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d of mistaken anthropomorphism trees are not misconstrued as leaf wearing humans but respected as unique sovereign beings equal to or exceeding the power of humans seneca scholar john mohawk wrote that according to his culture an individual is not smart but merely lucky to be part of a system that has intelligence be humble about this the real intelligence isn t the property of an individual the real intelligence is the property of the universe itself continue reading posted in uncategorized tagged agroecology permaculture robin wall kimmerer the mind of plants 1 comment crónica de un rescate de enjambre de abejas silvestres anunciado posted on july 3 2021 by pancho por lo pronto la crónica es visual noviembre 3 2021 posted in uncategorized leave a comment one foot lead with love posted on june 21 2021 by awakinoak by melanie demore song s lyrics you gotta put one foot in front of the other and lead with love put one foot in front of the other and lead with love repeat all 4 lines verses call and response don t give up hope you re not alone don t you give up keep movin on lift up your eyes don t you despair look up ahead the path is there i know you re scared and i m scared too but here i am right next to you last chorus repeat last line two more times melanie demore is a vocal activist born in the bronx with a present home in oakland she is a solo performer herself facilitates vocal workshops for professional and community based choral groups and has taught her sound awareness program in schools prisons and youth organizations in the us canada cuba and new zealand demore was a director of the oakland youth chorus for 10 years and is a founding member of the critically acclaimed vocal ensemble linda tillery and the cultural heritage choir and is also a long standing member of the threshold choir she is on the faculty at california institute of integral studies and at uc berkeley excerpt from dailygood org june 16th post posted in artivism awakin oakland kindness meditation music nonviolence soulforce uncategorized wednesdaysontuesdays tagged melanie demore leave a comment once the world was perfect posted on june 1 2021 by awakinoak by joy harjo photo by simone busatto once the world was perfect and we were happy in that world then we took it for granted discontent began a small rumble in the earthly mind then doubt pushed through with its spiked head and once doubt ruptured the web all manner of demon thoughts jumped through we destroyed the world we had been given for inspiration for life each stone of jealousy each stone of fear greed envy and hatred put out the light no one was without a stone in his or her hand there we were right back where we had started we were bumping into each other in the dark and now we had no place to live since we didn t know how to live with each other then one of the stumbling ones took pity on another and shared a blanket a spark of kindness made a light the light made an opening in the darkness everyone worked together to make a ladder a wind clan person climbed out first into the next world and then the other clans the children of those clans their children and their children all the way through time to now into this morning light to you joy harjo conflict resolution from holy beings w w norton company 2015 joy harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the muscogee creek nation ms harjo is the first native american poet laureate of the united states the author of nine books of poetry including the highly acclaimed an american sunrise several plays and children s books and two memoirs crazy brave and poet warrior as a musician and performer harjo has produced seven award winning music albums including her newest i pray for my enemies she is a chancellor of the academy of american poets board of directors chair of the native arts cultures foundation and holds a tulsa artist fellowship she lives in tulsa oklahoma posted in artivism awakin oakland fearlessness kindness nonviolence poetry wednesdaysontuesdays tagged joy harjo leave a comment where the horses sing posted on may 25 2021 by pancho by llewellyn vaughan lee post as it appeared in emergence magazine witnessing a growing wasteland llewellyn vaughan lee seeks the threshold that could bring us back to the place where the land sings to a deep ecology of consciousness that returns our awareness to a fully animate world i like to walk early and am often alone on the beach the ocean and the birds my only companions the tiny sanderlings running back and forth chasing the waves some days the sun rising over the headlands makes a pathway of golden light to the shore today the fog was dense and i could just see two figures walking in the distance until they vanished into the mist leaving a pair of footprints in the sand until the incoming tide washed them away it made me wonder what will remain in a hundred years when my grandchildren s grandchildren are alive will the rising sea have covered the dunes climate crisis will by then be a constant partner and so many of today s dramas will be lost in a vaster landscape of primal change sensing this reshaping of the seashore where the waves roll in from across the pacific makes my mind stretch across horizons how this land and our own lives have evolved one story of science says it was only seventy thousand years ago that humans left africa on their long migrations across continents arriving here on the pacific coast just thirteen thousand years ago when the bering strait was dry land and not ocean or possibly they came earlier in boats down the coast 1 but how was life then long before the written word when we traveled as small groups communities of hunters and gatherers what was the consciousness of our ancestors before agriculture long before cities or our industrial way of life and what did we lose as we settled the land and then forgot it was sacred they may have carried few possessions but their consciousness contained a close relationship to the land to its plants and animals to the patterns of the weather and the seasons which they needed for their survival fully awake with all of their senses they had a knowing passed down through generations of living close to the ground even as they migrated across the continent today we are mostly far from the land and its diverse inhabitants cut off from these roots we have become more stranded than we realize and while our oncoming climate crisis may present us with many problems we hardly know how to reconnect to return our consciousness to the living earth it is as if having traveled to the far corners of our planet we now find ourselves in an increasing wasteland without knowing how to return to where the rivers flow to where the plants grow wild and unlike our ancestors we cannot just pack up and move on because this wasteland surrounds us wherever we look like the increasing mounds of plastic and other toxic material we leave in our wake and sadly tragically our consciousness has become divorced not just from the land under our feet but also from the unseen worlds that surround us anyone who looks at the animals in the paleolithic cave paintings in southern france with a receptive awareness can see that the physical and spirit world are infused together those early artists were imaging not just physical animals but spirit beings shamanic magical this is part of their mystery and intensity and this knowing continued for thousands of years whether experienced