Category: ecology

CHALLENGING CULTURAL NORMS

I know that many people realize that our cultural norms are a major factor in causing the extinction of all life. But still conform to these social norms: Not because they are worried about what others think:  but because these attitudes are “hard wired”.… Continue Reading “CHALLENGING CULTURAL NORMS”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires – humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the… Continue Reading “Trees”

“Let them eat cake”

Wiser and well known people have  advocated for other life forms and the ecology long before me. Peter Singer Albert Schweitzer John Newton  (wrote Amazing Grace) Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, (founders of GreenPeace) Casey Affleck Alec Baldwin James Cromwell David Attenborough And many… Continue Reading ““Let them eat cake””

The Media is the Massage

(With apologies to Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium is The Massage”) [Marshall McLuhan argues that technologies — from clothing to the wheel to the book, and beyond — are the messages themselves, not the content of the medium. In essence, The Medium is the Massage is a graphical… Continue Reading “The Media is the Massage”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires – humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the… Continue Reading “Trees”

Trees

THERE IS A TREE MEDITATION IN THIS POST I am frequently told trees are a fire hazard Trees don’t light: fires – humans do! Human arsonists have set fire to the side of my property at Goolwa after torching the local bushland. So the… Continue Reading “Trees”

CHALLENGING CULTURAL NORMS

I know that many people realize that our cultural norms are a major factor in causing the extinction of all life. But still conform to these social norms: Not because they are worried about what others think:  but because these attitudes are “hard wired”.… Continue Reading “CHALLENGING CULTURAL NORMS”

The Gods Themselves

I read Isaac Asimovs“The Gods themselves” In 1973 The social satire is how scientist are expected to find a solution to a problem that could easlly be solved by stopping the cause In the 1970s I was in the original Greenpeace We were concerned… Continue Reading “The Gods Themselves”

AHIMSA

I tried my best to practice ahimsa before I was aware of this word/concept Impossible in a culture that believes only humans have a soul and only money matters As a child I got a bashing for not wanting to eat meat: The same… Continue Reading “AHIMSA”

Malleus Maleficarum

MISCONCEPTIONS I realize some people still equate witches with evil people who sacrifice animals. Not us! My tradition is Alexandrian/Gardenarian and we work sky clad (naked) I became interested in the 1970’s – my first degree initiation was 1983 This is the first page… Continue Reading “Malleus Maleficarum”