Gifts From Ground
We are given GIFTS in every moment of our lives. Our very existence is a gift to us. It’s as though Nature herself functions in an economy of gifting, this offering of sustenance which keeps us going, makes our lungs to breath and our bodies to move. This gifting requires something of us, a giving back, something that humanity has largely lost sight of in the last centuries. This keeps things going, balanced and flourishing. I call this Nature’s Economy of Exchange.
The gifts come FROM somewhere. It is not a gift “of,” which implies an object that is there for our taking. When a gift comes from something, there is a subject, an agent with his or her own aliveness and agency that is doing the gifting. This animacy and subjectivity of all beings is another thing that humans in our Western culture have lost to a great degree. Even the gifts themselves are alive and sacred and make us who we are in every moment.
I use GROUND purposefully as well, as this holds much deeper meaning than “the ground,” per se. Ground is the root of our being, the literal foundation that we walk upon and draw our sustenance from, and also where we have laid our ancestors. In and from ground comes Life out of death and decay (simply another form of life). It is from Ground, that the gifts of these meditations and revelations are given.
You can trust that everything that I share with you here is hard-earned, well-considered, and intensely labored-for. I have been listening for years, watching, and getting my hands into the soil of how nature speaks to our human evolution of consciousness. I utilize the Enneagram quite extensively in my framework and seek to guide, empower, and liberate those who have lived under a head-centered world view to reconnect to their hearts and bodies, emotions and intuitions. While I have moved further away from organized religion in the last years, there is wisdom in much of those teachings. Wisdom is wisdom. This is part of the gift exchange, me to you.
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At the heart of my writing is a distillation and clarification of what I have seen is needed for an evolution of human consciousness: from the realm of the head and ideas (which defines our current Western worldview), to the realm of the heart and emotions, and eventually to the realm of the body and intuition. In order for humanity to come into harmony with all of Nature, we have to reincorporate these areas of our being that have been oppressed, shamed, colonized, and tamed. We must enter into an Economy of Exchange, which is Nature’s way of being and sustaining life. My most direct and clearly defined reflections on these subjects are offered to paid subscribers. Some of these writings have been published, some have been written in previous years, and much of them are new content.
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