permaculture

[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

Here's highly recommended reading IMO relevant to this thread.  I'm only 
 partway through the first section and already I would add it to any 
permaculture "most important" reading list.  I think it speaks richly to 
 this thread (and many others...).

"Voices of the First Day - awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime," by 
Robert Lawlor, ISBN: 0892813555

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> Scott Pittman wrote:
>
> > There is something, also, that is very magic in the unspoken, that is 
> > the primary beauty of good poetry.  Bill's poetic descriptions of 
> > natural processes were very often near to evoking out of body 
> > experiences or a kind of wonder.

John Muir I find good in this way also.

>> I think that is the ultimate goal of
> > the deep ecology movement, to create an atmosphere of awe and wonder 
> > of nature and our connectedness.  As close to church as I want to be.
>
>
> Well said, Scott.
>
> This is the paragraph I like and describes why I think there is a place for
> spirituality in permaculture. A subtle state when one is in awe of the 
> mysteries, depth and infiniteness
> of nature, a state of mind when one becomes aware of the connectedness 
> of life in the universe
> and one's place in the greater scheme of things, a state of wonderment 
> and a place where the creative juices flow.

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