Earth Spirit Dreaming: Shamanic Ecotherapy Practices - Elizabeth E. Meacham 2020
Reference Notes
1. Annie Leonard, “Moving from Individual to Societal Change,” State of the World: Is Sustainability Still Possible? (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2013).
2. Aldo Leopold, “The Land Ethic,” A Sand County Almanac (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1949/1987).
3. See Owen Barfield, Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1988), for a detailed discussion of the suppression of “primitive” levels of awareness in Western culture.
4. Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint; reprint edition, 2015), 211—12.
5. Berry, The Dream of the Earth, 211—12.
6. “One Planet Living,” from Global Footprint Network, reprinted in State of the World: Is Sustainability Still Possible?, Worldwatch Institute, 2013, (Moore, Rees 2013: 41).
7. Dolores LaChapelle, “Ritual is Essential,” Art and Ceremony in Sustainable Culture, Spring, 1984, Context Institute.
8. LaChapelle, “Ritual is Essential.”
9. Barfield, Saving the Appearances.
10. Michael J. Cohen, Reconnecting With Nature (Apple Valley, MN: Ecopress, an imprint of Finney Company; third edition, 2007), 33.
11. James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
12. Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice, and Beauty to the World (New York: Viking, 2007).
13. Hawken, Blessed Unrest, 84—85.
14. Thanks to my friend Robert Toth for deepening my understanding of the idea of “holonic consciousness” as an effective means of differentiating from “anthropocentric consciousness.”
15. Thomas Berry, The Great Work (Danvers, MA: Broadway Books; reprint edition, 2000), 82.
16. Berry, The Dream of the Earth.
17. Berry, The Dream of the Earth.
18. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe and Company, 1836/1949).
19. This table is derived in part by reference to David Skrbina’s dissertation, “Participation, Organization, and Mind: Toward a Participatory Worldview” (2001), 11—15.
20. Tony Moodie, “Re-evaluating the idea of indigenous knowledge: Implications of anti-dualism in African philosophy and theology.” Paper presented at the annual conference of the African Studies Association of Australia and the Pacific (AFSAAP), University of Western Australia, November 26—28, 2004.
21. Arne Naess, in Rothenberg, David, ed., Is It Painful to Think? Conversations with Arne Naess (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
22. Joanna Macy, World as Lover, World as Self (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1991).
23. Macy, World as Lover, World as Self, 187.
24. Joanna Macy, with Molly Young Brown, Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, Limited, 2014).
25. Macy, Coming Back to Life, 46.
26. Macy, Coming Back to Life, 47.
27. Macy, Coming Back to Life, 47.
28. From Paul Hawken’s website, blessedunrest.com.
29. Susan Griffin, Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2016).
30. Griffin, Woman and Nature.
31. Ralph Metzner, Green Psychology: Transforming Our Relationship to the Earth (Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, 1999), 86—87.
32. Metzner, Green Psychology, 85.
33. Paul Shepard, Nature and Madness (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2011).
34. Metzner, Green Psychology, 86—87.
35. Alexander von Humboldt is considered the father of the field of ecology, in that he was the first known Western thinker to study relationships between organisms and their environment. Humboldt’s discipline was named oecologie, or ecology, by Ernst Haeckel in 1866, in his General Morphology of Organisms (Morphologie der Organismen). Learn more in Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, Random House, 2016.
36. Theodore Roszak, The Voice of the Earth: An Exploration of Ecopsychology (Grand Rapids, MI: Phanes, 2001).
37. Betty Roszak, “Rescue and Restore,” from Roszak, The Voice of the Earth, dedication.
38. Roszak, “Rescue and Restore.”
39. Leopold, “The Land Ethic.”
40. This idea is informed by and expands the concept of the ecological self, originated by Arne Naess in his book The Ecology of Wisdom (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint Press, 2010).
41. Leopold, “The Land Ethic.”
42. Karen Warren, “The power and the promise of ecofeminism, revisited,” in Michael Zimmerman, ed., Environmental Philosophy: From Animal Rights to Radical Ecology(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005).
43. Henryk Skolimowski, The Participatory Mind: A New Theory of Knowledge and of the Universe (New York: Penguin Books; first edition, 1995).
44. These passages are adapted from my dissertation, “From Emerson to Macy: The Evolution of a Participatory Worldview,” 2011, San Francisco, CA: California Institute of Integral Studies.
45. Cohen, Reconnecting With Nature, 33.
46. Cohen, Reconnecting With Nature, 33.
47. For another exercise to deepen this experience of connectedness, see my article entitled “The Self System Drawing: Teaching a Sustainable Worldview through Creativity,” in The Journal of Sustainability Education, 2014.
48. Qing Li, a professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo, along with his research partners, conducted studies that measured cellular activity of the immune system before and after a visit to a forest. See his article, “Effect of phytoncide from trees on human natural killer cell function,” Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol. 2009 Oct—Dec; 22 (4): 951—9.
