Mutual Flourishing for Self and Earth

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Chara Armon writes, teaches, and speaks on topics related to the links between human wellbeing and ecological wellbeing.

This is mutual flourishing in action.
05/31/2019

This is mutual flourishing in action.

A Turkish pop music festival which was planned to take place on June 5-7 in Turkey’s southern province of Mersin has been delayed due to concerns about the spawning period of the endangered caretta carettas, after outcries from environmentalists and a lawmaker.

Rights for trees? Yes! Read the article to see the beautiful discussion in France.
04/11/2019

Rights for trees? Yes! Read the article to see the beautiful discussion in France.

The National Assembly said trees should have the ‘right to develop … reproduce.’

I met an interesting friend in the garden today.  I’ve never seen such a tiny praying mantis—maybe half an inch long.
06/25/2018

I met an interesting friend in the garden today. I’ve never seen such a tiny praying mantis—maybe half an inch long.

Beautiful writing about coming home to the land that knows you best.
05/08/2017

Beautiful writing about coming home to the land that knows you best.

It would be easy to say that I should never have left. It would be easy to tell myself that I should have known better, twenty years ago, than to leave. When a land claims you from the first moment…

03/19/2017

"In becoming Homo luminous, we'll discard the masculine theology that values command, control, and dominion over nature to embrace an older, feminine theology of cooperation and sustainability."

─Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.

Friends, I encourage you to watch this 8-minute wisdom teaching from Martha Beck.  It is encouraging, inspiring, a bit f...
03/12/2017

Friends, I encourage you to watch this 8-minute wisdom teaching from Martha Beck. It is encouraging, inspiring, a bit funny, and in my view, right on in its idea about how we shift the world in a healing direction. Watch and share!

The problem with revolutionary change is that it tends to recreate the system it overthrows. The world is ready for a different kind of change, and it's comi...

How is this for Mutual Flourishing?  I am so inspired by stories such as this of how we can learn to partner with animal...
03/11/2017

How is this for Mutual Flourishing? I am so inspired by stories such as this of how we can learn to partner with animals and their talents instead of fearing or harming them.

Can a rat be a hero? It can if it saves lives. Meet the giant rats that sniff out landmines and TB

02/12/2017

Are you interested in joining a global moment of healing activation? It's happening this Tuesday, February 14.

On Feb. 14 at 12 noon, EST (U.S. Eastern Standard Time / New York Time) , please go to Temple of Sacred Sound to tone the heart sound "Ah" as a Sonic Valentine for Mother Earth for 5 minutes or more, joining thousands of others throughout the planet on this award winning interactive website.

If you are not near a computer or can not participate in the 12 noon, EST event, please feel free to tone at Noon in your own local time zone. Also know that on Feb. 14th you may also participate, anytime, anywhere (wherever you are, whatever time it is). Simply take at least 5 minutes out of your day and project the heart sound "Ah" filled with Light & Love to Mother Earth, as a Sonic Valentine for Global Harmonization.

If possible, please gather with others in a group to collectively tone together for this event.

The purpose of World Sound Healing Day is:

To positively affect the Earth through the use of sound in order to:
Heal Our Planet!
Heal Our Waters!
Raise Our Consciousness!

Please pass this information on to others.

We trust this is helpful. We're really looking forward to resonating together with you this Feb. 14 for World Sound Healing Day!

With Our Light, Our Love and Our Sound,
We Can Change the World!

Jonathan Goldman & Andi Goldman
Sound Healers Association

01/09/2017

I am reading Michael Northcott's Place, Ecology, and the Sacred in preparation for a new course I'll be teaching. Sitting before the fire because our furnace broke last night, I hear a terrible noise outside the window and stand to look out. A majestic conifer across the street, about 4 or 5 storeys tall and in gorgeous health, has been quickly cut down and is being fed to the shredding machine. What irony. As I read about how western culture has come to see no land or plant or animal as sacred, this tree meets its end. Why, I do not know. It stands on my neighbor's property but I doubt she would choose to pay to have it removed. I have seen gas line tags placed along the street in the past few days so I suspect the tree may be being sacrificed for gas line repair--which creates a double irony as I sit huddled before the fire on a day when my gas furnace is not functioning, yearning for it to function again to warm my frigid home. Tree, I am sorry. I am sorry I currently use gas to heat my home and cook my food; I am sorry my neighbors do the same and that this desire for fuel appears to be the cause of your demise. I will miss you, and even more, perhaps, I will miss the call of the owls that often have perched amid your branches. Tree, I am sorry.

A thoughtful article by my former student, Alissa Welker.
01/03/2017

A thoughtful article by my former student, Alissa Welker.

About 30 minutes into the conversation with Farmer Bob* I hesitantly admitted that I was an environmental science major. I only let this…

12/14/2016

All things by immortal power
Near or far,
Hiddenly
To each other linked are,
That thou canst not stir a flower
Without troubling of a star.

– FRANCIS THOMPSON

12/12/2016

I am moved by this--letting ourselves be wild; remembering our inner wildness; honoring our connections to the wild.

12/07/2016

This is very beautiful. Genuine apologies are a step in healing. May Caucasian and Indigenous peoples, and all peoples everywhere, apologize sincerely for the harm we have caused to one another and learn to live in true love and harmony on our shared planet.

12/02/2016

Please "Like" my friend Sebastian Kretschmer's page. He has international experience in organic and biodynamic farming and is currently building a prison orchard program in Philadelphia. Beautiful work for people and planet!

