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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Devadana Sanctuary

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Ecology and spirituality are two sides of the same coin—understanding and making sense of our own interbeing with the world, and our interdependence. You can enter into an embodied experience of wholeness and meaning through the door of the natural world or through spiritual practice. In fact, the two are ultimately not separate but they are pathways to the same oneness of existence in and through relationships. A oneness we experience most of the time from the limited perspective created by the ‘illusion of separation’.

~ Daniel Christian Wahl

Redwood National Park, CA – photo by Maks_Ershov, bigstockphoto.com

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You are comprised of: 84 minerals, 23 Elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells.

You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth … You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet’s most complex living thing.

You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.

~ Aubrey Marcus

Blue Morpho Butterfly – photo by Gray Photography, bigstockphoto.com

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…the indigenous world embraces a much larger and dynamically interactive reality than does our Western point of view. For many indigenous peoples, the fact that we live in a larger context than what our five senses can perceive is a given. That there are non-visible beings who interact with us on a daily basis is also a given. We in the West have become accustomed to thinking of these kinds of assumptions about reality as naïve or based on fantasy. For people who live in societies that take these wider realities as a given, they are anything but fantasies.

~ Nancy Napier, “Sacred Practices for Conscious Living, 2nd Edition”

Monument Valley, Navajo Land – photo by Gueshni, bigstockphoto.com

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Every tree, every plant, has a spirit. People may say that the plant has no mind. I tell them that the plant is alive & conscious. A plant may not talk, but there is a spirit in it that is conscious, that sees everything, which is the soul of the plant, its essence, what makes it alive. The channels through which the water & sap move are the veins of the spirit. 

~ Pablo Amaringo

350-year-old Saman Tree, St. Kitts, West Indies – photo by RaksyBH, bigstockphoto.com

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This dimension of our ecological crisis, our forgetfulness of the sacred, is hardly recognized, is a hidden tragedy, and yet I believe it is our primary spiritual responsibility at this time: to reconnect with what is sacred all around us, and thus make life both whole and holy. We can no longer afford to live in separation, in isolation, but need to become once again part of the great conversation with the rivers and the winds, the seas and the stars. Then we will reconnect with the Earth and Her ancient wisdom, and together walk into the future that is waiting, a future in which the light in our hearts and our love for the Earth can heal and redeem the wasteland that our culture has created. Together we will find a way to live in harmony with all of life’s multihued unity.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Volcanic Los Hervideros Coastline, Spain – photo by RossHelen, bigstockphoto.com 

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Speaking about an experiment done with plants and the response of a plant that didn’t make it to a pole before another one:

What is interesting is the behaviour of the loser: it immediately sensed the other plant had reached the pole and started to find an alternative. This was astonishing and it demonstrates the plants were aware of their physical environment and the behaviour of the other plant. In animals we call this consciousness.

~ BBC News on “Science and Environment”

Plant Life after the Rain – photo by yayabaidillah, bigstockphoto.com

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In reality there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than human. In this community every being has its own role to fulfill, its own dignity, its inner spontaneity., 

~ Thomas Berry

Greater Egret – photo by tornado98, bigstockphoto.com

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…we are all energy, radiating our own unique energy signature. Feelings, thoughts and emotions play a vital role, quantum physics helps us see the significance of how we all feel. If all of us are in a peaceful loving state inside, it will no doubt impact the external world around us, and influence how others feel as well.

~ Arjuna Walia

Central Park – photo by Devadana Sanctuary

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Still as sleeping water, quiet as snow on snow, within each of us is a sacred center… No matter how intense the struggles around us may be, there is always a steady and serene center within us. It is the place of our connection to the infinite. Rest and renew in this holy space whenever you can. It will always be there, waiting for you.

~ Steven Charleston

Cotton Flower Wildflower Blossom – photo by Jay Pierstorff, bigstockphotocom

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When we pause, we are able to observe our interdependence—from a harvest taken from the soil by a stranger’s hands to the electrician who keeps the lights and Wi-Fi on. We are surrounded by the abundance we create for each other. 

~ Joe Primo

Flowering Field in An Olive Grove, Sicily, Italy – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com

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But the most astonishing thing about trees is how social they are. The trees in a forest care for each other, sometimes even going so far as to nourish the stump of a felled tree for centuries after it was cut down by feeding it sugars and other nutrients, and so keeping it alive. Only some stumps are thus nourished. Perhaps they are the parents of the trees that make up the forest of today. A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web” of soil fungi that connects vegetation in an intimate network that allows the sharing of an enormous amount of information and goods. Scientific research aimed at understanding the astonishing abilities of this partnership between fungi and plant has only just begun.

~ Peter Wohlleben

Redwood Forest, Northern California, US – photo by Virrage Images, bigstockphoto.com 

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