Blog of the Eco-Dharma Group
At each meeting of It’s Alive! one of our members will offer a talk about a project close to their heart; a time for heartfelt discussion and sharing stories.
Maxine’s Talk: Deep Time Spiral walk for Earth Day
A transcript of the talk Maxine gave the Deep Time Spiral Walk is available here. It will be made available as a podcast.
Have come from earth
And earth is where
this body shell
shall stay
Of the stars
Not knowing
what that means
Of the sky
Beginning out of the beginningless time spiral of 13.7 billion years ago. In the ether of molten gases before a whiff of cellular organism. The beyond time story begins. I am not a scientist and have no expertise as to the formation of this universe but when I recently experienced this story at a Deep Ecology Yatra in early 2020 in NZ I felt a strong inspiration to retell it in our local community at an Earth day event. For us humans we need to be reminded of this over and over again. The words we used at our ritual were those used by John Seed inspired by the work of Joanna Macy and written by Miriam McGillis. The spiral walk leads us through the billions of years and after the three spirals we see how the importance of us humans is greatly diminished. The stardust heritage waiting for us at the completion of this life and the great turning of this universe will continue.
4 replies on “Deep Time Spiral Walk”
From stardust to this beautiful planet our home, nothing missing, nothing left out. A lucky, lucky life!
Exciting – bravo to you both for being first up with talks – looking forward very much to hearing them
Beautiful, Ines. Thank you. One of my greatest teachers was my father. He began to teach me about my small place in our infinite Universe from a very young age with exactly this kind of perspective. You are right that we humans need to be reminded of reality’s 13-billion year time spiral, often. Astonishing!
Oh, the time spiral post is from Maxine. Beautiful, Maxine. 🙂 And look forward to your talk on the terrible Murray Darling situation, Ines. Is there any silver lining…?