The Sanctuary, Shamanic Healing Center
Episodes
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Honoring our Pain for the World & Deep Ecology with John Seed
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Friday Oct 20, 2023
Join a beautiful conversation with John Seed.
John has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earthing workshops around the world for 35 years. Find more about John at https://www.rainforestinformationcentre.org/john_seed
Some of the topics we explore:
Honoring Our Pain for the WorldThe philosophy of deep ecologyExperiential deep ecology workshopsThe Work that Reconnects $ ceremonies that dispel the illusion of separation between humans and the more-than-human-world.The success of direct actions in protecting Australian rainforestsRainforest conservation
About John Seed
John Seed is founder of the Rainforest Information Centre. Since 1979 he has been involved in the direct actions that have resulted in the protection of the Australian rainforests.
He has written and lectured extensively on deep ecology and has been conducting Councils of All Beings and other re-Earthing workshops around the world for 35 years. With Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Professor Arne Naess, he wrote "Thinking Like a Mountain - Towards a Council of All Beings" (New Society Publishers) which has now been translated into 10 languages.
In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) by the Australian Government for services to conservation and the environment. He is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation and occasional Scholar-in-Residence at the Esalen Institute.
In 2003 he spearheaded the Rainforest Information Centre's endangered species campaign http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/spp/ and made the film "On The Brink" with David Attenborough, David Suzuki, Olivia Newton-John, and Jack Thompson.
In 2023 he is spearheading a campaign to prevent the extinction of koalas.
He continues to conduct experiential deep ecology workshops around Australia as well as online workshops.
Saturday Apr 10, 2021
Francis Weller - An apprenticeship with Sorrow - Live Interview
Saturday Apr 10, 2021
Saturday Apr 10, 2021
Grief and loss touch us all, arriving at our door in many ways. It comes swirling on the winds of divorce, or the death of someone dear, as an illness that alters the course of a life. For many of us, our grief is tied intimately to the ravages we witness daily to watersheds, forests and the disappearance of species, the silencing of languages, and the coarsening of culture. And yet our encounters with sorrow are often met with confusion, fear, and overwhelm. We are uncertain how to meet this difficult guest when it surfaces in our lives.
This brief presentation will explore the elements of an Apprenticeship with Sorrow. It is through the rites of grief that we are, in turn, ripened as human beings. Grief invites gravity and depth into our world. Our work is to understand grief not only as an emotion but also a core faculty of being human, a profound capacity to metabolize sorrow into something nutrient-dense for the community. This apprenticeship is, at heart, about the crafting of elders capable of meeting the pain and suffering of the world with a dignified and robust bearing. This is soul activism intended to foster deep cultural change.