We need a new Dream of the Earth. What humans are projecting onto the planet is a deep spiritual disconnect, a profound alienation, and assertion of power and aggressiveness that has made our human dream a nightmare. This manifests a loss of soul. We need a new Dream, a new story, one that can reshape our relationships within Gaia so that together we can heal from so much destruction. We invite you to dream with us in 2014!
Tags: athabasca river, christmas, climate change, crisis of meaning, dreams of the earth, ensouled, gaia, mother earth, solstice, the great turning
The story of the Athabasca River Pilgrimage, a photo essay with video. This is my meditation on our journey from Canada’s Rocky Mountains to the tar sands and back again. Hard to believe what we are doing to this beautiful Earth. Hard to believe. Just so hard to believe.
Tags: alberta tar sands, athabasca falls, athabasca river, ft mckay, ft. mcmurray, global warming, jasper national park, Lake Louise, receding glaciers, syncrude, tailings pond, tar sands industry
They don’t really go together, do they? One cancels out the other. That’s what we’ve come to. That’s the moment in which we humans are living now. We have to decide which direction we’re going in.
Tags: alberta oil sands, anthropocene, athabasca river, climate change, columbia icefields, ft. mcmurray, global warming, intergovernmental panel on climate change, melting glaciers
Friends, “changed” barely begins to describe the inner journey that went in tandem with the outer – the pilgrimage along the Athabasca River from its origins in the Columbia Icefields inside Jasper National Park to the tar sands industrial site in the region of Ft. McMurray and Ft. McKay. Read on…
Tags: alberta oil sands, athabasca river, boreal forest, columbia icefield, first nation cree, ft mccaky, ft. mcmurray, jasper national park, joanna macy