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The Miracle of We ~ Reclaiming Our EcoSpiritual Roots
“If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Rich Silver’s many mystical experiences while wandering alone in the wild have inspired him to teach the importance of reclaiming the lost capacity for inter-species communication common to early indigenous people, a capacity that can lead to ever-deepening care and compassionate action for both the human world and the natural world.
The subject of his doctoral dissertation, titled, The Miracle of We: A Post-Rational Animism, examines the claim of Dr. George Washington Carver, “Anything will speak to you if you love it enough.” There, he demonstrated the importance of reaching our greater human potentials by developing trans-rational awareness and knowing. As a research-based stage of higher human development, trans-rational awareness is a capacity of the heart, not the head, enabling inter-species and multidimensional communication. It is through developing this capacity and healing our species-wide narcissism and autism that Rich believes we will find our way forward and come to truly know, "We are all in this together."
In indigenous societies, if you could not communicate across species boundaries, if you could not hear the voice of the birds, trees, mountains, and streams, you were considered mentally ill and would be sent to the village therapist, called the shaman, for an intervention. Today, if you can communicate with the Beings of Nature, you are considered mentally ill and sent to a therapist, diagnosed as psychotic, and put on drugs.
"The failure of modern psychology to appreciate the potential value of such common perceptions
as hearing voices and visions is a serious limitation of the existing Western belief system.”
~ James Swan, PhD, Environmental Psychologist
We invite you to join us at our campus in the Lost Sierra for an EcoSpiritual Quest to reclaim your divine right of inter-species communication.
