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Our Earth Mother

Rob — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:09:19 +0000

I think the Earth Mother is so incredibly fine. When I consider that every minute part of my physical being came from her… is maintained by her sustenance… that is an awe-full feeling indeed to me.

With what can she sustain us when we taint her being?

A Hole To Sit In

Rob — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:45:36 +0000

Digging a Hole Big Enough to Sit In

by Twylah Nitsch (New York, 1920 — 2007)

I must have been under five when I spent one whole summer day digging a hole with a large spoon in the side of a bank near our house.

I had to dig and dig because the ground was so full of roots and my goal was to make a hole big enough to sit in – like a cave.

And that took a lot of hard work.

Digging through all those roots was tough.

What I remember most about the experience is something my grandmother said.

“When you take the dirt out, make sure you have a place for it,” she cautioned me, “because the dirt is used to being in that particular place, and it is at home there.

Don’t take anything that is part of something and just scatter it around.

Remember you are disturbing the home of the worms and the insects.

You are moving them out of the place where they have been living, and you need to make sure that they are happy about where you are taking them.”

So I would scoop the dirt into a little basket I had and take it around to various spots.

“Is this where you would like to be?” I’d ask.

And if the answer was yes, I would leave it.

Otherwise, I’d pick up my basket, go to another spot, and ask again.

When I had finally made the hole deep enough to sit in, I would crawl in there and listen.

I could hear the earth talking.

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About the author

A Seneca elder now crossed over at 87, a member of the Wolf Clan, Twylah Nitsch did not begin sharing the sacred teachings and traditions of her people until she was in her seventies. Today she lectures widely, using her Seneca name, Yehwehnode, “she whose voice rides the wind.” She is often told by her audience how perfectly she exemplifies the sacred wisdom that develops in elderhood for those who seek it. Inner guidance comes to her through a precise experience in the solar plexus, an actual sense of movement occurring there. The excerpt is from The Feminine Face of God, by Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins.

— Mary Ford-Grabowsky

Golden Ratios

Rob — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:02:20 +0000

It has been a very mild winter here in the valley. Already a few trees are budding, and the willows have a distinct green cast. Arrow and I saw our first blooming crocuses yesterday, and the grass is already getting shaggy. The few freezing nites in December were not enuf to finish it off. Blueberries are budding also, and new leafs are beginning from the raspberries. Cloudy days and rainfall have been occasional, with the latter still below average.

The Golden Ration, science will find, underlies all of nature [except where man has altered it]. The ancients knew of this relationship, and built accordingly. Even in the Middle Ages, Michaelangelo followed these proportions… his painting and drawings are a most pleasing design to the human eye. The Egyptions earlier had worked not only with the two dimensional drawings, but pushed it into the third dimension with their pyramids.

Now the results of this should be the stuff of modern legends… not relegated books and wikipedia. What power is there in a specified length, such as a royal cubit?

If that cubit is designed into a golden ration pyramid, and that pyramid sharpens [or at least preserves the sharpness of a metal edge], if that pyramid also enhances food and water, if sitting in that pyramid enhances meditation and mental acuity, what are we waiting for?

We have become accustomed to living in boxes of no significant dimensions. Sounds and energies bounce willy nilly off walls and corners. What if we build a house based on the golden mean proportions? Could we not then enjoy the enhanced energy of that shape? A spherical house, or any of the “sacred” shapes would be a definite improvement as far as internal energy goes, and each holds its own particular energy.

Modern science has not yet really begun to tap this ancient awareness. But they are waking up to clues. Recent information from the Helmholtz Association of Germany indicates that the Golden Mean even applies to the atomic level. Linked magnetic atoms of cobalt niobate resonated at the Golden Mean ratio of 1.618. Detailed info here. More here on Divine Proportions.

Perhaps it is no wonder that modern man sees chaos in the universe, when he’s not aware of intrinsic order….