Earth Files #5
Thursday, October 8th 2009 @ 8:47 PM (not yet rated)
Sometimes we just have to take time out to replenish our being. How many of you have suffered from burn out? Particularly, if you are in the front lines of the environmental and green movement. But also in health, education, justice and issues around keeping the peace. Or just a break from your partner and or kids.
With more and more issues coming to our notice, often we are stretched so widely, that we have to take an in-breath and take time out.
Auckland’s Aio Wira retreat centre is situated in the bush, in the Waitakere ranges on the outskirts of the city, and you can take personal retreats as well as fasting and meditating.
When we rest and nurture our being, we can again come out into the world to participate in community and be more effective in what we do.
www.aiowira.org.nz
And we can also spend time at www.holisticliving.co.nz
As the word holistic implies we need to see and experience the universe as a harmonious and connected way of being. An open system emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.
Although often described as a New Age concept, Eastern, earth-centric, and indigenous peoples have practiced holism for many centuries. The term holism derives from the Greek holos (whole), and was first used by Jan Christian Smuts a previous South African prime minister in his book Holism and Evolution in (1926).
The notion prefigures theologian Teilhard de Chardin's theory that the human race is "evolving mentally and socially, towards a final spiritual unity."
Within this web site that you can join, you can learn of the many aspects of knowing the self, to being part of family, community from the local to the global, plus health, metaphysics and spirituality.
There are many articles of interest covering a wide range of subject matter.
www.holisticliving.co.nz
Finally, to obtain an understanding of the seriousness and urgency of climate change and what is happening ecologically on our planet:
www.JamesLovelock.org
Originator of Gaia theory, that our planet is a self regulating super organism, he is also the inventor of the electron capture detector (which made possible the detection of CFCs and other atmospheric nano-pollutants that affect the ozone layer) the microwave oven and he proved to NASA, with out them going to Mars, that there was no life as such on that planet.
Though we may strongly disagree with Lovelock because of our Nuclear Free status in NZ, the reason he pushes nuclear, is because as a polymath (being capable in a large number of scientific disciplines) he sees that overpopulating industrialized man has pushed us over the tipping point, and it his contention and many others, that it is too late to save the planet, and that we have to now save our civilsation.
He calls for a sustainable retreat. And sees only practical solutions where regrettably he gives no credence to a higher state of evolutionary consciousness to come into being, to propel us into a new unheralded co-creative consciousness where planetary oneness could instantly bring a shift in attitudes and how we see life, our selves and our planet in terms of being a high frequency, dynamic, synergistic cooperative whole.
www.JamesLovelock.org
