Hello and welcome to Two Crows Flying,
A motivational podcast where I shape poetry for the soul and my inner thoughts.
I am a shamanic practitioner and ecotherapist.
I believe that connecting with Mother Earth and speaking on her behalf is a revelatory moment.
I also believe our prime function in the world is to be a steward to all our relations.
I hope you enjoy my innermost views.
Welcome to today's talk and guided meditation.
I'll be talking about deep ecology today and leading you on a deep deep journey to meet some of the teachers that coined the phrase of deep ecology.
These times require much deep thought of how we are to move forward to heal the separation we feel from Mother Earth and grow strong.
We don't always have to reach into prehistory of our ancestors that feel accessible.
There are some teachers around that are accessing the collective consciousness of this in a new manner.
Deep ecology is a philosophy of nature which sees that underlying the environmental crisis that there is a deep psychological disease stemming from the illusion of separation between humans and the rest of the natural world.
Now I'd like you to make yourself comfortable.
Settle down in your favorite chair or lie down somewhere and take a few deep breaths and close your eyes.
Take another deep in breath and come with me on a brief journey.
Let me hold your hand and let's move towards the forest taking careful steps.
In unity we move.
We gradually walk into the beautiful forest gently stepping on our Mother Earth breathing prayers the cold air making our silent words visible.
We hear birdsong and enter the lonely smell of the standing nation leaves composting.
And move deeper and deeper into the darkness of the canopy.
We walk for some time and way up ahead we see a glimmer of fire and smell the smoke.
There are many seats around this fire and we come into this beautiful sacred place and take a seat ourselves to sit down and listen.
There are faces that know how to reach into ancestry who speak the words of Mother Earth.
Joanna Macy is holding hands with John Seed.
They have tears running down their faces.
They speak in unison.
I am the rainforest protecting myself.
That part that has recently emerged into thinking.
Some of us feel the relief of a thousand years of separation dropping away when we know our true nature.
And another steps forward who is in spirit world already.
Arnonis and looks around and says ecological ideas are not enough to protect the earth.
We need an ecological identity and ecological self.
A medicine person,
A teacher stands and seems to tower over all of us and says in many tongues,
Welcome,
Welcome family.
You have finally woken up.
They take up their drum begin to play as we listen.
We are taken to a world as if we have taken Los Neros Santos.
We see the streams of energy emanating from one another.
The fire,
The trees,
The other beings.
We become aware of the sentiency of the plants.
Their indignation of being manipulated.
Their codes destroyed.
Flowers who give off fragrance to say we're ready to be pollinated.
Many,
Many years ago back in time we,
Your ancestors,
Lived closely to our mother.
We understood the nature of give and take.
We understood that like the bees we only take enough.
The shaman was the being that was asked to do ceremony when harvesting.
They crossed between reality and non-ordinary reality with their deep seeing and shared the signs of the natural world's knowledge and also called upon the guides and spirits to help the community.
The really old ways when we,
Your ancestors,
Lived in small bands of people.
A sense of reciprocal oneness existed and we also understood that we were not apart from any cycle and that our lives were as precious as the elk or earlant whose life we took to feed our family and that everything was used.
Nothing went to waste.
We understand that in your time it's very different but each of you can listen to your new teachers who live among you,
Who are accessing this collective consciousness in a new way.
Using language and methods that make sense for those of you that are emerging out of the unnatural chrysalis of the industrial mind.
As a shaman I'm telling you do not forget the spirit world.
It is there to assist you.
Call upon your shamans who can see these things.
Do ceremony because what happens in non-ordinary reality changes ordinary reality.
Use these powerful tunes to change and shift into a world where a community of reverence exists.
The drum beats cease and an elder sands called Johnseed and calls on a prayer breathes from his lips.
We call on the spirit of Gaia awakening us a sense of who we truly are.
Tiny transient blossoms on the tree of life.
Make the purpose and destiny of that tree of life our own purpose and destiny.
We look around us and see that each of us is a branch.
Some of us are shamans,
Some of us are medicine people,
Others give equal gifts to the world with feeding the hungry and living wildly close to the planet.
Poets,
Singers,
Everyone is here and you see the threads of life between you and that you are all one.
Each leaf of who you are is essential to change the state of our mother and the dignity of all our relations.
We understand what the deep ecologists are saying,
That their words and teachings are what our shamans say.
That all life forms have an intrinsic right to exist and that we need to find a new way in a dignified manner.
We awaken from the trance,
We offer tobacco unto the fire and leave the space and we bow deeply to the elders.
We bow deeply with reverence in our hearts and slowly move out of the forest into our daylight and we are moved not to forget.
Become aware of your surroundings,
Take a deep breath and give thanks to all the teachers that will share the mystical and that includes you.
And so it is,
It is so.
