(image) Where are the places you hold most sacred? Is there a special place you once visited on a journey, maybe where you fell in love for the first time? Perhaps your home is sacred to you – quiet moments spent by the fire, or the liveliness of family and friends. Is it the ocean? A forest? A monastery? Our sacred places give us refuge and we know them intimately. To see a place we love desecrated or irrevocably changed can be heartbreaking. Often, we will do anything we can to protect and take care of a place sacred to us.
This is how we will heal the Earth, and ourselves – through deep love and intimate local knowledge of her waters and soils, her moods and changing conditions. When the Earth is sacred to us again, we will do what is required to mend our relationship with her, even if it means giving up certain habits or goals that once mattered: more money, a bigger house, or a way of life dependent on fossil fuels. When we remember that our bodies and the Earth-body are inseparable, we will hear her cry and feel her pain as our own. And we will not turn away.
Nitin Das has devoted many years educating about the positive effects of time spent in nature, especially in our forests. His new film, India’s Healing Forests, explores fascinating forests across India and the remarkable ways in which forests can help heal people.
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The Tamera Peace Research & Education Center in Portugal is hosting the Defend the Sacred international activist gathering in August to give rise to a global alliance and strengthen the common vision of a healed Earth beyond all local differences.
On a beach near Lisbon, an aerial art action, facilitated by John Quigley, will occur on August 4, in opposition to planned fossil fuel exploration in Portugal. Learn more about the campaign.
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While this will be an artistic protest, it is also planned as a deep prayer ritual, an offering of love and service to the Earth. At the center of the prayer will be a collective intention for the ‘right balance’ between water and fire, feminine and masculine. Standing Rock leaders and other Indigenous elders will be present to help reawaken the memory of original tribal knowledge as the seed of an upcoming planetary peace culture.
“By tapping into a primordial memory in our hearts, our inherent tribal knowledge, we will see the emergence of humane societies in the future. Let us leave behind any kind of domination and enter into cooperation with all that lives.” – Sabine Lichtenfels
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via Tamera Peace Research & Education Center The Tamera Peace Research & Education Center in Portugal is hosting the Defend the Sacred international activist gathering […]
By Larry Robinson
Kosmos Quarterly | Summer 2018
In these awe-filled days of fire and flood
We watch and wait and wonder…
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