Ecopsychology

by Katie Vincent Sister of the Wellspring, unshorn lover drowse us deep in your fields of wild flowers in your practiced hands carving the altar of lush, uncaptured streams who know babbling desire. soften us to burning beauty. image credit: OARS catalog (2019)

Charlene is a contributor to my Green Horizon Magazine. Recently the European Journal of Ecopsychology published the following article: “Dynamic Interrelatedness in an Era of Disasters” https://ecopsychology-journal.eu/v8/EJE%20v8_Spretnak.pdf Abstract: We are approaching initial tipping points in the climate crisis, which denote irreversible destabilization in climate patterns and extreme weather events. The…

The Four Taboos of Environmental Education © Joe Franke There was a lot to be distressed about in 2019, but for me the news that upset me the most was the announcement of the closing of the Fox Island environmental education center, a once thriving program based in a 100-year-old…

Exploring how a disconnection from Nature, Spirit and spiritual practices is at the core of the epidemic of depression and anxiety. “There is an awakening underway today to many of the values of nature and the risks and costs of its loss.” — Gretchen Daily It is perfectly normal to…

Our bodies imbibe the poetry of the day just passed In their own language, the grass, the hay and the fallen chestnuts wrote spicy poems on my skin revealing to me that the tongue is not the only taste organ and that poems are firstly smelled and touched and felt They would even scratch your skin to go deeper… In his own language, the sun wrote one big poem and released it into the atmosphere so that everything that moves above the ground receives it in their particular way of receiving inside their own poetic inner chemistry… My body received it as a large steady smile that stretches from my gut to my lips and goes beyond, to other bodies: the body of the lake, the trees, and the bodies of humans and beyond… All the poems of the world are now written into my body.

Happy Winter Solstice! — 🌚 Intelligibility and communication with the more-than-human. 🌚 Concerning prophecies, riddles, and parables and how they touch the heart. 🌚 About not always being clearly understood, nor understanding everything linearly. 🌚 About the deep need to be genuinely indecipherable and unintelligible. 🌚 Regarding the shape-shifting through living discourse centered in…