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Portal to Multidimensional Living

Devadana Sanctuary

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Communication with other species encourages deeper and more harmonious relationships with Nature. Sensing the messages being relayed by a ‘non-talking’ being involves listening with an open mind and an open heart. This is the way of the Shaman, and the way of living with respect and in harmony with all of Earth’s beings. Inter-species communication is also known as Telepathy and is the universal language of Nature.

By seeing Earth herself, and all of Nature as sentient, we open ourselves up to the communication that exists between all life and all species.

Feeling becomes equally if not more important as thinking. Action is motivated by preservation not destruction. Care overrides cruelty. As fellow sentient beings we don’t take from Nature, depleting and destroying her, but rather we become one with her.

~ Naturesheart.org

African Leopard, Kruger National Park, South Africa – photo by bennymarty, bigstockphoto.com

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The universe is always speaking to us. … Sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.

~ Nancy Thayer 

Autumn Leaves – photo by MarjanCermelj, bigstockphoto.com

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We must have a vision of the future sufficiently entrancing that it will sustain us in the transformation of the human project that is now in process. That future can exist only when we understand the universe as composed of subjects to be communed with, not as objects to be exploited. “Use” as our primary relationship with the planet must be abandoned…

~ Thomas Berry

Sunrise, A New Day – photo by Leonid Tit, bigstockphoto.com

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By one estimate, 5 billion tons of carbon flow from plants
to mycorrhizal fungi annually. Without help from the
fungi, that carbon would likely stay in the atmosphere as
carbon dioxide, the powerful greenhouse gas that is
heating the planet and fueling dangerous weather.

“Keeping this fungal network protected is paramount as
we face climate change,” Dr. Toby Kiers said.
In addition, the biodiversity of underground fungi is a
huge factor in soil health, which is crucial to the world’s
ability to feed itself as the planet warms.

~ New York Times, “Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus”

Bioluminescent Fungi – Panellus Stipticus – photo by Ylem

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Earth Mother teach me of my kin,
of Hawk, and Dove, and flower,
of blinding sunlight, shady knoll,
desert wind and morning showers.
Teach me every language of
the creatures that sing to me,
that I may count the cadence of 
infinite lessons in harmony.

~ Jamie Sams

Bald Eagle, Rocky Mountain High Country – photo by Designwest, bigstockphoto.com

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A human being experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

~ Albert Einstein

Lake and Mist – photo by idizimage, bigstockphoto.com 

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Fungi made the world as we know it. As some of the first
life forms on the planet, they consumed minerals locked
in rocks, creating what we now know as soil. Without
them, there would be no plants on land, and therefore,
no animals. No us.

~ New York Times, “Unearthing the Secret Superpowers of Fungus”

Omphalotus nidiformis – photo by Cas Liber, Wikipedia Commons

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…deep ecologists seek to emphasize that all living beings should be permitted, whenever possible, to purse their own evolutionary destinies. In contrast to anthropocentrism, in which things have value only insofar as they are useful for promoting human ends…ecocentrism calls on people to respect individual beings and the ecosystem in which they arise.

~ M. C. Zimmerman

Great White Egret – photo by meils, bigstockphoto.com

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The Koyukon Indians of north central Alaska live “in a world that watches, in a forest of eyes.” They believe wherever we are, we are never truly alone because the surroundings, no matter how remote, are aware of our presence and must be treated with respect.

~ Duane Elgin

Silver Bay from Bear Mountain, Baranof Island, Alaska – photo by shakzu, bigstockphoto.com

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The real ceremony begins where the formal one ends, when we take up a new way, our minds and hearts filled with the vision of earth that holds us within it, in compassionate relationship to and with our world.

~ Linda Hogan

Pond, White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire – photo by haveseen, bigstockphoto.com 

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She asks me to kill the spider.
Instead, I get the most
peaceful weapons I can find.

I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away.

If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong time, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,

I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.

~ Rudy Francisco, Helium

Lotus Blossoms – photo by kenny001, bigstockphoto.com 

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We are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye. There is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us. Ubuntu speaks about the fact that you can’t exist in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world… It is to say, ‘My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.’ We belong in a bundle of life.

~ Desmond Tutu

Long Island Sound Sunset – photo by Wendy Walker

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