in relation with the powerful beings that for the native americans are present in all natural things invisible but everywhere or expressed through veneration of the kami the sacred spirits that exist in nature mountains rivers earthquakes thunder animals and people which until recently belonged to an elemental japanese consciousness 2 for most of our history the inner and outer worlds were woven together as shown in the myths and stories that defined our existence have we wandered so far from the source that we cannot return walking the shoreline watching the little birds searching for insects my awareness drawn to the sky the sea and the shifting sands i wonder at this gulf between the simple magical awareness of our ancestors and our present day mind as cluttered as our consumer world what has happened to our consciousness now divorced from the multidimensional existence that used to sustain us did we need to exile ourselves from this primal place of belonging and now as we tear apart the web of life with our machines and images of progress is there a calling to return to open the door that has been closed by our rational selves when the fog is dense and you can only see a few yards in front of your feet the world around becomes more elemental watching each wave come to the shore is like watching the breath sometimes my feet become wet from the rising water or i move further up the beach i try to keep my mind empty part of the sky and the waves simple essential here nothing is separate and the inner and outer worlds are closer i cannot return completely to a world in which spirit and matter are always united i carry too many images from a culture that has denied that the inner world even exists but i can live closer to this threshold this place where the waves and the sand meet i can recognize how easily our defined world can be washed away how soon the waters will rise and when many of our toys of triviality the things that clutter our houses and awareness are lost in the tsunami of climate change i can be like the moken the nomadic boat people of east asia who knew to go to deeper water when the waters rose they remembered the old stories the old ways the wisdom of their ancestors and so their boats rode out the storm unlike the fishermen who remained close to the shore and perished in the tsunami always there is this primary place of belonging in the land and in our souls it used to be a part of the way we lived how we walked and breathed crossing oceans and continents we carried it with us a lodestone for our existence for thousands and thousands of years it was an essential part of us never forgotten because how could you forget the feel of the rain on your skin or the sound of water flowing over stones how could you forget the stories and songs passed down through the generations it is only very recently in our human history only a few hundred years amidst thousands that we forgot that we lost this thread that our mind ceased to be a part of both the land and the unseen worlds that we forgot that everything we can see and touch is sacred and in our forgetting no longer inhabited a world in which everything was alive with spirit the wind and the rain the plants and animals have we wandered so far from the source that we cannot return will climate crisis isolate us even more in our cities as nature becomes more unpredictable as we try to use our science our computers to save us or is the doorway to return nearer than we know just as in that moment when we awake and our dreams are still present before they are lost with the daylight what would it mean to return to this numinous land alive in ways we no longer understand where the earth can speak to us in its many voices or more vital can we transition through this present self created crisis without this inner and outer knowing without this awareness that was central to so much of our human journey it is easy to dismiss the magical world as just a fairy tale belonging to childhood or old tales to maintain that what we need at this moment more than ever is hard science that carbon reduction and loss of biodiversity are our most pressing concerns and yes there is important work to be done reducing our industrial imprint restoring wetlands and wild places but if we do not remove the rational blinkers from our consciousness how can we respond to the deeper need of the moment and recognize that we are part of a fully animate world if we are to become partners with the earth living our shared journey we have to once again speak the same language listen with our senses attuned not just to the physical world but also to its inner dimension we cannot afford to continue to dismiss so much of our heritage the thousands of years we were awake to an environment both seen and unseen and yet this knowing has been censored so effectively from our present mind that we do not even know how to read the signs how to look and listen how to be in the space where dreams are woven into consciousness we may speak about the need for a new story one that is not based upon exploitation and greed but recognizes the interdependent oneness of the living world but real stories arise from the inner worlds only then do they carry the numinous power that can change a civilization myths are not rational but belong to a deeper dimension of our psyche we can see the emotive power of the false stories that surround us whether the recent myth of endless economic growth that is the foundation of our consumer world or the more recent distortions of social media that grip our collective consciousness we are living these pathological stories without fully recognizing how much we respond to their emotive and psychic power the cold facts about climate change and loss of species have not changed our behavior while conspiracy theories and stories of stolen elections have seized our beliefs is our collective consciousness only open to dark myths such as the kraken a tentacled creature of norse mythology that arises from the deep swallowing ships 3 now as we stand at this crossroads do we have to wait for our present society to fall apart are we caught in too many patterns of social and economic divisiveness where do we find the hidden gateway into the garden a place where we are no longer exiles in our own land living by the sweat of our brow but can hear and then live the songlines of the land where dreaming nourishes our daily life our ancestors are still all around us in our dna in the land in the spirits still present behind the veils of our rational self in the millennia of our human history it is only a few years since most of us divorced ourselves from these companions and decided to walk alone unaccompanied no longer understanding our primal relationship to the earth and her ways no longer speaking the same language singing her songs and those few who carried that remembrance experienced the suffering and pain of that separation as they struggled to stay true to the songs dreams and ceremonies in a world increasingly covered with enforced forgetfulness is it enough just to acknowledge that our ancestors lived in an animate world that is still around us even if invisible to our eyes intangible to our other senses they lived in a world of kinship on many levels not masters not the dominant species but part of a living tapestry just one species among many in which the hunter asked the spirit of the animal for permission to hunt 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