Gardening With Nature

Two things became clear to me last week – both part of a transformation that’s shaking every corner of my life. I’m going to share them here, because moving forward, I expect this website to take a turn – along with the rest of me!
The first insight came at the depths of my frustration with [...]

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Eliot Cowan Quotes
• There is only one active ingredient in plant medicine – friendship. A plant spirit heals a patient as a favor to its friend-in-dreaming, the doctor.
• Shamans make friends of the spirits of nature and call upon them for help with everyday affairs.
• Plants have spirit… spirit is the strongest medicine. Spirit can heal [...]

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Here are the co-creative gardening rules of engagement between Nature Spirits and Human Spirits:
• Complete honesty
• Love – all work flows from a loving attitude
• Trust
• Work hard to fulfill agreements
• Joy – keep a joyful heart
• Observe – look carefully – see into
• Adding unto – for mutual benefit
• Life – honor all life
• Obey Gaia – the final word
• Harvest – for sustainability

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Life has never been limited to the narrowband emissions that we use for radios and televisions; it has always used broadband – the whole electromagnetic spectrum. The number of frequencies that carry information that life can detect is thus exceptionally large.
All organisms, in fact, possess mechanisms to ‘fine tune’ their internal electromagnetic dial in order [...]

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We humans have been living with plants our entire existence. Let’s pause for a moment and recap a few lessons we ought to have learned.
First, life on the planet is simply not possible for us without plants.
We’ve learned a lot about plants and nature. We’ve had to in order to survive. Through it [...]

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I’ve been wondering about whether or not to feed the birds. The owner of our rental house took care to point out to me the bird feeder hanging from a pine in our front yard, showing me how you can see it perfectly from the living room, and telling me about the joy of watching [...]

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Here’s a treat – a wonderful 16-minute video that describes the movement to the garden. As you’re listening to the eloquent speakers and seeing the magnificent gardens created in ghettos, around schools, and in prisons, try to be in touch with your feelings.
Gardeners of the Spirit

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Some time ago, Nature gave me the rules of engagement for co-creative gardening. You can find them by clicking on the link in the nav bar on your right.
Recently though, as I’ve learned more about interspecies communication and noticed my relationship with Nature changing, I’ve felt something missing. Following the rules of engagement and practicing [...]

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