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Your Exclusive Preview of The Great Turning at Findhorn!

21 October 2021 Leave a Comment

As you will know from our previous update, we have wound down the New Story Initiative to open to a deeper calling in service at this time.

Many of you had asked to be kept informed of what emerges and, as long-standing members of the New Story Community, you are invited to an exclusive preview of our new spiritually-inspired initiative: The Great Turning. https://greatturning.net/

Future generations, if there is a liveable world for them, will look back
on this epochal transition we are making to a life-affirming society.
And they may well call this the time of The Great Turning. It is happening now.
Joanna Macy

If, like me, and many others around the world, you are concerned about the plight of humanity and the planet, and want to cultivate an empowered and compassionate response to these challenging times, you are warmly invited to unite forces with us. Our new online spiritual network is dedicated to supporting the evolutionary leap of consciousness needed to navigate and actualise The Great Turning. We will be honouring and bringing together the visionary work of the giants whose shoulders we stand upon, among them:

Craig Schindler & Gary Lapid, who first coined the term The Great Turning in 1985 and co-authored The Great Turning: Personal Peace, Global Victory in 1989;
Joanna Macy who popularised the term through The Work That Reconnects;
Thomas Berry who championed The Great Work and The New Story;
David Korten who wrote The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community; and
Duane Elgin who recently wrote Choosing Earth: Humanity’s Great Transition to a Mature Planetary Civilisation.

The Great Turning is both the individual awakening to the light of the soul
and the spiritual emergence of humanity. It is the shift from our war-weary
adolescence as a human species to our conscious adulthood.
Craig Schindler

You can read all about our collective mission on our Great Turning website and sign up if you, too, feel the call to awaken, unite and act for future generations.

For those who have expressed that you are missing the New Story Blog digest coming into your email inbox every Friday, you can now sign up to our Great Turning Blog digest for continued inspiration.

And for those who are missing the annual September programme journeys, you are most welcome to join our Inaugural Great Turning programme coming Spring 2022.

Lastly, in early November, we’ll be releasing a video of an inspiring panel discussion featuring our Great Turning visionaries, so be sure to stay tuned to our new website for the release.

I look forward to cocreating with you a spiritually-awakened, life-affirming and resilient response to our times for the benefit of all life.

With love and in solidarity,

Mattie (for The Great Turning Initiative at Findhorn)

Socials: You can also hop on over and be among the first to follow us on your preferred social media platform…

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GreatTurningAtFindhorn
Twitter: https://twitter.com/great_turning
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/great_turning/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-great-turning

Mind and Heart ~ Charles Bukowski

12 August 2021 1 Comment

Mind and Heart by Charles Bukowski

unaccountably we are alone
forever alone
and it was meant to be
that way,
it was never meant
to be any other way–
and when the death struggle
begins
the last thing I wish to see
is
a ring of human faces
hovering over me–
better just my old friends,
the walls of my self,
let only them be there.

I have been alone but seldom
lonely.
I have satisfied my thirst
at the well
of my self
and that wine was good,
the best I ever had,
and tonight
sitting
staring into the dark
I now finally understand
the dark and the
light and everything
in between.

peace of mind and heart
arrives
when we accept what
is:
having been
born into this
strange life
we must accept
the wasted gamble of our
days
and take some satisfaction in
the pleasure of
leaving it all
behind.

cry not for me.

grieve not for me.

read
what I’ve written
then
forget it
all.

drink from the well
of your self
and begin
again.

Photo by Luo Lei on Unsplash

I tell you this ~ Mary Oliver

11 August 2021 Leave a Comment

“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.”

~ Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2

Photo by Omer Salom on Unsplash

Do What You Love

10 August 2021 1 Comment

“Sometimes what you really love in life is so unique and so yours, that nobody else on the planet will understand it. And once you bring it out, it becomes something so powerful and so beautiful.” ~ Eduardo Shimahara

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. And above all, do what you love.

