Category: Healing
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Stereotypes, Native Peoples, and the Environment
I awoke this morning thinking about my last post. Specifically, I was thinking about who, in our society, speaks for Mother Earth. I suspect this chain of thought was established a couple of weeks ago, when I was in a meeting. We were talking about the hope of reducing conflict in various parts of the…
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Healers, Money, and Community
When I was young, there was, in the communities I knew, an acknowledgment that most healers were poor. That was simply the price one paid for working for the Creator.
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Apus, Pachamama, and Healing
A soft rain is falling. Although we have had rain every other day, the soil and plants are dry. Today has been oppressively humid, and we have accomplished little. We did have a lovely siesta in the afternoon, when the heat and humidity were at their most oppressive. As the rain falls, Pachamama seems to…
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Gratitude, Mental Health, and Climate Change
Today I listened to part of a broadcast discussion of new research from Stanford University regarding accelerating climate change. The study found a strong likelihood that heat waves, such as we endured last week, will become increasingly common over the next thirty years. Indeed, one finding was that extreme heatwaves, events that now occur about…
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