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Tag Archives: cultural history
Small Gods – Martin Shaw
http://drmartinshaw.com/essays/ Click on the link above for another powerful piece from Martin. Here’s a taste:- ‘Once upon a time there was a lonely hunter. One evening, returning to his hut over the snow, he saw smoke coming from his chimney. … Continue reading →
Posted in accountability, awakening, beauty, communication, community, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological issues, embodiment, encounter, grief, healing, immanence, interconnection & belonging, love, Martin Shaw, meaning, metaphor & dream, myth, natural world, non-conforming, paradigm shift, perception, physical being, poetry, political, presence, rewilding, surrender, transformation
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The Ecology of Language – Abbie Simmonds
http://dark-mountain.net/blog/the-ecology-of-language/ Fascinating piece by Abbie, about the ways in which language holds and shapes (or can limit/reduce) meaning, personally, collectively, spiritually – and has the power to connect us with our embodied experiencing and with the land. She quotes Wade Davis:- … Continue reading →
Posted in awakening, beauty, cognitive, communication, compassion, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, ecological, ecological issues, embodiment, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, ethics, external locus, family systems, flow, gratitude, grief, growing up, growth, healing, human condition, immanence, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, loss, love, meaning, metaphor & dream, mindfulness, natural world, objectification, organismic experiencing, perception, physical being, poetry, power and powerlessness, presence, reality, relationship, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self, self concept, spirituality, surrender, sustainability, transformation, trust, vulnerability, wonder
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