Priscilla Stuckey

Reconnecting people with nature through writing and spirituality

Nature :: Spirit

the blog of Priscilla Stuckey

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way of the heart

39. The knowing inside

Transcript There’s a story told by Abraham Maslow, the psychologist. Back in the 1930s, at the very start of his career, he did fieldwork among the Blackfoot people of southern Alberta. He wanted to test the idea of emotional security or insecurity across cultures. So he camped out for a summer on Blackfoot land and…  Read More…

11. Turning our faces into the water

Transcript We stand in waist-high waves and slip on our fins. The world around us is blue—a surface of rippling sapphire stretched out to the horizon. A lighter blue of sky above us, a few clouds drifting. We jiggle our masks one last time to make sure they’re in place and bite down on our…  Read More…

7. The freedom of the wind

Transcript So, last week I talked about opening the heart so we can hear a larger wisdom instead of just following the mind’s ideas about how things should be. But why is being open so important? The simplest answer is, Because that’s the way nature is. But what in the world does this mean? I…  Read More…

6. Finding the way of the heart

Transcript Many years ago, when I lived in California, I went camping one weekend in Pinnacles National Park. The park was only a national monument then, and hardly anyone was there. Pinnacles has some spectacular hikes, and one of them leads to the very tops of those tall rocky spires. I remember climbing up and…  Read More…