Gaia’s own liturgy offers the possibility that we be released from the binding structures of the Western mind. A new liturgy and its rituals can blur the edges of our sense of self and open the door to unitary states: unite the boundlessness of Spirit with the eternally cycling here and now.
Gaian liturgy is sacramental: outward and visible realities express the subtle movements of Spirit. The unfurling of an emerald fiddlehead fern announces the sacred miracle of Spirit’s seed. It unfolds not only in the green world, but also in the sacrament of our own bodies. The tangible and finite make Spirit visible.
A sensate liturgy offers us a communal lens through which to witness truth. With spoken rhythms and gestures, scriptures and texts, prayer’s call and response, the human community is woven together for a sacred moment outside of time into one body, one heart, one mind. We become one living expression of praise, in communion with all beings. The resonant states created by a participatory liturgy lift us out of isolation, unbind us from the narrow confines of solitary thought. We become embedded in something greater than ourselves, a pervasive joyous intelligence.
In these invocations we return to a liturgy of the incarnate deity. Let us gather friends and family, and together experience these healing, unitive states. Let them be written into our bloodstream, carried in the rhythm of our footsteps. Let us walk this ecstatic unity into the moments of our daily lives.
From my book of poems to the Earth, A Litany of Wild Graces
Forward Wild Graces to a friend
There they’ll find Nesting Circles of Belonging ~ Family, Nature and Cosmos.
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