Author Archives: Allysyn Kiplinger
Earth Jurisprudence Overview
To begin the conversation, here are four organizations that focus on Earth Jurisprudence. Center for Earth Jurisprudence, Patricia Siemen, O.P., Executive Director https://earthjuris.org/ Offices are in South and Central Florida, USA. The mission of the Center for Earth Jurisprudence … Continue reading
Reinventing the Human
by Allysyn Kiplinger Earth created the human creature and endowed it with certain capacities, like language acquisition and creation, problem-solving for survival, bonding with friends and family, as well as its physiology. For the last 12,000 to 50,000 years, maybe … Continue reading
Thanksgiving Prayer from the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Nation
It is good to give thanks more than once a year. Visual artist Angela Manno sent this in. (See her gallery at https://www.angelamanno.com/.) Ohen:ton Karihwatehkwen "Words Before All Else" This prayer is a gift from the Haudenosaunee People (The Iroquois Nation) … Continue reading
A Few Thanksgiving Thoughts from TB
Thomas says: I think the Iroquois thanksgiving ceremony is one of the greatest of all religious festivals. The Iroquois remember and thank fifteen or more specialized powers, including the water, the rain, the wind, the earth, the trees. This is … Continue reading
A Thanksgiving Eve Blessing by Diane Pendola
Communion Take and eat. This is my body: Light turned green in tongues of grass, turned flesh in grazing herds, turned love in human hearts. Take and drink. This is my blood: Life rising in springs, flowing in rivers, … Continue reading
Ecozoic Movies?
What would an "Ecozoic" film be, anyway? Zero carbon foot print? Earth is the star with the human in a supporting role? I'm not sure if these movies are technically "Ecozoic", but they are very well-told stories that question or … Continue reading
?The Dream of the Earth in Spanish? Si!
I heard good gossip tonight at the Teilhard Conference that a Spanish language Dream of the Earth is in the works. Fantastic. Check back in a year or two – it is a big project!
The Difference Between an Environmentalist and a Cosmologist…
Tonight, after Brian Swimme's talk and the wine and cheese reception at the opening of the conference "Teilhard for a New Generation" at Santa Clara University, Dr. Linda Gibler and I got to talking. These pearls fell from her lips: … Continue reading
The Oldest Living Members of the Earth Community – photos
Tree: sagole baobab #0707-00505 (2,000 years old; limpopo province, south africa) Rachael Sussman https://rachelsussman.com/portfolios/OLTW/main.html Bacteria: siberian actinobacteria #tv-26 (400,000 – 600,000 years old; neils bohr institute, copenhagen) Rachael Sussman recently presented at The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco, … Continue reading