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Earth Shamans Welcomes Caroline Reese

1/11/2022

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Wellness is more than being free from illness: it is a process of change and growth towards a mentally and physically healthy lifestyle. - Caroline Reese
Earth Shamans is delighted to welcome reiki master and sound healer Caroline Reese. Caroline is an intuitive energy reader, yoga and wellness coach, and meditation facilitator inspired by the Brahma Kumaris form of meditation, focusing on identity as souls instead of bodies. Caroline completed the Success Principles: Train the Trainer Certification Program with Jack Canfield and worked as a research and teaching assistant while obtaining her master's degree in communication from Marquette University. Her journey continued with certification as a sound healing practitioner through Globe Institute - the Sound and Consciousness Program.

Caroline's personal journey informs her work. She works with people who struggle with negative emotions due to limiting beliefs, trauma, loss of a loved one(s), relationship conflicts, and self-esteem. Being familiar with negative self-talk, overwhelming situations, depression, anxiety, relationship conflicts, and body dysmorphia. In her own words, "I can relate to what emotional stress can do, and can share modalities to encourage healing." Caroline is a heart-centered healing practitioner, has founded Wellness Collective Satori324 in Milwaukee, WI, and is now based in Lanai, HI. Welcome to Earth Shamans, Caroline!
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Earth Shamans Welcomes Apela Colorado

8/22/2021

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With great joy and respect, Earth Shamans welcomes Apela Colorado, the ground-breaking visionary founder of the Indigenous Mind Program and the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network. Apela's work is earth-affirming through environmental and animal conservation, conservation of traditional wisdom, bridging cultures, and enabling students from all cultures—with the assistance of indigenous healers—to be restored to the holistic mind of their Ancestors, and to ground that wisdom with the help of technology and science in applications for today’s time. Her new book, Woman Between the Worlds: A Call to Your Ancestral and Indigenous Wisdom, is now available. Welcome Apela!

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Earth Shamans Welcomes Anne Baring

8/22/2021

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Earth Shamans is deeply honored to welcome Anne Baring, a pioneer in the restoration of the feminine archetype, a mystic, writer and woman of deep wisdom and insight devoted to the affirmation of a new vision of reality and the issues facing us at this crucial time of choice. Anne calls to us: "The time has come when, if we are to survive as a species, we have to change our relationship with the planet; change it from exploitation and dominance to care and service. This pandemic is a supreme opportunity to recognize the harm we have done to it, to create a new kind of civilization based on entirely different values and beliefs. This involves an alchemical transformation of what we are into what we are capable of becoming." Her latest book, The Dream of the Cosmos, is the story of a multi-layered quest to understand the causes of human suffering and to reconnect with a deeper reality than the one we inhabit in this physical dimension of experience. Welcome Anne!

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Tribute to Lawrence Bloom

8/21/2021

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"In short we require nothing less than a shift to a higher consciousness requiring our worldview to embrace a deep knowing of our interdependence with each other and the whole of nature. This shift moves us from the evolution of consciousness to conscious evolution. We become aware not only of our rights , but also our responsibilities. The unconscious trajectory that has taken us this far shifts to enable us to connect cause with effect and begin to seriously take charge of “cause” in our lives. We are trustees for all, not blind competitors and we must commit to this aspiration." - Lawrence Bloom
It is with deep sadness that we bid farewell to fellow Earth Shaman Lawrence Bloom, who passed away last week. Lawrence was a kind, compassionate global visionary and a delightful human being who inspired so many. May his legacy and vision live on. Rest In Peace, Lawrence.
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Earth Shamans Welcomes Peggy Rubin

7/13/2021

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Earth Shamans is delighted to welcome Peggy Rubin. Peggy's work is at the intersection of art and the sacred, where life is a sacred art form. Through her teaching, writing, speaking, and storytelling, Peggy celebrates joy, the sacred feminine, human development and transformation.

"Stories become a mirror in which we see the great patterns and deep truths that transcend the mere facts of our individual existence." - Peggy Rubin

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Earth Shamans Founders to Give Opening Presentation at the Virtual TLS Gathering

8/21/2020

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Laura Esculcas and Calen Rayne, Earth Shamans co-founders, will be giving the opening presentation at The Labyrinth Society Virtual Gathering on September 26, 2020.

