Initiation to a Living Planet: Bush Bathing

The setting for Rob's service is the bushland of Shady Grove Church, a time capsule from a pre-technological age. On this warm, early November Sunday, the bush is alive with all the wild flowers of late Spring. Gently holding the elements of our human culture - the old Church and Hostel - is our bushland ecosystem - a wild, living "organism" with a history of its own. Rob uses it as a setting for spiritual growth - through the practice of "Bush bathing" - drawing on all our senses and experienced alone and in silence. Afterwards, Rob explains the symbolism and divinity of the "Tree of Life" and we light candles to share our "bush-bathing" joys and concerns.