Tending a Blue Jay with Ecological Reiki

By Blog, Ecological Reiki
Today’s wildlife rehabilitation loss is among my worst. Earlier, I brought a young blue jay, recently fledged, to the veterinary clinic to be humanely euthanized. He had been grabbed by a dog after he landed in the dog’s pen and wasn’t yet flying well enough to quickly escape. The tiny bones at the end of his wing, like your fingers,…
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Sri Aurobindo’s Ecological Wisdom: Including Integral Yoga in Interdisciplinary Scholarship on the Biodiversity Crisis

By Papers
It is of upmost importance for academia to promote interdisciplinary approaches to understand and support biodiversity, the variety of life on Earth as a whole and within smaller ecosystems. As we are now in or entering a crisis of mass extinction, discovering means to communicate what biodiversity is and why preservation is needed, especially when a means included spiritual justification…
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An Interdisciplinary Path toward Expertise in the Biodiversity Crisis

By Papers
There have always been extinctions of species occurring at a background rate of approximately one species disappearing every seven hundred years. A mass extinction event occurs when many species disappear within a short period of time, causing a considerable loss of global biodiversity, well above the background extinction rate. Today, Earth is experiencing, or is close to experiencing, a mass…
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Biodiversity is Magic

By Blog, Real Wilding, Spiritual Ecology
Growing up, I was blessed to have many encounters with other forms of life. My parents, and their parents, were water people. I knew the ocean and I knew lakes. I also knew the marshes, beaches, and woods along their shores, and the beings who live in and around the water, from jellyfish and horseshoe crabs, to gulls and minnows,…
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