In their presentation, Dromenons Reimagined: Heart, Mind, and the Music of the Spheres, we will connect heart and mind on the labyrinth, a morphogenic field connecting all labyrinths and people who have walked them, our ancestral voices singing in harmony with the music of the spheres.  Dromenon, mandala, and labyrinth return us to our sacred center during a journey of reconnection and renewal that restores whole-ness or holy-ness.

​Along with Calen and Laura, presenters at the gathering include a diverse line up of labyrinth experts from around the globe:  Jean Houston, Tony Christie, Ronald Esquivel, Frank Faine, Sadelle Wiltshire, Erica Duthie and Struan Ashby. 
Registration is now open on the TLS website: 
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Earth Shamans Welcomes Lawrence Bloom

7/22/2020

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Lawrence Bloom's inquisitive nature has led him on a most amazing life's journey. He has taken the Bodhisattva Initiation direct from the Dalai Lama in Dharamshala, and been on pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash with Sadhguru. He has spent seven days of intense initiation with both the Kogi at Santa Marta, Columbia, and with the Pygmies in Gabon. He also has had time to sit on the executive committee of a multinational company; developed a sustainability manual with HRH Prince Charles; Chaired a Global Agenda Council in Davos, and a UN Council on Green Cities. He is Secretary General of a UN Intergovernmental Organization, Co Founder of a hotel Joint Venture with the Universal Music Group, and was been twice voted as one of the worlds most conscious and inspiring leaders. He should have died in a train crash close to Machu Picchu in June 1991​.... but didn’t. Link to Lawrence's website.
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NEW Online Workshop on August 20, 2020

7/20/2020

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​Join our NEW 
Online Workshop

Discovering the Genesis Point

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​August 20, 2020
1pm EDT / 6pm GMT​​
Reserve your spot
Access the field of consciousness of the land through the Genesis Point and walk the labyrinth. The primary focus of this workshop is to show participants how to identify the Genesis Point and introduce three practical methods that engage labyrinth field energetics to catalyze the labyrinth experience.  In this experiential workshop, you will learn three methods of working with labyrinth field energetics that will inspire you to branch out on your path of spiritual growth. This 90-minute workshop is taught by Calen Rayne and Laura Esculcas for labyrinth facilitators. Contact us to reserve your spot now.
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Energetics of Art Online at Ubiquity University

7/10/2020

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An artist can use art to enable people to enter a spiritual plane of consciousness that supports them in communing with their own individual interpretation of God or Spirit. According to our deepest and most ancient spiritual traditions wisdom, creativity, and healing are intimately connected. It is wisdom that concerns our relationship to the whole, to the cosmos, to nature, and to both feminine and masculine powers of nature. Theologian Matthew Fox views wisdom and creativity as being inseparable, and believes that “creativity may be the nearest one-word definition we possess for the essence of our humanity, for the true meaning of ‘soul’.”​

Learn More and Take this Course!
This course by Earth Shamans Co-founders Laura Esculcas and Calen Rayne is now an ongoing offering that you can sign up for at Ubiquity University. Work at your own pace and have the opportunity to participate in a live session with Calen and Laura a few times a year. Check here for the next live webinar and register. For maximum benefit, complete the pre-recorded sessions and prepare your final project for the live webinar.
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Earth Shamans Welcomes Liz Dawes

5/10/2020

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Liz Dawes is a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide. Originally from Lancashire, UK, Liz has travelled extensively, spending many years living in India, trekking the Himalaya, attending silent retreats and personal development courses, taking her on a fascinating journey of self knowledge and understanding.  She lived in the Netherlands before returning to Lancashire to study Law and French. This took her to London where she practised law for 11 years. In 2012, Liz discovered mindfulness and developed her own mindfulness practice and trained to teach mindfulness courses. She taught mindfulness in India and the UK and had a private practice working with individuals and corporations.  
Liz was drawn to find a practice that combined her extensive mindfulness practice with her love of nature, and is now  trained and certified by the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. Link to Liz’s website
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Hierogram of the Day

