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A Pedagogy of Gaia, by Bart Everson: “Flowers to Flame”
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What can we learn, and how can we teach, from the cycles of the Earth — both the cycles within us, and the cycles in which we find ourselves? This essay was first published at Celebration of Gaia. For Glenys…
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A Pedagogy of Gaia, by Bart Everson: “May Day x 2″
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In anticipation of May Day on May 1st and our new semi-seasonal theme, Practice, Bart Everson discusses the connection between spiritual and political desire. Two May Days? International Workers Day is celebrated on the first of May all around the…
Read MoreCategory: A Pedagogy of Gaia, Bart Everson Tags: anarchism, Beltane, International Worker's Day, liberation, May Day, Paganism, politics. activism, religion, spirituality, spring
A Pedagogy of Gaia, by Bart Everson: “Spring in the Subtropics, Spring in the Self”
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How do we cultivate a “spring in the self,” a season of renewal and rebirth within. Spring and the equinox are experienced differently at different places. The body is, of course, the ultimate localization. All our dreams start here. Let’s aim to change the world, starting with ourselves.
Read MoreCategory: A Pedagogy of Gaia, Bart Everson Tags: balance, body, Carnival, equinoxes, excess, Lent, localization, noetic fertility, purification, seasons, spring, spring equinox
A Pedagogy of Gaia: by Bart Everson: “Always Beginning Again”
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We can forget the most important experiences of all. We can and do lose touch with the most profound truths of existence. I want a reminder. I want to be nudged, shoved if need be, back to the truth. This is the trick of living, or one of the tricks anyhow. It’s easy to pay lip service to love and wonder, but I want to know it, to live it, to feel it in my bones.
Read MoreCategory: A Pedagogy of Gaia, Bart Everson, Beginnings Tags: birth, cycles, experience, insight, life, renewal, starting over
A Pedagogy of Gaia, by Bart Everson: “Solstice Connections”
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What is the reason for the reason? It’s not the solstice per se, but the instinct behind it. It’s “the same instinct” behind Natalis Invicti. What is that instinct? It wasn’t until I encountered the Wheel of the Year that I started making the necessary connections.
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