Ecospirituality
It's for the Birds: Earth Day 2026
On April 12, after climbing up and down forested hillside trails, which led to various lovingly constructed, constantly changing rock altars, a group of women called Women’s Mysteries gathered around a lovely table set on the only flat spot…
Read moreZiraat: A Seed That Grows into a Bridge If Cultivated
By Jessica Ullevålseter The time is always correct to build bridges. Bridges represent notime; that which lies between. However, we avoid representation and seek embodiment. We seek to embody the bridge and weave separation towards the On…
Read moreI Am the Forest Singing
By Khabira Candace Holt My feet tread a carpet of moss amid varied shades of green pulling my eyes from lichen to fern, to towering tree tops My body inhales healing aromas from spruce, cedar, trillium, fungi, dead wood The Forest's v…
Read moreIn Amber Light
I ask the night sky What is the sound of moonlight The breeze lightly whispers star songs in dark branches Thick silence holds me A seed trapped in amber A tree's tears and its gift Suspended in time Rolled and tumbled In Earth's …
Read moreSeven Fires at Avalanche Ridge
By Khabira Candace Holt In August I moved from my home of 26 years above the Kootenay River, and between the time of deep snow until early July I had seven outdoor fires burning artwork, books, wooden things, etc., as part of my honoring …
Read moreThe Nature Sutras
By Christine Stevens The Nature Sutras are a collection of poems inspired by nature. Please click here to view the poems. Please click here to view the video about the Nature Sutras.
Read moreVideo: Interview with Pir Shabda on Bird Photography as a Ziraat Practice
To view the video Interview with Pir Shabda on Bird Photography as a Ziraat Practice , please click here .
Read moreBagia Narway Gabun Buridja
‘learn today from yesterday for a better tomorrow’ (in Dhurga language of the South Coast of NSW) By Arjuna Ben-Zion Weiss ‘In the wake of the disastrous bushfires of 2020, COVID 19 and Black Lives Matter, join Uncle Noel Butler, Budawa…
Read moreA World in Crisis
By Wali van der Zwan It may be that darkness has descended over you in order that He may make you aware of the value of His blessings upon you. Hikmah 198 2 In a lecture for a Dutch audience, Hazrat Inayat Khan compared the human nature…
Read moreExtending the Glide: A Faith-based Response to Climate Collapse
By Salim Matt Gras As a Sufi, I consider it my spiritual obligation to bear witness: to illuminate important truths we tend to overlook or shy away from. What you’re about to read is an op-ed I wrote for Faith and Climate Action Montana, …
Read moreEncounters on the Ice Age Trail
By Beverly Subanna Nur Gordon My relationship with the natural world is an ongoing sense of discovery and belonging. Part of my practice is to go out and consciously experience new and familiar environments, and with senses open, fully ta…
Read moreRemembering Human Ecology
By Kamal- Carlos Alberto Hernández Vélez Disconnected Humans As a species, we suffer from “Ecological Alienation”, mistakenly believing that the planet, its microscopic life, oceans, plants, animals, climate, and the cosmos work on a le…
Read morePeace Garden Ruhau
A Place to Meet, Dance and Meditate Anahita Mettert and the German Dance family worked together to build a garden dedicated to peace and Universal Unity. Located in Ruhau, the farm of the Sieglin family, it is a place for prayer, meditati…
Read moreDesert Caravan in the Heart
By Arjuna My journey began in Alice. It was the fourth time I’d been there and each time it’s been different. We stayed in the heart of town at the Diplomat Motel, which was just near the Todd Mall where all the action seems to be. The to…
Read moreThe Message of the Kogi to the Younger Brothers
By Shafiya Majid Sharon Mijares The message of the Kogi (translates as jaguar people ) was directly presented in the early 90s when the Kogi (pronunciation: Kohi) mamas came out of their hidden village to warn that we, the younger brothe…
Read moreThe Qur'an and Deep Ecology
by Karuna Teresa Foudriat Since the 1980s Muslim environmentalists have thoughtfully re-examined the Islamic tradition, uncovering the foundation for a sustainable view of the Creator, the cosmos and the human role in nature. I…
Read morePoems by Khabira
MEDICINE WATERS Now I have laid bare, Taken your medicine In the white foam Of your thundering river Now I have become You Now I have been blessed Now replenished I go Into the unknown On my way home On my way home. WIND MUSIC If my …
Read moreEcospirituality: Manifesting a Greener World
Karuna Teresa Foudriat’s speaks to the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills Kingston, NY, September 21, 2014 Since I’m speaking to a UU congregation, I know I’m preaching to the choir when I point out that we live in uncer…
Read morePoems by K. Sky Roshay
The Dance When flickers of sunlight dance between aspen leaves to land on my face, my heart explodes like a dandelion puff, scattering love and joy to sail to a million distant places, and return to me in fl…
Read morePoem by Hayra Fatah Huggins Gunn
The Drive It was a long, quiet ride home with you Full of unspoken ease and acceptance, and you were aglow, as usual. Even when I couldn’t catch a glance your way, I could feel it And remember the completeness of our round chee…
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