Mutual Flourishing for Self and Earth

08/09/2020

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05/31/2019

This is mutual flourishing in action.

A Turkish pop music festival which was planned to take place on June 5-7 in Turkey’s southern province of Mersin has been delayed due to concerns about the spawning period of the endangered caretta carettas, after outcries from environmentalists and a lawmaker.

04/11/2019

Rights for trees? Yes! Read the article to see the beautiful discussion in France.

The National Assembly said trees should have the ‘right to develop … reproduce.’

06/25/2018

I met an interesting friend in the garden today. I’ve never seen such a tiny praying mantis—maybe half an inch long.

05/08/2017

Beautiful writing about coming home to the land that knows you best.

It would be easy to say that I should never have left. It would be easy to tell myself that I should have known better, twenty years ago, than to leave. When a land claims you from the first moment…

03/19/2017

"In becoming Homo luminous, we'll discard the masculine theology that values command, control, and dominion over nature to embrace an older, feminine theology of cooperation and sustainability."

─Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.

03/12/2017

Friends, I encourage you to watch this 8-minute wisdom teaching from Martha Beck. It is encouraging, inspiring, a bit funny, and in my view, right on in its idea about how we shift the world in a healing direction. Watch and share!

The problem with revolutionary change is that it tends to recreate the system it overthrows. The world is ready for a different kind of change, and it's comi...

03/11/2017

How is this for Mutual Flourishing? I am so inspired by stories such as this of how we can learn to partner with animals and their talents instead of fearing or harming them.

Can a rat be a hero? It can if it saves lives. Meet the giant rats that sniff out landmines and TB

02/12/2017

Are you interested in joining a global moment of healing activation? It's happening this Tuesday, February 14.

On Feb. 14 at 12 noon, EST (U.S. Eastern Standard Time / New York Time) , please go to Temple of Sacred Sound to tone the heart sound "Ah" as a Sonic Valentine for Mother Earth for 5 minutes or more, joining thousands of others throughout the planet on this award winning interactive website.

If you are not near a computer or can not participate in the 12 noon, EST event, please feel free to tone at Noon in your own local time zone. Also know that on Feb. 14th you may also participate, anytime, anywhere (wherever you are, whatever time it is). Simply take at least 5 minutes out of your day and project the heart sound "Ah" filled with Light & Love to Mother Earth, as a Sonic Valentine for Global Harmonization.

If possible, please gather with others in a group to collectively tone together for this event.

The purpose of World Sound Healing Day is:

To positively affect the Earth through the use of sound in order to:
Heal Our Planet!
Heal Our Waters!
Raise Our Consciousness!

Please pass this information on to others.

We trust this is helpful. We're really looking forward to resonating together with you this Feb. 14 for World Sound Healing Day!

With Our Light, Our Love and Our Sound,
We Can Change the World!

Jonathan Goldman & Andi Goldman
Sound Healers Association

01/09/2017

I am reading Michael Northcott's Place, Ecology, and the Sacred in preparation for a new course I'll be teaching. Sitting before the fire because our furnace broke last night, I hear a terrible noise outside the window and stand to look out. A majestic conifer across the street, about 4 or 5 storeys tall and in gorgeous health, has been quickly cut down and is being fed to the shredding machine. What irony. As I read about how western culture has come to see no land or plant or animal as sacred, this tree meets its end. Why, I do not know. It stands on my neighbor's property but I doubt she would choose to pay to have it removed. I have seen gas line tags placed along the street in the past few days so I suspect the tree may be being sacrificed for gas line repair--which creates a double irony as I sit huddled before the fire on a day when my gas furnace is not functioning, yearning for it to function again to warm my frigid home. Tree, I am sorry. I am sorry I currently use gas to heat my home and cook my food; I am sorry my neighbors do the same and that this desire for fuel appears to be the cause of your demise. I will miss you, and even more, perhaps, I will miss the call of the owls that often have perched amid your branches. Tree, I am sorry.

01/03/2017

A thoughtful article by my former student, Alissa Welker.

About 30 minutes into the conversation with Farmer Bob* I hesitantly admitted that I was an environmental science major. I only let this…