VA8, Ep. 13 Experience, Introspection and Strength; the culmination of our journey around the Medicine Wheel

In the last episode of this year, I went to a fountain of wisdom I cherish, a small green book titled Thinking like a Mountain to present the experience of an affective education, offered by the collective exercise of the transformative ritual The Council of all Beings. We also explore the concepts of Deep Ecology, Ritual and Evolutionary Remembering. As we reach Introspection, we follow the lead of Joanna Macy and John Seed's Gaia Meditations as they respond to two crucial questions: What are you? What am I? Then, as we reach Strength, the last totem of the Hoop of Life, I share a first person testimony of the fortitude I believe is necessary to summon right now, as Graham Innes wrote in his narrative of Earth Bonding when he acted in defense of Daintree Forest, in Australia, burying himself with fellow activists up to his neck in the soil. Words and Art of two masters; Jacek Yerka and Harlan Ellison, allow me to conclude this powerful journey, and I close the Medicine Wheel by offering you the gift of a concrete exercise in Transformation.