Innocence, Consciousness and Conscience
I think it’s so interesting that with each age we view the previous time period as being more innocent. We surround that time with the golden hue of nostalgia, thinking about simpler times and days gone by. Innocence lost. That is the ‘Western’ culture’s story, we see it again and again and never seem to…
The Shadow of Silviculture, part 2
Silviculture (growing ‘tree gardens’). When we live in the bush or on a farm, cutting trees is a reality we must face or we will be overgrown. I hate cutting trees, and have a hard time with it, as I do with killing animals for food. But I consider both a necessity in the North,…
Teacher Trees – Part 1
This time of year, when all my garden friends and wild herbs have called it for the season, I spend a lot of time with my trees. Actually, now that I think about it, the fall is the time of trees for everyone in these parts because of the blazing colours. Even after they lose…
The Meaning and Gift of Worrying
While this post is not about Covid in particular, it is about an equally contagious and devastating related illness. This illness is called ‘worrying’. Worrying is not an acronym for something else, it’s a verb; to worry. The word ‘worry’ is so common and old we’ve forgotten about her. We turned our back on her…
Colonization, Gods, Goddesses and Three Alchemic Realms
The elemental descriptions of our cosmos that we lived with for tens of thousands of years still hold true in profound ways. In turning away from them as we have, first towards religion and then to our sciences (whose twisted limbs grew from that ancient body), we have lost the key to balance ourselves and…
Echinacea, Snake Root and Snake Oil
By Steven Martyn I’ve come to have a good nose for sniffing out ‘the hidden goods’ of our past amongst the post-modern carnage that surrounds us. This gold was brushed aside, or covered up deliberately by twisting its appearance or meaning, hundreds or even thousands of years ago. It sits hidden in plain view collecting…
35 years of seeding earth wisdom
