Cadets and survival training and my very first awakening In my early teens, I joined the Navy Cadets, as my father kind of ‘encouraged’ me to ‘enlist’, because he believed I needed more discipline in my life. I was very much a dreamer… I was also quite smart, just not that organized. He thought Cadets …
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So here is part 2 of my book project, I overlapped a little from part 1... Parents’ separation and divorce, circa early 80s, troubled waters My first major life crisis was in the early 80s when my parents finally separated. I remember this being one of the hardest periods of my life even up to …
Continue reading Deep ecology and my initial awakening (pt 2)
Growing up in a small town called Knowlton in the 1970s was an interesting experience, to say the least. With a population of about 1000 inhabitants at the time, I was an only child, quite the loner and was always very in tune with nature and the forest, spending much of my free time wandering the forests around my house. I would climb to the top of a 50-foot pine so I could have an unencumbered view of our beautiful Brome Lake less than half a mile away. The swaying of the treetops from the mild summer breezes would give me some exhilaration but so would the breathtaking view and the thrill and danger of being so high up.
As a fledgling life/spiritual coach/consultant/mentor/teacher (put your favorite adjective here), I follow many spiritual prophets/gurus/scholars, philosophers, traditions, scientists (yep), sages and shamans, Terrence McKenna is one of my favorites, especially when we look at our modern world and what is happening to us at the moment. He was very on point describing modern Western Culture: …
What does Nature mean to you? That is the question we must ask today, is it just a commodity that we can price, frack, clear-cut, farm, mine, and exploit. Or is it something more profound, something deeper, something that you feel deep in your heart, in your soul.
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