A series of interviews with Azul Thome for SOULand called:
'Conversation with Grief&Water'
~ a response to a message from Water ~
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Here is the message from Water at the River Dart, Devon, England passed on to Azul on 2nd Dec 2016:
" My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe! One grey day of December I found my self by the river Dart in Devon who gifted me with an astonishing message of Love. The months that followed were hard with a depth of loneliness and fear of being entrusted with such stream of wisdom in a world that does not value the language of the Other and does not know much about Grief, Love, Death or reBirth.... As Spring 2017 came I gathered the courage and fiery passion to share the Water's message with others. A Series of Interviews came out of it. It is a series of interviews with women and men engaging fully with our collapsing world, our dying systems, our grief, our deep love and longing to fully participate in our world in ways of soul and beauty. What would be your response? Here below is theirs… Azul-Valerie Thome |
Below are the responses of good people...a growing river.
These interviews have one thread in common. A message that was given to me by Water on the 2nd of Dec 2016. This message is read to each person in this 'Conversations with Grief' activating a unique response.
So far I have spoken with and recorded Joanna Macy, Jon Young, Francis Weller, Manda Scott, Pat McCabe, Megan Hollingsworth, Stephan Harding, Pablo Servigne, Stephen Jenkinson, Simon Be, and Li An Phoa… each one bringing a thread for a cloth weaving in the past, present and future…
I anticipate mystery and our bone memory to be awakened by it.
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Dear Azul-Valerie |
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'Conversation with Grief' starts with Jon Young and his beautiful ways of weaving words and heart.
Jon Young: For over 30 years, Jon Young has been a leader in the field of village building, nature-based education, Permaculture and cultural mentoring, implementing vital advancements in the understanding and benefits of effective nature- and people-connection modeling. Jon is a deep nature connection mentor, wildlife tracker, peacemaker, author, workshop leader, village builder, consultant, inspiring public speaker and storyteller. Listen to this conversation on SoundCloud |
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Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer and soul activist. He is a master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures and poetic traditions. Author of The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. The core of his work is creating pathways to reclaiming our indigenous soul, what psychologist Carl Jung called the “unforgotten wisdom” that resides in the heart of the psyche. To further this work, he founded and directs WisdomBridge, an organization that offers educational programs that seek to integrate the wisdom from traditional cultures with the insights and knowledge gathered from western cultures.
He has created three CD sets, two focusing on healing shame and one on “Restoring the Soul of the World.” More info here Listen to this conversation on SoundCloud |
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Manda Scott is the author of 16 novels, including the Boudica: Dreaming series. Formerly a vet, she is currently studying for an MA in Economics for Transition at Schumacher College in Devon. When she isn’t writing, she teaches contemporary shamanic dreaming courses, and pursues her own practice, always with the question, ‘What do you want of me?’
In February 2017, she set up One Hour for One World in an effort to bring humanity’s consciousness to bear on the crises afflicting the world. The invitation is to bring one hour of attention at 7pm GMT/BST (local London time) on the first Sunday of every month. If not us, who? If not now, when? Books: http://www.mandascott.co.uk dreaming: http://www.dreamingawake.co.uk OHOW: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/One-Hour-for-One-World-384997371866303/ Listen to our conversation on SoundCloud |
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Pat McCabe ~ Woman Stands Shining responds with a deeply moving prayer and a praise to Water in response to the above message, deep gratitude for your love.
Woman Stands Shining, Pat McCabe, has the honour of being of the Dine (Navajo) Nation. She brings the understanding of Indigenous ways of knowing into discussion and inquiry on Sustainability. She carries the foundation of Beauty and Spirit into places where it has been kept out. Pat is an active participant in Indigenous Peoples gatherings worldwide including Chile, Belgium, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and Bali. She has worked with the International Center for Cultural Studies in India and with Sarvodaya with Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne in Sri Lanka, as well as with organizations and gatherings in the U.S. She has been a cultural consultant to the Pachamama Alliance, presenting at the 2013and 2014 National Bioneers Conference, and presenting on “The Feminine Design and Sustainability” in the U.S. and Internationally. She first came to the UK in 2014, as an invited guest to the New Story Summit at Findhorn Community, Scotland. She also visited Devon that year, and returned to lead sessions of the Becoming Indigenous course at Schumacher College in 2015 .Listen to the prayer and praise to Water on SoundCloud |
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Megan's response is of Life herself. Vibrant, real, raw and so beautiful…we are getting closer to hearing what Water said.
Megan Hollingsworth is a mother, healer, and scribe with near Irish, English, and German roots. She is writer and creative director at Project VIRGin, an evolution of Extinction Witness, which she initiated in 2012. Project VIRGin is a collaborative personal and planetary peacemaking project that facilitates healing and engages in creative witness to unnecessary loss, pain, and suffering, with resolve to forward the wake-up and a universally compassionate marketplace. Megan holds MS in Environmental and Grief Studies (2007 University of Montana, Missoula) and BS with High Distinction in Interdisciplinary Applied Health Science (1997 Indiana University, Bloomington). She lives in Montana, United States. See http://www.waildance.com and http://www.projectvirgin.org Listen to the Conversation on SoundCloud You can find Megan's two beautiful poems Do Not Think It Will Be Death - Fire Famine & Flood - |
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Stephan Harding: Since childhood Stephan has had a deep fascination with the natural world, and his scientific cast of mind lead him to do a degree in Zoology at the University of Durham and then a doctorate on the behavioural ecology of the muntjac deer at Oxford University. After completing his first degree he returned to Venezuela where he was a field assistant for the Smithsonian Institute, studying mammalian diversity in the rainforest and in the lowland plains. After Oxford Stephan was appointed Visiting Professor in Wildlife Management at the National University in Costa Rica, where he lived for two years before becoming a founder member of Schumacher College in 1990. At Schumacher College Stephan has taught alongside many of the world’s leading ecological thinkers and activists, including Arne Naess, Fritjof Capra, Vandana Shiva, David Abram, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis.
