theearthmystic

I am moved by the way Mother Nature demonstrates her power. Her relentless hurricanes laughing through our lousy infrastructure, her arctic glaciers melting as if to a conductor’s cue, her sultry wildfires licking at million-dollar timeshare homes like an infected wound. What happens when colonization extracts everything from the Earth but it still isn’t enough? Cognitively we understand that we face the annihilation of not only humanity but our non-human relatives also, as reflected in the...

It feels strange to heal in a traumatized world. I bubbled up to the surface expecting to catch up on what untraumatized people had been up to, but quickly realized that most people are still traumatized. It reminds me of days I spent aimlessly driving through suburbia, lost in miles upon miles of strip malls, searching for meaning somewhere along the asphalt. Millions of acres of indigenous land paved over with the cement of false promises. I cry when watching videos about the mass...

The ancient Chinese viewed rituals, people, animals, plants, and the land as inseparable. I have been learning about the complex relationship between Chinese occultism, Confucianism, Daoist magic, and esoteric Buddhist traditions via @bellwen. In the Neolithic period, centuries before the birth of Christ, the imperial historian Cangjie invented writing based on the footprints of birds. During the Xia dynasty, shamanic practices facilitated a harmony between gods, people, and nature. In the...