49. Nachman of Bratzlav, translation by Shamai Kanter, Kol Haneshamah, Shabbat Vehagim (Wyncote, PA: The Reconstructionist Press, 1994).
50. Clinton Ober, et al. Earthing: The Most Important Health Discovery Ever! (Laguna Beach, CA: Basic Health Publications, Incorporated, 2014).
51. Thich Nhat Hanh, “I Want to Be Grounded” (Shambhala Sun, July 2012).
52. Nhat Hanh, “I Want to Be Grounded.”
53. Adapted from Rhea Loader, Dreamstones: Magic from the Living Earth (London: Prism Press, 1991).
54. William Cahalan, “Ecological Groundedness in Gestalt Therapy,” from Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, ed. Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner (San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1995), 216—23.
55. Cahalan, “Ecological Groundedness in Gestalt Therapy,” 216—23.
56. Cohen, Reconnecting with Nature, 23.
57. Rudolf Steiner, How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation (Great Barrington, MA: Anthroposophic Press, 2014).
58. These questions are derived in part from David Wood, “What is Ecophenomenology?,” Research in Phenomenology, 31 (1):78—95 (2001).
59. Berry, Dream of the Earth, 211.
60. Macy, Coming Back to Life.
61. Michael G. Reccia, The Joseph Communications: Revelation. Who You Are; Why You’re Here (N.p.: eBookit.com, 2012).
62. Thanks to Carole Wallencheck for pointing out that the origin of weird is wyrd, meaning destiny.
63. Berry, The Great Work.
64. Reccia, The Joseph Communications: Revelation.
65. Michael Laitman, A Glimpse of Light: The Basics of the Wisdom of Kabbalah (Brooklyn, NY: Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, 2013).
66. Laitman, A Glimpse of Light, 123.
67. Llyn Roberts and Robert Levy, Shamanic Reiki: Expanded Ways of Working with Universal Life Force Energy (Alresford, UK: Moon Books, 2007).
68. Reccia, The Joseph Communications: Revelation.
69. Ervin Laszlo, The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time (New York: Hampton Press, 1996).
70. Laszlo, The Systems View of the World, 82.
71. Macy, Coming Back to Life, 42.
72. Jerrold J. Abrams, “Peirce, Kant, and Apel on transcendental semiotics: The unity of apperception and the deduction of the categories of signs,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, 2004, 40 (4): 627—77.
73. Cynthia Overweg, “Hildegard of Bingen: The Nun Who Loved the Earth” (Quest 105:3 Summer 2017), 21—25.
74. David Bohm, in Ken Wilber, ed., The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes (Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications, 1982).
75. Bohm, in Wilber, The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes, 62.
76. Bohm, in Wilber, The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes, 40—41.
77. Amit Goswami, The Visionary Window: A Quantum Physicist’s Guide to Enlightenment (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2012).
78. Goswami, The Visionary Window, 110.
79. Goswami, The Visionary Window, 137.
80. Willard van Orman Quine, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (New York: Columbia University Press, 1969).
81. Carl G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus (New York: W. W. Norton & Company; first edition, 19 October, 2009).
82. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus.
83. Jung, “Mysterium. Encounter,” HI v(v), The Red Book: Liber Novus.
84. Sandra Ingerman, “Medicine for the Earth.” In Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, ed., Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth (Point Reyes Station, CA: Golden Sufi Center, 2016).
85. Ingerman, “Medicine for the Earth,” 232.
86. Christina Pratt, An Encyclopedia of Shamanism (Buffalo, NY: Rosen Publishing Group; first edition, 1 June, 2007).
87. Pratt, An Encyclopedia of Shamanism, xliii.
88. There are many places to find information on the vast movement of Earth spirituality and action that is arising in Western religions. Two great places to start are the book This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, edited by Roger Gottlieb (New York: Routledge, 2004) and the film Renewal (http://www.renewalproject.net/film). There are religious groups in almost every region, and many countries, that are reorienting their understanding, stewardship, and liturgy toward honoring and caring for the Earth. Look in your own area to find these activists to learn more.
89. Bill Pfeiffer, Wild Earth, Wild Soul: A Manual for an Ecstatic Culture (Alresford, UK: Moon Books, 2013), 18.
90. Gottlieb, This Sacred Earth.
91. Adapted from Dreamstones: Magic from the Living Earth (London: Prism Press: 1990), 56.
92. Ronald Reminick, et al. Healing Across Cultures & The Good Life: An Approach to Holistic Health (Farmington Hills, MI: Cengage Learning, 2010), 51.
93. The idea of resting in our “true self” in shamanic reality is given to me by my friend and shamanic mentor, Damaris Chrystal.
94. Gregory Bateson, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000).