Stephan is author of Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia. Green Books, and editor of Grow Small, Think Beautiful. Floris Books. He is also the writer and presenter of the documentary film Animate Earth, produced by Angel TV. Listen to the Conversation on SoundCloud |
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Pablo Servigne repond au message de l'Eau ici en conversation avec Azul Thome visionnaire and fondatrice de SOULand,
Pablo Servigne est père de deux jeunes garçons et a quitté la vie urbaine il y a trois ans pour s'installer dans la montagne. Il a une formation d’ingénieur agronome et un doctorat en biologie. Il a aussi quitté le monde académique en 2008 pour devenir « chercheur in-terre-dépendant ». Auteur et conférencier (author and speaker), il anime aussi des ateliers de permaculture et de Travail-qui-relie (de Joanna Macy). Ses principaux ouvrages : Nourrir l’Europe en temps de crise. Vers de systèmes alimentaires résilients (Nature & Progrès Belgique, 2014), Petit traité de résilience locale (Charles Leopold Meyer, 2015), Comment tout peut s’effondrer. Petit manuel de collapsologie à l’usage des générations présentes (Seuil, 2015), et L'entraide, l'autre loi de la jungle (Les Liens qui Libèrent, à paraitre). Ecoutez la conversation sur SoundCloud |
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After a standing ovation and an Encore Night of Grief and Mystery in Totnes last night (24th May 2017) co-hosted by SOULand, Stephen and our small gathering seat around a table for a midnight feast, delicious wine and single heathery malt. Stephen Jenkinson hears from me of the message of Water. We stumble together through our tiredness and delights to weave a conversation. Here it is… Background noises are of feeding, greeting and gathering ~ grateful! Orphan Wisdom - Stephen Jenkinson Stephen is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and making human culture. It is rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry, working for a time yet to come. http://www.wisdombridge.net Listen to the Conversation on SoundCloud |
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Simon Be and Azul Thomé converse with Grief, Love and Water Simon Be from #RisingUp, #ExtinctionRebellion and other 'trouble' offers to respond to the Message of Water in conversation with Azul Valérie Thomé Simon Bramwell is a Pagan celebrant, a carer, and co founder of Rising Up, a direct action network and the lightning tree project, a deep inquiry into what skills are needed to village build at the end of the world. He's also a member of the highly dubious Medicinal Order of the Hyena , an international covergence of revolutionary witch's. He's been a recovering hope addict for the past decade and remains smitten by grief, love and the absolute conviction that true change can only be wrought through direct action in both the inner and outer worlds. He's currently busy co creating the extinction rebellion, a non violent campaign for ecological and social change. He recognises that no lasting change will occur until the earth shakes with unacknowledged grief and the initiation it brings. |
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Li An Phoa responds here to the message of Water.
Li An is a watershed system’s thinker & actor. Trained in whole system ecology, philosophy and business, she engages people through outdoor learning experiences and initiates projects on landscapes, food and water. She started Drinkable Rivers, as indicators for healthy living. She mobilises people in watersheds by organising walks that connect us on a deeply personal level, as a group/team and with the genius of place. She walked 1061km from source-to-sea walk along the river Meuse-Maas and engaged local people to care for Drinkable Rivers and in a water quality citizen science research. She is number 19 in the Dutch Trouw Sustainable Top100 and gave a TEDx talk on Drinkable Rivers. www.DrinkableRivers.org | www.SpringCollege.org |
Here is the message from Water again:
" My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling YOU Humans, to Us so we can Save YOUR species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive Sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life "
What would your response be?
[email protected]
Azul-Valerie Thome
" My dear child do not worry about me, Water. I recover quickly with the song of our birds, the love of trees, with movement, moments of rest and the prayers moving around our Earth. I regain balance with your heartfelt tears, your remembered songs added to the ones of so many now. Do not focus your energy on 'Saving me'. Something way more profound is taking place right now, listen and observe!
All of us; Soil, Water, Plants, Air, Animals and all Ancestors are Calling YOU Humans, to Us so we can Save YOUR species. We know and have known for a while that you do not have much time left if you do not wake up to your birthright Belonging to Earth and come Home soon, real real soon. We keep dying, we keep Giving Away our Lives to shake you up from a deep and very long amnesia. Once you can allow the truth and quality of such Love to permeate through your traumatised being and desolate soul you will wake up from a life time of anesthesia to your immense grief and capacity for Love.
When you create containers of sacred beauty that opens your Heart to what Love truly is then you will realise with a massive Sob that you were loved all along, always have and for ever by all of Us who you think You are Saving!
You have five years as a species to Wake up, Mature and Remember in your bones that you belong to Life "
What would your response be?
[email protected]
Azul-Valerie Thome
Azul-Valerie Thome singing her soul song to Water