Seven Threats to Human Virtue

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Business without ethics
5. Science without  humanity
6. Religion without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle

The Fear-No-More Project

Honoring the Sacred in All Life Continue reading →

"Drifted in the Deeper Land" ~ Kerwin Whitnah

“Anthropologists have found that the single most important act for community-building is the reciprocity in gift exchanges.   Continue reading →

The first 2012 Sacred Camel Ceremony occurred on Saturday January 7 at 11am.

This ceremony was the fifth we’ve done, each one seeing progressively fuller camel participation. Continue reading →

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“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess Continue reading →

In the latter part of 2011, deep in a golden California pasture, serendipity arrived.

The bundle of patterns that is man stood beside a camel in an open field under a wide sky.

The camel and the man stood equal, the same at heart, if not in form.

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Dear Sage and Phoenix,

After months of searching we’ve finally found you a wonderful new home. If you were in the wild your parent herd would soon be sending you away over the hills to find life on your own. Thus here, too, dear camels, you will soon be moving to a new home among good people. You will always stay together. In your new home you will have everything you need and you will be lovingly cared for your entire lives. You will be allowed to be who you are, respected and honored by your new friends. I also want to tell you that we are not selling you… Continue reading →

“We need another and a wiser, and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals.

Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. Continue reading →

Once upon a time in the small sacred temple on the banks of the Wailua River the wise forest sage, Adi Da Samraj, hung a sign.

“Be Kind To All the Non-Humans, Or Else!”

When fully felt, these words may transform the way we relate to all non-humans, the natural world, life itself.

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