Nature :: Spirit
Exploring kinship in a living, animate world
Showing 12 essays tagged nature spirituality
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62. Connecting with Nature's Ways
On a path of nature spirituality, even politics goes through nature
Mar 26, 2026
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44. You're the Fish
On Rumi and writing and those transformations we might not at first welcome
Oct 4, 2023
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33. Being Autistic
On getting diagnosed in my 60s, reviewing life in light of new self-knowledge, and cutting through old stereotypes
May 15, 2022
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30. Cultivating Nature Spirituality
Two simple—but not easy!—practices for beginning a spirituality of nature: opening the heart and widening the perception
Jan 28, 2022
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11. Turning Our Faces Into the Water
A whole other world carrying on just below the surface of the sea—and a rich metaphor for the split between matter and spirit in Western thought
Aug 14, 2020
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8. Meeting a Spirit Helper
How shocked I was in the predawn darkness of a winter morning to feel heard and seen, and what the process of going on a spirit journey (a shamanic-style journey) is like
Jul 24, 2020
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When Your Still Small Voice Has a Name
Learning to listen when Spirit shows up chuckling in a bearskin
Aug 2, 2017
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Letter to America, Martin Luther King Day 2017
On truth, lies, and the stories we choose to believe
Jan 16, 2017
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We have to put the health of the Earth absolutely first. It will mean listening with humility to what the animals and plants and trees and insects need to thrive. It will mean putting their needs first, for they were here first; they prepared the Earth to be friendly to human evolution. Our lives depend on their lives, our health on their health. It will mean loving the Earth, the body of us all. Transforming the law to value ownership less, and health and life more.