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Spiritual Ecology
by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

How can we speak about sustainability without speaking about the Sustainer?
Finally we are waking up to our ecological imbalance, to the realities of global warming and its catastrophic consequences. It is also beginning to dawn upon us that these environmental changes are accelerating, that time is running out more quickly than we may realize. To quote a recent article in the New York Times by Paul Krugman:
The fact is that the planet is changing faster than even pessimists expected: ice caps are shrinking, arid zones spreading, at a terrifying rate. And according to a number of recent studies, catastrophe-a rise in temperature so large as to be almost unthinkable-can no longer be considered a mere possibility. It is, instead, the most likely outcome if we continue along our present course.1

I'm looking for information on firewalking. What can you tell me?

Firewalking is an ancient practice, although no one seems to know just how old it is or where it began. It apparently has been practiced for centuries by shamans, priests, and ordinary folk, as a religious ritual and as a healing ceremony. Firewalkers walk barefoot over beds of red-hot coals, usually without getting burned. The practice became popular in this country when Tolly Burkan introduced it in 1977. Burkan, a Californian on the mend after his cervical spine was crushed when he was hit by a car, was immediately hooked by what he felt was the transformative nature of firewalking and determined to teach it to others.

by Heidi Cohen-Wolff

When we break the human being down into our most finite of molecular components, we precisely reflect the same materials that make up the Earth. Our blood is 90 percent water, our breath is sustained through air and our body is made up of the same minerals as the earth's crust. It appears that our spirit is the same essence as fire, a blue flame sparked to life with divine infusion. Within each one of us lies a complex ecosystem which mirrors that of the natural world, as well as its innate wisdom to function without directions attached.