Cultivating resilience in communities worldwide by building sustainable food systems.

Join in a specific intention for Standing Rock, please.  The situation is very serious given that Army Corps says they m...
11/30/2016

Join in a specific intention for Standing Rock, please. The situation is very serious given that Army Corps says they may evacuate the camp on Monday. I don't have time to share the current science supporting 'the holding of intention,' but please join as you can. And please share this.

Standing Rock

While many have been called to North Dakota to stand with the water protectors in response to the planned oil pipeline expansion throughout their sacred lands, I have been called to visualize a specific outcome that I wish to share with you. If you feel inspired, please join me in visualizing this exact outcome so we may work together on an energetic level to create a collective tipping point for the well-being of our beloved planet. While nothing can be guaranteed, it is essential that we always visualize the results we desire with absolute passion and focused intention, so the highest outcome can be actualized into present moment time.

Before sharing this vision, let’s explore a lesser known facet of the law of intention. It was described to me by the Universe as the Law of Divine Inevitability. Through this law, outcomes are inevitable, but require our individual and collective participation to make it so. It’s as if the time and energy we put into one direction allows each participating individual or group to expand in vibration. The higher individuals or groups elevate vibrationally, the faster consciousness expands to manifest a new reality on both the individual and collective levels.

While outcomes are destined, it is our individual and collective efforts that determine the path of how quickly or slowly destiny unfolds. Each option of how quickly or slowly outcomes play out exist in parallel timelines of reality. So in essence, through the law of Divine Inevitability, we focus our efforts to call forward the highest outcome that allows our individual and collective consciousness to move into the highest timeline of spiritual and social resolution. Even if the outcome we desire doesn’t match what is bound to unfold, the individuals working through the Law of Divine Inevitability still have the power to shift timelines, entering a reality where the highest evolution unfolds as a result of any outcome, while allowing any heartbreaking outcome to negatively impact the least amount of lives.

This means that every moment of intention counts, whether or not the outcome you are anchoring matches the results that are meant to be. No matter what unfolds, the individuals participating in anchoring the highest intention of all always expand in vibration. As this occurs it increases the likelihood that others around them will expand to create a tipping point where injustice, inequality, suffering, global warming, abuse, greed, and deception ceases to exist. In essence, we anchor the highest outcome with relentless passion, while surrendering to the will of Divinity to reveal what is meant to be. This is how we assist the tribe members of our soul family on the frontlines of Standing Rock or any other social circumstance as peaceful guardians and heart-centered wayshowers of a new vibrational reality.

In knowing the benefits we contribute to the sum of whole, no matter which timeline plays out, I’d like to share with you an intention I am anchoring:

When tuning into possible timelines for the stand-off at Standing Rock, I was shown an image of President Obama holding a press conference. During this press conference, in one of his final acts as President, Obama officially declared Standing Rock a historic landmark prohibiting any future pipeline expansion on or around it. As he made it official, the vision then shifted to Standing Rock, where thousands of water protectors reacted in the triumph of peaceful victory, as law enforcement was ordered to back away and retreat.

Through the Law of Divine Inevitability, I invite you to strengthen your intention muscles by anchoring this outcome many times throughout the day. Simply visualize these precise images and allow yourself to feel whatever depth of peace, harmony, excitement, or joy bubbles up within you. Even if not feeling such positive emotions, simply envision this outcome to increase the likelihood of it manifesting into form. Whether this occurs exactly as we intend, or moves consciousness into a higher timeline of less violence and a faster trajectory of global awakening, our efforts always count as we participate in the unfolding times of our long-awaited destiny.

So many of us know exactly the kind of world we wish to live in, but when the outcomes we seek appear daunting or insurmountable, one of the most counter-productive thing we can do is to stand by and do nothing at all. Egos either fight for or against change. Souls anchor change while standing for peace. Spiritual egos turn away from difficulties while waiting for someone else to create the change they secretly yearn to see. Now is the time to decide through our choices, words, and actions who we truly wish to be. Resolve can be swift, peaceful, and powerful in its unfolding, but it requires the conscious intention of many to focus their efforts in a singular direction, as energetic support for those standing on the frontlines in person.

May we unite together as One, intending for Standing Rock to be made a historical landmark as our first bold step in restoring power to the consciousness of the people who live with reverence, honor, and respect for Mother Earth. If you also wish to visualize light surrounding each person at Standing Rock as protection from the cold weather and brutality, please feel free to contribute whatever you called to envision for the benefit of all.

No matter how much or how little you wish to offer, thank you for your help in anchoring this intention, as well as forwarding this post to everyone you know to maximize its power and potency. Julie and I both stand for Standing Rock and gladly offer our time and energy to visualizing the positive outcomes that we wish to be. Together we stand united as one, as never before that I AM now.


Many blessings to all,

Matt & Julie

11/09/2016

This Dine/Navajo man is from my homeland--CO and NM. He just RAN with other Dine youth all the way to Standing Rock in ND to join with the Water Protectors there. I am moved and I honor him and all of them.

I love watching the opening of many new conversations about the need to halt the petro-chemical economy and direct our r...
11/05/2016

I love watching the opening of many new conversations about the need to halt the petro-chemical economy and direct our resources in better directions. Mutual Flourishing for Self and Earth is gaining steam.

Reich writes: The U.S. government must permanently halt the Dakota Access Pipeline. Now. The Army Corps of Engineers never did a proper review of its environmental impact, nor did it adequately consulted with the Standing Rock Sioux tribe.

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