This film is dedicated to the memory of Eduardo Shimahara – your words live on through us all.

It features: Eduardo Shimahara, Brett Bard, Vuyo Katsha and Catherine Davies.

Filmed in South Africa and Scotland.

Green Renaissance films are made possible through the generous support of our patrons.
To be part of this journey: https://www.patreon.com/greenrenaissance
If you’d prefer to make a one-off contribution, our PayPal details are: paypal.me/greenrenaissance

Charles Eisenstein in Conversation with Interspecies Communicator, Anna Breytenbach

9 August 2021 Leave a Comment

Anna Breytenbach is one of the world’s best known interspecies communicators, subject of the film The Animal Communicator ( youtu.be/gvwHHMEDdT0). In this conversation we touch on a couple of her stories before zooming out larger themes such as: the living planet and humanity’s role on it, the relationship between humans and the rest of life, and how to access the kind of abilities Anna has developed.

About Anna:

Anna Breytenbach is a professional interspecies communicator practicing for 20 years on several continents and featured in the documentary “The Animal Communicator”.

Native to South Africa, she holds a degree in Psychology and studied telepathic animal communication with the Assisi Institute in California as well as tracking and mentoring at the Wilderness Awareness School in Seattle.

As an experienced master facilitator she focuses on mentoring in a practical manner that reminds us humans of the ways of indigenous nature awareness. Her consultation work is exclusively with wildlife and peaceful interventions globally via remote work. This includes predator research, wilderness protection, anti-poaching assistance, biodynamic and reforestation initiatives, wildlife management and rehabilitation and numerous public appearances as an inspirational speaker.

Anna’s communication and conservation work guides people to deepen their connection with all species in an honouring manner. She’s inspired by being a voice for wild beings and natural environments.

www.animalspirit.org
www.youtube.com/c/AnimalSpirit

Watch the New Story Film

5 August 2021 Leave a Comment

Join the growing number of change makers who are taking action to accelerate a new story for humanity. Watch online or host a group screening.

Reverence for All Life ~ Chief Luther Standing Bear

28 July 2021 Leave a Comment

“Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was a real and active principle.
In the animal and bird world there existed a brotherly feeling that kept us safe among them…
The animals had rights – the right of man’s protection, the right to live, the right to multiply,
the right to freedom, and the right to man’s indebtedness.
This concept of life and its relations filled us with the joy and mystery of living;
it gave us reverence for all life; it made a place for all things in the scheme of existence with
equal importance to all.” ~ Chief Luther Standing Bear

Photo by Birger Strahl on Unsplash

Conscious Life ~ Gangaji

27 July 2021 Leave a Comment

If you are willing to take an instant to withdraw attention from whatever your internal dialogue is, to withdraw energy from whatever the latest point of view about your suffering is, it is immediately obvious what is here: the fullness, the richness, and the love of oneself as conscious life. ~ Gangaji

Photo by Jason Blackeye on Unsplash

The Ancient Woods Trailer

26 July 2021 Leave a Comment

Filmed in one of the last remaining patches of old growth forest in Lithuania, “The Ancient Woods” is a place where the boundaries of time melt and everything that exists does not wither or age but “grows into” eternity. A poetic and atypical nature film takes its viewers on the endless journey – from the forest thickets to the wolves’ caves and up to black stork’s nest, and then deep into the water to the underwater forest, returning after to the human beings inhabiting the edge of the woodland. There is no commentary, only rich, almost palpable sounds of the forest and the magical situations captured by the camera.

The film gently erases the line separating the human and natural lives, interweaving them into a single poetic story. Its style and narrative brings it close to a fantasy tale. The “Ancient Woods” was shot using original climbing and diving equipment, which enriched the cinematic language with a variety of camera angles and shots.

Shot over a 10-year period by biologist-turned-filmmaker Mindaugas Survila.

Watch the full film here.