of his finest gifts to Earth and to the human species.
 
~ Geneen Marie Haugen
 
Sahalie Falls, McKenzie River National Recreation Trail – photo by Christopher Boswell, bigstockphoto.com

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The accelerating changes of these times offer us increased opportunities to advance in consciousness— by integrating our spiritual heart’s wisdom with our human intelligence into a oneness relationship…caring for ourselves and others is caring for the whole.
 
~ Doc Childre
 
Huangshan Mountain Peaks, Anhui Province, China – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect. The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness; something instinctive in us expects it, and once we sense it we are able to trust and open ourselves.
 
~ John O’Donohue
 
Sakura Cherry Blossom – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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Animal communicators have most likely existed for a long time, probably in every single culture in the world. It is only in our modern Western materialistic culture, which has been influenced by mainstream institutions of religion and science based on perceiving a reality of separateness, that such a possibility seems so outlandish. However…animal communication, also known as interspecies communication, is a very real phenomenon.

~ Makie Freeman

Raccoon, Pforzheim, Germany – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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We struggle over words when the slime mold solves the maze, because our concepts don’t fit the data. It is not that nature lacks intelligence, but that our own concepts do.
 
~ Jeremy Narby
 
White Mushrooms, Borneo – photo by Stephan Scherhag, bigstockphoto.com

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…every act we make, every word we speak, every thought we think is not only affected by the other elements in the vast web of being in which all things take part, but also has results so far-reaching that we cannot see or imagine them.
 
~ Joanna Macy
 
Evening in Sedona, AZ – photo from bigstockphoto.com

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SOMETIMES
Sometimes
if you move carefully
through the forest
 
breathing
like the ones
in the old stories
 
who could cross
a shimmering bed of dry leaves
without a sound,
 
you come
to a place
whose only task
 
is to trouble you
with tiny
but frightening requests
 
conceived out of nowhere
but in this place
beginning to lead everywhere.
 
Requests to stop what
you are doing right now,
and
 
to stop what you
are becoming
while you do it,
 
questions
that can make
or unmake
a life,
 
questions
that have patiently
waited for you,
 
questions
that have no right
to go away.
 
~ David Whyte
 
Summer Forest – photo by Tatiana Belova, bigstockphoto.com

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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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