Category: Resource
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A song about our Origins and cosmic story written by Theo Simons of the band Seize the Day (http://www.seizetheday.org/music.cfm?…), and sung here by deep ecologist, author and activist John Seed (johnseed1@ozemail.com.au and http://johnseed.net/). John is singing it in MoonCourt in the Blue Mountains of Australia (https://pagaian.org/articles/mooncourt/), which has a brass spiral inlaid in the floor…
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by John Seed In the fourth World Rainforest Report, Queensland zoologist Peter Dwyer noted that the New Guinea highlanders find the rainforest wildlife not only good to eat, but also “good to think”. He goes on to say that “Whilst we don’t eat our rainforests, we do become enmeshed in our perceptions and thinking about…
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Produced & Directed by Jeni KendallCameraman – Paul Tait©1980 Gaia Films This 1980 documentary tells the story of the first eco-blockade in the world – the Terania Creek forest protest in Australia in 1979. A historic event, it brought rainforest preservation into public consciousness and led to the formation of the Nightcap National Park. Narrated…
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Produced bythe Rainforest Information Centre ©2014 The story of a movement by Buddhist monks in Cambodia & South-East Asia to save forests by blessing them thus making them sacred & protected.
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by John Seed I pray To dissolve myself in the Earth To feel humanness dissolve back into the Earth Whence it came With each outbreath to ask the Earth To purify To mingle To dilute This over-concentrated humanness And with each inbreath To breathe in the ancient flow The unconditioned pure certainty that comes From…
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If we enter the rainforest and allow our energies to merge with the energies we find there, I found, a most profound change in consciousness takes place. We realize that our psyche is itself a part of the rainforests. I am protecting the rain forest becomes I am part of the rainforest protecting myself. I…
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We ask for the presence of the spirit of Gaia and pray that the breath of life continues to caress this planet home. May we grow into true understanding — a deep understanding that inspires us to protect the tree on which we bloom, and the water, soil and atmosphere without which we have no…
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In this video, filmed in the spring of 2005, John Seed performs some songs and poems. He also offers detailed introductions to some of the group processes he has developed and taken around the world.
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mOWw8Lb6eM Arunachala is a sacred mountain near Tiruvanamalai in southern India. Seen as a manifestation of the god Shiva, it is a site of great annual pilgrimage. Over the last 20 years, it has also been the site of much tree-planting. This 12 minute documentary tells the story of the formation of the Annamalai Reforestation…
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