3/27/2020

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Hierogram of the Day

3/20/2020

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Hierogram of the Day

3/16/2020

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Hierogram of the Day

3/14/2020

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Hierogram of the Day

3/13/2020

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Hierogram of the Day

3/10/2020

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Earth Shamans Welcomes Janel Joseph

3/6/2018

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Janel Joseph is a Business Consultant and Executive Coach in Austin, Texas with over 20 years of global experience working with leaders to get results.  Janel completed Kundalini Yoga certification and is a certified coach through the International Coach Federation. Her exploration of yoga, labyrinths, feng shui, sacred geometry, and other meditative art forms provides her with unique insights in how to best address needs of her clients. Janel has collaborated and coached leaders on aligning talent to strategy, culture change, organization development, facilitating solutions through strategic sessions and targeted leadership development. Her straight forward approach to collaborating and finding solutions is thoughtful, innovative and helpful. Janel’s passion is helping leaders define individual success and build high-trust environments.  Her work has evolved to include neuroscience based behavioral techniques and the use of breathing and yoga to create sustainable changes. Link to Janel's website.
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Earth Shamans Welcomes Banafsheh Sayyad

3/1/2018

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Banafsheh Sayyad The Founder of Dance of Oneness®, Banafsheh is a Persian sacred dancer, choreographer, transformational teacher and practitioner of Chinese Medicine. Awarded for her innovative movement vocabulary, she is an innovator of Sufi dance previously only performed by men. Her Dance of Oneness® is dance as a spiritual path and science of embodiment. It fuses the art of dance: rigorous technique and selfexpression; wisdom teachings; and healing. Banafsheh performs and teaches internationally, initiating people into the wisdom of their body and inspiring them to live the sacred in everyday life. With an MFA in Dance and an MA in Chinese Medicine, she is dedicated to individual and collective healing through conscious movement. Her dance film In the Fire of Grace traces Rumi's journey of the Soul in dance.
Link to Banafshesh's website.
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Earth Shamans Welcomes Jain 108

11/15/2017

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Jain 108 is a teacher, author of 30 fascinating books, some beautifully hand-written in calligraphy, and creator of 10 dvds. Jain has always been drawn to the spiritual and mystical. He is fascinated by numbers and shapes. The main theme of his life's work is "The Translation Of Numbers Into Atomic Art". Jain is an international lecturer, having taught in the USA, Amsterdam, Italy, India, Singapore, Malaysia, France. He is current teaches seasonally in Singapore where he has set up a school called The Joy of Numbers Institute. Teaching the Beauty of Numbers, often to dyslexic or special needs children, Jain's math enrichment classes are in high demand. In between overseas travels, Jain teaches hundreds of children in Austrailia's Byron Bay a highly visual content of lessons called Mathemagics. Jain was one of the main speakers at the 2017 Chartres Cathedral Wisdom University on the topic Arithmetica, one of the 7 Liberal Arts. Link to Jain's website
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sound of ancient flutes

9/10/2017

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Composed by our resident poet Calen Rayne, this powerful poem-prayer is a gift to hold us up during these tempestuous days.

we are in times of distress
thinking of hometowns
as moonlight etches water’s curves
swallows departing
silence of untouched waters
moment by moment
winds and waves will follow flow
now there’s nothing else
longing and finding no road
waves keep on coming
in the morning still raining
curtains in the wind
each day now further away
no way to return
ancient graves under water
long to return home
downpour, downpour, my tears drop
now drenching my clothes
 
rinsed by these flowing waters
walk to source of stream
we flow from great beyond
we come together
as clear sounds of ancient flutes
voice songs into sky
heaven and earth merge again
rains suddenly still
souls immersed in paradox
create new patterns
traces of transformation
emerge from silence
nourished by a mystery
 
© Calen Rayne  2017
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the story all around us

9/9/2017

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Earth Shaman Calen Rayne wrote in 2005 how his experience with the force of Mother Nature during hurricane Ivan influenced his view of our role as a human species. As hurricane Irma bears down on Florida, his words resonate powerfully with us today.
​To download a pdf of this article from Calen's website raynemaker.com, click here. Copyright Calen Rayne: All rights reserved.

