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Archive for Cosmic Pattern – Page 6

Never Shout at a Bear

This is the introduction to a true story about a dear friend of mine, Pele Rouge of Resonance, and her profound encounter with a bear while living in the wilderness a few years ago. It’s a fabulous story, written for children, about the wisdom of nature and it’s available now on DVD (the book will be out next year).

The DVD itself is absolutely beautiful, narrated by Pele with music by Gentle Thunder & illustrations by Finnish artist Outi Kuma – I recommend you pick one up for all your beauty-loving friends, but definitely get one for all the children you know because their young hearts & minds, especially, will thrive on nature’s truth, and this will touch them directly.
 

Pattern of Wholeness

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“But all experience of beauty is experience of cosmic wholeness, of harmony. Beauty is microcosmic intuition of macrocosmic reality.”

~ Matthew Fox

Tiny Things

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I was sitting in ceremony last weekend with my friends & colleagues from the TLG, contemplating a question facing us about Restoring Wholeness. We’d each found a spot to think and be silent beside a little stream, and I chose one in the sun at the base of a tall slim tree.

Busy at my task of thinking and being silent 🙂 it took me a few minutes to slow down. When I did, I started to notice things. I saw the lazy shadows of water-skimmers on the bottom of the creekbed, a brilliant butterfly skuttered past on my left, and with a start – I suddenly saw these tiny delicate leaf skeletons that were all around me.

Neolithic Art

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You’ll know if you’ve read any of the World Cafe Stewardship Dialogue blog posts that every morning at this wonderful event was begun in ceremony, with Anne Dosher calling on the eleven directions. I was particularly struck by her evocation to the SW, addressing the Stone People, Guardians of Dreams.

This combination of stones and dreams is meaningful to me partly
because of my attraction & connection to stone circles. One of the
subtleties that most fascinates me about being in the UK & Ireland
is the pervasive presence of neolithic art. I recently blogged a brief
post (with pictures) in my Art & the Environment blog, about the stone art I experienced during my recent trip to those verdant isles.