"If you will think of ourselves as coming out of the earth, rather than having been thrown in here from somewhere else, you see that we are the earth, we are the consciousness of the earth. These are the eyes of the earth. And this is the voice of the earth."
Joseph Campbell, "The Power of Myth"
"Holy Mother Earth, the trees and all nature, are witnesses to your thoughts and deeds."
A Winnebago saying
"…I am the murmur of leaves rustling.
I am the rays of the sun,
I am the beam of the moon and stars,
I am the power of trees growing,
I am the bud breaking into blossom…"
The Black Book of Carmarthen
"Indigenous teachings embrace the divine feminine in a way that is crucial for healing ourselves and the earth. For thousands of years, it has been known that everything that exists in this world is alive and has a spirit. We are connected to a web of life that is impacted by the behavior of all that is alive…"
Sandra Ingerman (Contemporary Shaman)
"…the World Soul could express its dark side, like the Kali side of the feminine, and become incredibly destructive. That is a very real possibility. Because as we have forgotten the world is a living being, we have also forgotten the powers of creation can get angry. That forgetting belongs to the masculine myth of domination and control that says we can control nature. We believe that nothing too bad can happen, since, as we're told, nature is not really alive. But this is not so. This is why in ancient times, the people were very careful in their relationship to nature and the spirits of nature, why they learned how to talk to nature and to be present within nature, and how to listen to it, how to make a living relationship with it. Now you go out on the freeways and the shopping malls and the TV channels and it isn't there; there isn't even memory of it, let alone any sense of how to bring it alive…"
"We can include the Earth in our prayers and in our awareness…If we have any duty to the whole, if there is anything we owe to creation, we should remember the world in our prayers and meditation. The world's soul is present as part of us, crying out for our remembrance."
Llewellyn Vaughan- Lee