living in balance

by Calen Rayne 

Story has the ability, if we observe and listen, to share with us a nearly 14 billion year old cosmic birthing, and to help us see where we fit into the fabric of that same unfolding Story. We are all a “part and parcel” of the cosmic essence, sharing the same DNA with every other living being, and thus sharing the same Story. Midrash Hane’elam offers this observation: 
Every human is comprised of the qualities of every other being on the planet. We are not made solely in the “Image of God” but just as much in the image of all that surrounds us, stones, plants, animals, the galactic beings, as well as in the image of all the chaos and ultimate clarity that went into creating our universe. 1

Story has reinforced my understanding of the cosmos as a single, continually unfolding multiform event, one that continues to manifest primordial energy in new and mysterious ways. What we must understand is that we are not here to control nature for our own benefit, but to engage co-operatively with nature in a compassionate manner.
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In the Neolithic period, 
There was from the beginning a mystique of participation in the cosmological order of the universe thought of not as mechanism, but as a vast dramatic enterprise of interacting spiritual forces, all expressions of the abiding presence of the Great Mother deity. Humans were expected not simply to take from nature but to enter into the productive processes of nature. 2
Where some old theologies may have deemed that everything in the cosmos was produced by the hand of God, and that God’s will is being done, newer theologies, have a different focus. Often drawing from ancient traditions, they invite us to serve as co-creators during our earthly stay, thus bringing more challenge and joy into our existence. In his book, Wrestling with the Prophets, Matthew Fox speaks of one remarkable scientist who knew the nature of our relationship with our cosmos and how “Cosmology awakens our awe of being here.” 3
In my opinion it is no accident that Einstein was a Jew and thus had imbibed the Jewish spirituality from Wisdom literature, which taught that the “spirit of the Lord fills the entire universe.” Jewish cosmology teaches that the universe is one and that we are part of it and can know our place in it. 4
But just maybe we need to learn to rely not on any particular spiritual tradition, but on our own sense of what needs to be done, to listen individually to what our cosmos is telling us. As Kaballalist Eruvin in the Babylonian Talmud puts it, ““Religion is nice, but even without all that divine revelatory hullabaloo, the Creator left us enough information in the earth about how to live in balance.” ​​5
I believe we are capable of sharing the cosmos and allowing creation to continue to unfold in an ordered, meaningful and noble fashion. Maybe we are indeed in the eighth day of the created order as one religionist wrote. “What does God do all day long?” Meister Eckhart asks. He answers, “God gives birth. From all eternity God lies on a maternity bed giving birth.” 6

