A climate emergency has been announced in the UK and politicians talk of the “great steps being taken to address this emergency”. If we accept that we are in a emergency what action can we each take to respond to this call and what role does something like shamanism offer to this? A memory comes to me as a young child while\u00a0at my first school\u00a0witnessing\u00a0new born\u00a0mice being drowned in a glass jar. I became so upset distraught and hysterical, it was really my first direct\u00a0witnessing of the cruelty of humans, the rational for their death was we have to many. It would be easy to see my response\u00a0as a over reaction from a overly sensitive child which of course is how the school saw it and I became a problem child with issues. However\u00a0if we go deeper I was aware\u00a0of a knowing that all life is sacred and as such is to be respected. My reaction came from this truth in me\u00a0being crushed. It seems\u00a0clear that humans still see nature as something to be managed as our own natures are sought to be managed by the hypnosis of media and societies conditioning. If we are going to address this climate emergency as a whole, how\u00a0can we\u00a0learn to live with nature as a part of nature? How can we\u00a0become open to think\u00a0for or like the earth and open up to expressing our\u00a0own unique\u00a0nature?\u00a0Every action we take has a impact the ripples will flow out across the collective. The deeper I go into our inter connectedness through my own\u00a0spiritual practices\u00a0the more I feel this to be a reality given to us by time honoured wisdom – so what we do does make a difference! It is a relatively new occurrence\u00a0for humans to not turn to the spirits for guidance, working\u00a0\u00a0with shamanic ways brings new possibilities and invites an emergence of our own nature\u00a0as well as\u00a0a\u00a0return to this respect of all life and\u00a0honouring of\u00a0the sacred. If as a society we each\u00a0lived this what kind of world\u00a0would we live in? One where our unique nature is encouraged as a expression of\u00a0the sacred.\u00a0These things may well\u00a0not be resolved in our\u00a0life time however I believe\u00a0we have the wisdom available to achieve this, so what is needed is a willingness to try. I do\u00a0see I am making progress in this and\u00a0working with shamanism\u00a0opens\u00a0me to\u00a0a more natural way of life one that holds respect and honours the sacred connections of us\u00a0all.\u00a0It will push on areas that\u00a0hold us back from expressing who we are and strengthen the areas where we do. To live this in daily life in our current society I find\u00a0is a challenge but wherever I go in my daily reactions this is the place I drop back into when I give the space to it in my daily\u00a0practices my own encounter\u00a0with\u00a0shamanism supports and\u00a0helps me reclaim this. In preparing for\u00a0my upcoming tree course\u00a0I have read a number of articles where science is understanding trees are alive in ways they did not know\u00a0before.\u00a0This\u00a0is a move back to a animistic world view and if we are to address our climate emergency then animism\u00a0surely has a part to play where we see the earth as a living organism that we are a part of\u00a0and not as a resource for humans\u00a0to take from. Along with my ongoing sacred activism events I am currently developing some workshops giving\u00a0opportunities to deepen into this.\u00a0I was told once there is very little each of us can do so we had better do something.\u00a0 With the discoveries I am making with shamanism and my connection with\u00a0our\u00a0earth what else am I to do! There are amazing things happening in the world currently as we are pushed to\u00a0move in a new direction and we each have a part to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A climate emergency has been announced in the UK and politicians talk of the “great steps being taken to address this emergency”. If we accept that we are in a emergency what action can we each take to respond to this call and what role does something like shamanism offer to this? A memory comes … <\/p>\n