What IS Bioregional Animism? Do you know what your bioregion is? Do you know what animism is?

I'm serious...Do you know what your bioregion is?

= If you live in the U.S., start here. (Here's another system I've seen.)

=If you live elsewhere in the world, start here.Bioregional animism, the philosophy and/or belief system that the world is alive ( Read more... )

OK, I told you last time I was going to give you the results of my taking the Kamana “Tourist Test,” so here it is ( Read more... )

I have been reading "Life-Place: Bioregional Thought and Practice" by Robert L. Thayer (University of California Press, 2003).

"A bioregion [italics in original] is literally and etymologically a "life-place" - a unique region definable by natural (rather than political) boundaries with a geographic, climatic, hydrological, and ecological ( Read more... )

For me, the origins of all these ways was living on and off the land, what you ( Read more... )

I remind myself every so often about what I am doing and how ( Read more... )

When I was first learning about these things, on my own, I tried to pay attention to the Wheel of the Year. For me, Imbolc never connected at all. I am not around sheep, and here in Montana, February is as nasty as January, and often worse than December. Nothing at all is waking up ( Read more... )

Reality TV pretty much sucks in my opinion. It brings out the worst in people because it rewards the worst: selfishness, self-promotion, deception, manipulation, viciousness, gossip, greed, etc. But it didn't start out that way ( Read more... )

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The 1984 hit by Talk Talk, "It's My Life."
In honor of life on earth... and the freedom and sovereignty of the individual soul.

I have always enjoyed walking and sitting in certain spots. That's one thing I know is true from Castaneda: not only are there "power spots," there are certain "power spots" that are specific to YOU and not others. Look out of the corner of your eye for "difference" (colors, etc.).


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I don't garden currently because I don't have a yard. The photo here is of me in my tiny little patch in my folks' backyard in 2007. I didn't grow a garden in 2008. I'm still learning.


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