This process is called cosmogenesis. Brianne Swimme and Thomas Berry discuss this concept in “the Universe Story.” 
   The most significant change in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it seems, is our passage from a sense of cosmos to cosmogenesis. Only now do we begin to understand that this story of the Earth is also the story of the human, as well as the story of every being of Earth. The final benefit of this story might be to enable the human community to become present to the larger Earth community in a mutually enhancing manner. ...the goal is to read the story taking place all around us. 7
The fear is that most of us are still operating on far fewer spiritual cylinders than are needed to “read the story” and then be capable of motoring this universe in a compassionate manner. In Matthew’s account of the resurrection it is an earthquake and an angel that allows the women to see the opened tomb and to realize what had happened. Earthquakes are Mother Nature’s way of coming back to life in a way that grabs our attention with a display of “brute force.” She can also do it gently by insisting that a flower grow through a concrete sidewalk. Having experienced and survived the flood brought to North Carolina by Hurricane Ivan in 2004, I am acutely aware of the “brute force” doctrine, and more in touch with what our cosmos is trying to tell us. Ivan demonstrated in ways of a more personal nature that I am still processing “how Story has affected my life.” 
In spite of a dam to send water away from our 4000 square foot warehouse apartment/studio, and a trench to guide water underground around the structure, the raging waters knocked down a 200 year old hemlock tree to change the course of the “Big Ivy River,” normally a trickling creek. My wife Jini and I were inside with flashlights trying to save a few items when waters came rushing into the building. 
I screamed at her to leave as the concrete foundation wall collapsed in my studio, and I ran out as the furniture crashed a few feet behind me. Jini went in water over her waist when she stepped in the now collapsed trench, and only the aging Lab Yosa swimming in front kept her from being swept down the river. I pulled her from the hole and pushed her on the bank as a tree limb crashed into my leg, and after spinning around, I fell toward the bank and she grabbed my arm and pulled me out of the swirling waters.
It didn’t matter that meteorologists had predicted a crest the following evening, because at 1:00am, the cosmos decided that rain needed to be dumped in large quantity and move quickly down a mountain in North Carolina, and nothing man-made was going to stop it. As we sat and watched five feet of water spin around for an hour inside the warehouse destroying everything we had, until a bridge finally snapped in two to release the waters, the message from the cosmos was quite clear. And regardless of our attempts to manipulate our physical environments the message is always the same. “I will live.” 
Sitting beside this scene in a driving rain storm, there was little to do but pray. For me, prayer is not asking for anything, it is seeking my place in the unfolding mystery of the cosmic order. Gabriel Marcel “suggests that we postindustrial adults become so programmed to solving problems that we lose our capacity to wonder and become ecstatic at mysteries. A mystery, on the other hand, is something in which I find myself caught up and whose essence is therefore not to be before me in its entirety.” 8  I find myself, as I did sitting beside the river that night, caught up in the mystery of primordial energy unfolding the story of creation around me, and am at times in awe of its power, as I was during that time of the flood. 
It would seem we may be cursed by our oft times myopic anthropocentrism —namely, the conviction that we humans are the center of the universe. Maybe it is still possible to promote primarily human matters as being of ultimate concern without arrogantly claiming to be the sole or even featured species in the cosmos. As members of an immense web of life, we are interconnected with all forms of life in the universe.
Like it or not, we must begin with our very human possibilities and limitations. Kaballistic teachings remind us that our task is great, too great for us as individuals, but not to be ignored: 
Don’t take the burdens of the world’s problems upon yourself. Don’t ignore them either. As Rabbi Tar’fon put it: “The work is not upon you to complete, but neither are you exempt from trying.” 9
We are indeed merely stewards of the gifts bequeathed us, be they spiritual, intellectual or economic resources. And as stewards we are more than brokers. During our time of possession, we stewards have an opportunity to handle life with a more creative touch. ​
We are not sole and ultimate determiners of history, even though we like to think of ourselves in that way. But we are not pawns either. We are collaborators. Our role in the unfolding of the cosmos is to be not only “Takers,” as Ishmael referred to us, but “Leavers” in the spirit of a long ago people, participants and co-creators if you will of this “eighth day of creation.” For ”Takers” to become “Leavers” will be difficult. 
But it’s not going to be easy for the Takers. It’s going to be hard as hell for them to give up, because what they’re doing is right, and they have to go on doing it even if it means destroying the world and mankind with it. Giving it up would mean... It would mean all along they’d been wrong. It would mean they’d never known how to rule the world. It would mean... relinquishing their pretensions to godhood. It would mean spitting out the fruit of that tree and giving the rule of the world back to the gods. 10 

