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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Devadana Sanctuary

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I thought the earth remembered me,
she took me back so tenderly,
arranging her dark skirts,
her pockets full of lichens and seeds.
I slept as never before,
a stone on the riverbed,
nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts,
and they floated light as moths
among the branches of the perfect trees.
All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me,
the insects and the birds
who do their work in the darkness.
All night I rose and fell, as if in water,
grappling with a luminous doom.
By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.

~ Mary Oliver

Lower Gray Wolf River – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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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 scientific redefinitions 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

Stars Over Ruby, Ruby Beach – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other… By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.

~ Lynne McTaggart

Photo by Zastrozzi Dh Photography, used with permission

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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything – even mountains, rivers, plants and trees – should be your teacher.

~ Morihei Ueshiba

Storm’s End, Tunnel View, Yosemite – photo by Gary Hart Photography, used with permission

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Every tradition includes teachings that expand the self in widening circles of identification. You can learn to draw the circle of the self so wide that the body of earth becomes your larger body, with the rivers like your veins, the rain forests your lungs. Through our desire to protect what we love, we can recognize our interconnectedness with all life.

~ Joanna Macy

Quinault River – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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A change is needed in every phase of human life. This lies mainly in recognition that the micro phase, the particular or national traditions, must find their context and fulfillment in the macro phase, the global or panhuman phase of human existence. The future rests in the religious, political, economic and cultural capacity of humans to establish this larger context in which the particular traditions will find both support and fulfillment in a functional global community.

~ Thomas Berry

Frozen Juniper and O’Neill Butte, Near Mather Point, South Rim, Grand Canyon National Park – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.

~ Terence McKenna

British Columbia, Canada – photo by Thomas Dawson Photography, used with permission

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The law is that all life is equal in the Great Creation, and we, the Human Beings, are charged with the responsibility, each in our generation, to work for the continuation of life.

~ Traditional Circle of Elders

Great Blue Heron, photo by Marcel Pepin Photography – used with permission

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It is true that many of the old ways have been lost.
But, just as the rains restore the earth after a drought,
so the power of the Great Mystery will restore the way
and give new life.
We ask that this happen not just for the Red People,
but for all people,
that they all might live.
In ignorance and carelessness they
have walked on Ina Maka, Our Mother.
They did not understand that they are part of all beings,
the Four-legged, the Winged, Grandfather Rock,
the Tree People, and our Star Brothers.
Now our Mother and all our Relations are crying out.
They cry for the help of all people.

~ Black Elk

Dawn Moonset, Dead Horse Point State Park, UT – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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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. We can sense it in the re-emergence of the goddess Gaia, whose archetypal energy and numinosity speak to us of the world as a living being. Her image and the sense of an animate earth has re-entered western consciousness and acquired a life of its own.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Lower Gray Wolf River Trail – photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one’s perception of reality.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Grey’s Arch, KY – photo by Fultz Fotos, used with permission

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From a poem by John O’Donohue:

…May dawn find you awake and alert, approaching your new day with dreams,
Possibilities and promises.
May evening find you gracious and fulfilled.
May you go into the night blessed, sheltered and protected.
May your soul calm, console and renew you.

~ John O’Donohue

Lower Gray Wolf River Trail, photo by KR Backwoods Photography, used with permission

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Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships.

~ Winona LaDuke

Aspens and Pines, San Francisco Peaks, Northern AZ – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.

~ Adriaan Kortlandt

Grand Canyon Sunset – photo by Don Smith Photography, used with permission

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