The guru – our teacher – is everything. Everything we need to know is already within us and the world around us. What happens is, we have blocks to that knowing. Whatever experiences we might have – growing up with imperfect parents, what society tells us – all these things create blocks…. There are these wonderful tools that help us move around, through, see over, and transform these blocks. One tool is spending quiet time in the natural world . People have always asked me who my mentors have been: it’s always been the natural world. I’m not disavowing or disrespecting the incredible insights from human mentors. But growing up, I had a lot of examples of who I didn’t want to be. I didn’t get to be gifted with people I could look up to who could mentor me. So nature is where I went for that. Whatever the tools we have, they just help us get through the blocks quicker.”
Interview with Elisa Parker, with Annette Dunklin, from the podcast See Jane Do, Radical Replenishment, published May 2016
Thank you for your vulnerability and offering such wisdom and truth. I resonate with your answer. The deeper I can fall into nature and away from man made everything, the voices of wisdom, of ancient ones, of spirit, of truth grows louder and I remember…
Thank you for sharing Danielle.
Love,
julia
Hi lady. I’ve been thinking about you and wondering how you’re doing.
Hello Rob! Will send you a personal email.
Love,
julia
Same with me- my alcoholic family left me with only nature to turn to; and I’m still that way. It’s difficult to find a human relationship that works. I have two now. I can’t do intimacy, just friendship; it’s my thing.
I will be joining the Happy Heart Haven in Valley Center, CA. They rescue farm animals. Previously I have only rescued wild animals, mostly birds, insects (Monarch Mama) and small animals. I’ve got about 30 caterpillars right now under my protection. In two weeks = Butterflies! I show them to people just before they take off.
I tutored about 50+ kids in math and reading, as a volunteer in the schools. They worked so hard for me and we learned a lot. Amazing!
I love your book “The Legacy of Luna”. I met you in Eugene OR, at the Peace Conference, the University of Oregon. I studied NVC, Marshall Rosenberg, a special time.
As a kid, I spent so much time in a particular tree, I bent it!
I follow Jesus Christ and have found that about half the Christians don’t follow Christ; they follow each other “the blind leading the blind, shall they not both fall into the ditch?”
My mother taught me one thing of importance (besides art), God is in nature, not tucked away in boxes people call churches or cathedrals of worship. He is in nature, and at 73 I can thank her profoundly for teaching me that one most important truth.
Happy to see you are taking care of yourself!
Cherie
Thank you for sharing Cherie.
Love,
julia
I look forward to your event at Clubhouse on June 19, 2021. Taking the time to enrich my heart with your life stories. Thank you. God bless????????❤️????✋????
Thank You Petra. Please share the information with everyone you know and have them share as well. The more people who are able to tune in, the further our reach.
Love,
julia