It seems possible that our species indeed needs to come to quickly acknowledge and understand that it is part of an unfolding spiritual story, and that it must direct its energies toward a successful outcome for that story, to “enter into the productive processes of nature.” I believe we are all indispensable, that we are all part of “the plan.” 
In “The Universe Story” we are told that, 
The vibrations and fluctuations in the universe are the music that drew forth the galaxies and stars and their powers of weaving elements into life. Our human responsibility as one voice among so many throughout the universe is to develop our capacities to listen as incessantly as the hovering hydrogen atoms, as profoundly as our primal ancestors and their faithful descendents in today’s indigenous peoples. The adventure of the universe depends on our capacity to listen.  11
I once heard a symphony orchestra perform a lengthy piece, and took note of the man sitting in the back simply turning page after page intently and not contributing. But twenty or so minutes into the piece, he adjusted his tuxedo and picked up a small triangle. As the orchestra reached a crescendo, he tapped the triangle once, and then sat back down, his “contribution” finished for the evening. 
That “ping” may have seemed insignificant to many listeners, but in the mind of the composer, something would be lost without that moment. Each of us is that “ping,” and this world needs our imagination and attention and works to enable the unfolding story of creation to continue to manifest with our survival as a species. Hildegard of Bingen speaks of the music, “God, I am your opus. Before the beginning of time, already then, I was in your mind.” 12 
There was a story once in a Tennessee newspaper about a young girl about to step into the tub when the new hot water heater exploded behind a nearby wall. Without anything to cover her, she ran outside. Her parents gathered up the other children, then contacted help to battle the blaze. They didn’t realize the older child was missing at first. When they could not find her, volunteers searched through the night until the hounds led them back to the charred ruins of the house. There, beneath the porch, the little girl was asleep, wrapped in an old grain sack. “Why did you run away?” her father asked. “I didn’t want to live where things like that can happen!” she replied, with tears in her eyes. “But you came back,” said her mother. “When I got to the top of the hills, I could see there was no place else to go,” said the girl, “Just now this is the only home I have.” 
We must come to the realization we, too, are approaching the top of a similar hill, and that Earth is “just now the only home we have,” and decide whether our home is one we will cherish and care for, or whether it will be destroyed, possibly along with us, by our continued neglect. But the earth and our entire cosmos is more than “just a home.” Matthew Fox reminds us, “The universe and the ecosystems are not just our home; they are sources of delight and awe, of wonder and intoxication. Therefore, they are the matrix for a renewed mysticism, for to enter these mysteries, as cosmologists are now naming them, is a mystical experience.” 13 
It must be our shared spiritual vision, and task, to cherish, humbly and gratefully, this home we have been given, and make ourselves more spiritually capable of living fully and responsibly in it. As we learn in The Universe Story, ”There is eventually only one story, the story of the universe.” 14  And further, that “The well-being of the Earth is primary. The well-being of the Human is derivative.” 15 
There is an order of reality present—which calls for our trust and reverence, and for our faith and commitment. For those who would
listen, our cosmos has a solemn message, “listen to me and I will teach you.”  Thomas Berry offers the following advice,
Our best procedure might be to consider that we need not a human answer to an earth problem, but an earth answer to an earth problem. The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we let the earth function in its own ways. We need only listen to what the earth is telling us. 16 
Whether we continue to survive as a species is open for debate, and it depends in large part on whether we are willing to listen, and to accept the teachings of our cosmos. In the most mundane portion of our daily schedule we can discover great wonder and unveil incredible mystery. We need to engage our exploding, evolving universe right now, and every day. We must investigate the process of becoming in all thoroughness, lest we mistake for primitive what is a natural and necessary unfolding of the cosmic mystery before us, and for natural what is actually part of the artificiality of what some would call “man-made progress.” 
It has been said that “The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.” 17  We have the ability to postpone global extinction through the practice of compassion, both toward our cosmos and each other. This is the very essence of Via Transformativa. For what else were we created? 
Reprinted with permission from Calen Rayne. Copyright Calen Rayne: All rights reserved.
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Winkler, G. (2004). Kaballah 365: Daily Fruit From The Tree Of Life. Kansas City, MO, Andrews McMeel Publishing, p.61.

2 Swimme, B. and T. Berry (1992). The Universe Story. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, p. 168.
3 Fox, M. (2003). Wrestling With The Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life. New York, New York, Jeremy P. Tarcher / Putnam, p. 9.
4 Ibid., p. 9.
5 Winkler, p. 41.
6 Fox, M., Wrestling With The Prophets, p. 12.
7 Swimme, B. and T. Berry, p. 2,3.
8 Fox, M. (2001). Prayer: A Radical Response to Life. New York, NY, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, p. 29.
9 Winkler, p. 228.
10 , Quinn, D. (1992). Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit. New York, New York, Bantam / Turner, p. 168
11 Swimme, B. and T. Berry, p. 44.
12 Uhlein, G. (1983). Meditations With Hildegard of Bingen. Rochester, Vermont, Bear &Company, p. 94.
13 Fox, M., Wrestling With The Prophets, p. 57.
14 Swimme, B. and T. Berry, p. 268.
15 Swimme, B. and T. Berry, p. 243
16 Berry, T. (1998). The DREAM of the EARTH. San Francisco, Sierra Club Books, p. 35.
17 Shrager, E. F.-K. a. D. S. (2003). A Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Quotations. New York, Barnes and Noble Inc., p. 102. 
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on a journey joined

