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Earth Vision Website
by Josef Graf

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
- Henry David Thoreau

Earth Vision uses the discipline of spiritual ecology to observe the natural world and its parallel in the human soul. The process induces self-awakening, in that the deeper readers delve into the inward ecology of Earth Vision, the more they arrive at their own appreciation of the interweave between nature and the soul.

There was a time when he thought of himself as a common denominator, a sort of third millennium everyman. But that was before rapport with his wife, like a high north snowstorm, descended to oblivion, bringing his marriage to an end. And that was before life in a materialistic society obsessed with acquisition had lost its appeal, before the geese of his navigational bearing started altering their lines of migration, before the herds of vigilance fractured their antlers on the turbine of modernity.
Seeking relief from an existential emptiness of midlife, now mounting to quiet desperation, this modern man turns his back on mediocrity and the status quo, and travels west to where the land comes to an end and a great sea stretches out beyond comprehension.
For three days he camps there, where the sea of spirit communes with the ground of physicality, and opens his soul to the interchange.
On the third evening, before turning in, his journal entry:

What lies beyond the veil, beyond what nature presents? When moved to a state of wonder by a striking vista with its light, color, and emotive quality, I know I am somehow encountering a part of myself. And, if nature serves as a catalyst for inner beings to express themselves, am I not compelled to go on a quest to encounter the full range of inhabitants across my interior continent?

And in the moment of his epiphany he resolves to shine his heart's lamp upon a deep ecology, to explore how the soul choreographs itself within the theatre of nature.
That night, before sleep takes him, in this setting on the brink of the untamable vault, aware that he must now transcend common perception, he finds himself turning away from the notion that the problem with his interface with nature is one of distance, of separation. Rather, the problem, it seems to him, revolves around a need to acknowledge a profound intimacy. Furthermore, this resonance with nature, he feels, might not only empower humanity to survive beyond the 21st century, but to flourish.
For the world is dark enough. And the question ever returns: how will we bring light into it?

Excerpt from the Prologue of: EARTH VISION, a travelogue of spiritual ecology, by author Josef Graf. To view more, go to www.evbooks.net

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Posted on: December 15,2007

Email: josefgrafev@yahoo.ca
Website: http://www.evsite.net