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		<title>There Will Be Earthquakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japanese Whaling]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I attended a talk last night by Evan Hodkins on Celtic Mysticism. He was talking about the importance of telling the truth and that in Celtic tradition you would stand on a stone when telling the truth. If you stood on a stone and lied, &#8220;the stone would crack and there would be earthquakes.&#8221; This made [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I attended a talk last night by Evan Hodkins on Celtic Mysticism. He was talking about the importance of telling the truth and that in Celtic tradition you would stand on a stone when telling the truth. If you stood on a stone and lied, &#8220;the stone would crack and there would be earthquakes.&#8221;</p>
<p>This made me think about the Japanese whalers and how much they have lied. They say they hunt whales for scientific purposes when in truth they killed them for food. They lied about Sea Shepherd harming them when the truth is they attempted to kill Captian Paul Watson. They lied about not trying to bribe other nations to vote in their favor at the I.W.C. meeting when the truth is those nations recently confessed that this did indeed happen.</p>
<p>So, I have a feeling that nature is going to respond to Japan&#8217;s harming the whales with some kind of earth event- not out of maliciousness or an intent to hurt or cause harm, but out of taking natural healing actions to let the Japanese whalers know that the earth will not put up with their harming and killing whales any longer. </p>
<p>In my book, Messages From The Dolphins, Chapter 4 &#8211; Dolphins to Humans on the Environment, I have said that the earth will repond to humans harmful actions by creating beneficial natural healing actions. If you follow world events then you will know that this has been occuring. The earth is wanting to get our attention so that we will begin treating all life with respect, appreciation, and gratitude.  </p>
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		<title>Attunement, Appreciation, &amp; Gratitude For Nature</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:10:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Patricia Seator, Ph.D. Eco Psychologist,  wrote these beautiful paragraphs in an article that was published in Nature As Holding Environment (copyright 2000).  She takes people into nature to help them with their lives. One of our human capacities is the ability to feel deeply. We don&#8217;t simply smell the leaf or flower, we have a feeling about that perception that has the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My friend Patricia Seator, Ph.D. Eco Psychologist,  wrote these beautiful paragraphs in an article that was published in Nature As Holding Environment (copyright 2000).  She takes people into nature to help them with their lives.</p>
<p>One of our human capacities is the ability to feel deeply. We don&#8217;t simply smell the leaf or flower, we have a feeling about that perception that has the potential to be more subtle and complex than a positive or negative response that says &#8220;eat&#8221; or &#8220;don&#8217;t eat,&#8221; &#8216;move away&#8221; or &#8220;move close.&#8221; We see an eagle in the sky and we may record it as a fact, or we may feel  deeply moved and honored to see it. What we perceive is more than texture, color, movement, and sound. We discern a greatness in the eagle that moves us- a dignity, a grandeur, a power. We have the capacity to perceive the essence of our true nature this way. Our whole soul perceives &#8211; the senses, the belly, the heart, the mind, our very cells. The heart, especially, is an organ that perceives the nuances of relationship and essence.  </p>
<p>The human who does not perceive and appreciate essence is potentially a destructive entity. A whole culture that does not exercise this capacity is a destructive force. As long as we act from concepts rather than attuned perception and appreciation, we can act brutally. If we are attuned to the sentience and value of another, it is much harder to do harm.</p>
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