6/20/2016

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Composed by our resident poet Calen Rayne, this poem is a gift to today's graduating class from Wisdom School of Graduate Studies. May it be an inspiration and a blessing for everyone on this auspicious summer solstice.
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on a journey joined
ancients we admire
created roots of knowledge
wisdom ecofields
now birth a divine chaos
beneath this full moon
on stonehenge summer solstice
in sacred space
we sit together and breathe
as silence subsides
a conversation begins
divine power speaks
we weave light into our words
we make truth our home
only this moment is pure
sacred nourishment
our music will circle earth
and join our elders
together our dreams take flight
immortality
transcending reality
we travel this road
aging consciously
in community
we design future
blueprints for integration
on a journey joined
we move forward as one
pause for reflection
listen     do you hear that sound
blues for modern daze
our music joins a chorus
singing a new song
awakening consciousness
bringing our message
live your imagination
dissolve into now
© Calen Rayne 2016
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Megaliths, Mythology, & the Poetry of Place

4/1/2016

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Imagine taking a pilgrimage to a sacred hill. Each morning and each evening, you stand upon the hill and take in the panoramic view of a mysterious and undulating city, a settlement continuously inhabited for over 2000 years. You look out at a thick, silver-blue band of water that bounds the city, a river mistaken for a sea that reflects the intangible light of this enigmatic place. You gaze toward a port and imagine the ships of Phoenician merchants who once traded their wares with the local population. You look down at hills covered in a tumble of houses and imagine the structures of Romans whose empire once extended here near the setting sun. You squint in the bright sunlight and imagine the scratching sound of quills of Jewish and Arabic scholars who preserved ancient wisdom while the rest of Europe fell into the ignorance of the dark ages. You feel the touch of a cool Atlantic breeze and imagine ancient navigators, celebrated poets and modern entrepreneurs seeking treasure of one kind or another in this mystical place. 
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Welcome to Lisbon, or Lisboa, Lis-boa, city of good-light. 

Imagine  you are joining us in October upon this sacred hill. Come experience for yourself Lisboa, and the mystical land upon which she stands: Portugal. We will be gathering on October 2nd  in a newly renovated teaching space on this sacred hill of Lisbon. Just steps from the city's Genesis point, we will begin our 2016 Pilgrimage in Mystical Portugal: Megaliths, Mythology, and the Poetry of Place 

We'll meet you there.
Namaste.
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passing travelers

3/25/2016

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passing travelers 
 
wide awake in this darkness  

we yearn for you still    

​your footprints have disappeared  

what are we to do   

our sleeves are new damp with tears  

since all things must end  

ponder this world's restless ways 

is this hour not late     

will we spend springs together 

floating bridge of dreams 

stem this flow of gushing tears 

over mountain dawn 

in cool calm of this spring day 

pray to be loving   

there is light in our gardens   

blooming everywhere 

still shining where skies are clear 
 
with a sound of wings 

human shadows pass me by  

precious budding wings 

now entirely clear of clouds

we shall not forget  

as your music circles earth  

we will sing your souls 

to eternal existence

though we remain here 

we find our hearts infinite

cosmos breathes rebirth  

return now to your true home    

© 2016 Calen Rayne




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Earth Shamans Welcomes John Saxon

3/16/2016

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John Saxon is a psychic pianist living in Franklin, Indiana. Trained in classical piano, John channels and plays the music that your soul constantly sings, music that aligns and balances your chakras, music that brings clarity and healing, music that prepares both you and the universe for your next spiritual steps.  John holds both a B.S. and M.A. in mathematics, studied piano with noted pianist Yelena Balabanova at her International Conservatory Studio, speaks Japanese, and continues his energy healing and clairvoyance studies with healing teacher Michael Tamura. Link to John's website.

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