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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”
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”
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””
(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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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