#1-5 The NATURE OF US
THE NATURE OF US
Hi everyone, I have collected my first five essays for easy access, in case you want to review - or perhaps share The Nature of Us with a friend, husband, wife, daughter, father, or group. It’s also a celebration for me of having created my first 5 weeks of a Substack.
The Nature of Us
Welcome to my new Substack page! Thank you for joining me here today. In future posts I’ll be writing on all the above, with a focus on the possibilities of being human in this time, and moving forward to envision and create a better world for all of us - interconnected and aligned with nature.
A subtle sense of interrelatedness`
Western cultures experienced what I would call a fall from grace when it lost the subtle sense of interrelatedness with the rest of the natural world, which traditional indigenous cultures have maintained. These words of Charlene Spretnak, in an interview with Derrick Jensen from his book
Coming home
There is a love that runs through us arising from the source of everything which nourishes the world. It can be most tangibly felt in nature. This love aligns our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical levels - and it expresses through our physical bodies. Unless it is conditioned out of us, we are inherently drawn to what we love. As we grow and in…
Sea of Rhythms
Sometimes when I am very silent feeling my heart, I notice the breath rising like a wave upon the shore, ever so slowly washing in, rising from the silence again and again. This fundamental rhythm, so very gentle and intimate, seems to emerge from the mysterious source of me, dark, still and deeply reassuring.
On the Beauty of Us
In The Great Work, Thomas Berry speaks of the intimacy the indigenous people had with the land. Each part of nature was experienced as a personal other. And he writes of the alluring nature of wild beauty: Only if the human imagination is activated by the flight of the great soaring birds to the heavens, by the blossoming flowers of the Earth, by the sig…
Thanks for reading! More coming every week - this is a record of how it all began.
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Great recap! Thanks for putting this together, Sabrina.