I chose this experience of living in the house truck for 8 months because I want to have the experience of living in a tiny home and because I want to create a sacred life and to discover more about what that means for me.
Top of my list for a sacred life is living in nature. Over the last years I’ve lived in several homes on stilts where the main living area is not at ground level. What I like about the truck is that I go down three steps and I’m standing on the green, living earth. That’s special to me – any time of the day or night I can just step out and be on the earth and beneath the sky. The night sky always draws gasps of awe from me – how beautiful the light of the moon is and the starry canopy with Orion, the Southern Cross and the Milky Way – all daily reminders that I belong not just with the earth but also with the cosmos.
I’ve always been a big cloud gazer and being wrapped around in a big sky is essential. I love trees too and there are plenty here.
A sacred life becomes available whenever I slow down enough to experience oneness with nature – to see and hear and feel and smell and taste. To do this I need to empty my mind and approach in a state of openness and receptivity.
Starhawk, in her book, The Earth Path, says: “We are not separate from nature but in fact are nature”. We can evolve from “believing we must work with nature, to seeing us as working within nature, to understanding that we are nature working.”
She goes on to say: “Studying the language of nature can be a dangerous undertaking. For to become literate in nature’s idiom, we must challenge our ordinary perceptions and change our consciousness. We must, to some extent, withdraw from many of the underlying assumptions and preoccupations of our culture….The great conversation is happening around us in many dimensions. Magic might also be called the art of opening our awareness to the consciousnesses that surround us, the art of conversing in the deep language that nature speaks. And magic teaches us to break spells , to shatter the encorcellment that keeps us psychologically locked away from the natural world….We are part of the living earth, and to connect with her is to connect with the deepest parts of ourselves. We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us.”
Now there’s a woman after my own heart! Perhaps the main reason I am here in this particular spot is that it provides me with a perfect container to listen more closely to the Earth – and to universal intelligence – and develop my relationship with the Life-Love- force that flows through everything.
For a long time I’ve held the notion that writing can be a form of spiritual activism. Living here at the edge of sea and land and sky, being willing to empty my mind and feel into nature and cosmos with my whole being, honouring the messages that come to me, even though they may be as ephemeral as dreams, writing down what I sense and hear and publishing it. Maybe this is a good way be an earth-healer.
What makes life sacred for you? What really feeds your soul so much that you must create a life that includes it?
For more about living a sacred life see my ebook, A Soulful Life: www.twentyfirstcenturynomad.net/resources .
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