@mikebell
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, The Shaman's Tale 7 years, 1 month ago
This is a story for young people about shamans, how they relate to the Earth and provide help for their local communities.
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Re-framing for Climate Change 7 years, 1 month ago
Re-framing is the way we change how we see the world and give it meaning. Re-framing is essential if we are to realistically deal with Climate Change
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Mike Bell posted a new activity comment 7 years, 2 months ago
This article by Duane Elgin is excellent and very much needed in a climate changing world. We need a new context for understanding what is happening to Earth and what we can do about it. This article helps give us that context.
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Our Personal Exodus 7 years, 2 months ago
This blog uses the original exodus event as a model
for the exodus from our current world into the climate change world that is quickly closing in upon us.
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Caring for the Lifeboat 7 years, 3 months ago
This blog deals with the need to care for Earth
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Our Personal Exodus 7 years, 4 months ago
Using the biblical Exodus as a theme this article discusses our personal exodus into the climate changing Anthropocene world
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I loved the simplicity and the way this very deep reality of exodus and its meaning in our lives was expressed. I have shared it with a group of women who call themselves Elderberries since we are elders and try to live out the teachings of Thomas Berry. Nice to meet a fellow traveller.
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Climate Change Course for Teens 7 years, 4 months ago
Climate Change is the most serious problem facing our future and Earth’s future. The year 2030 is the time by which we have had to change the course of things. This is an imaginary example of a teacher giving a […]
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, The Problem With Human Laws and Climate Change 8 years, 7 months ago
Many folks believe that the solution to dealing with climate change is to pass better environmental laws. But a bit of reflection will indicate that human laws are not designed to protect the environment. They […]
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Learning from Nature's laws and Lores 8 years, 9 months ago
For many years the Gaia Foundation in London has been working with indigenous groups around the world, helping them maintain and develop their Earth-based cultures. The foundation has also been a champion of […]
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, RESILIENCE 8 years, 9 months ago
I wrote this Chronicle about Resilience a few weeks ago. But, as I’m now posting it, the Chronicle seems especially relevant. Hurricane Harvey is decimating Houston and other parts of Texas. Our media are […]
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Beyond Stewardship 8 years, 10 months ago
With the creation of Earth Day in the middle of the last century most environmental groups adopted the concept of Environmental Stewardship. It became their mission and purpose and we are indebted to them. But […]
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Thank you Mike for posting this. I appreciate your play on words…made possible through an integral framework and understanding of being in a bound relationship…no divorce or squiggling out of it.
I also have not found the term “Stewardship” sufficient for compassionate action. Stewardship imply’s yet another identity to settle into…another ‘to do ‘ label.
An identity based on relationship implies a 24/7 moment by moment demand for discernment …..’how do I relate with……….” whatever is before us in the here and now. Indigenous mindfullness at its best.Thank you.
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Mike Bell commented on the post, Chasing Ice 8 years, 10 months ago
Jim,
Thanks for posting this. It is a spectacular film. After Robert Redford watched the screening of this film at his Sundance Festival he said, “You’ve never seen anything like this before.” The rate of ice dissolution in the Arctic and Antarctic is shocking. The recent ice separation from Larsen C ice field in Antarctica has created a tri…[Read more] -
Mike Bell wrote a new post, Thomas Berry and an Earth Spirituality Out on the Edge 8 years, 11 months ago
Most mainline Christian Churches are losing members, especially among the young. There is a perception that the churches are no longer relevant in the modern world. At the same time there is a search for more […]
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Mike Bell commented on the post, The Study of All Existence: Big History, Universal Studies and the Global Conjunction 8 years, 11 months ago
This is an excellent and comprehensive study of Big History. I was wondering if there have been any insights from quantum physics. Has the development of Big History been influenced by concepts of a conscious universe? Perhaps such insights have been included in the works of astrophysicists or Teilhard .
Thanks for this.
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, About Our Relationship with Earth 9 years ago
If we want to create a community climate change culture we need to develop a different way of relating to Earth. We can gain some insights from indigenous cultures—a sense that we are one with nature. But most o […]
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Fantastic Mike! Thanks. So look forward to reading this after the International Jesuit Congress, about to start. Several of us are in Cleveland, Ohio for the conference and giving programs.
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, A Disturbance in the Force 9 years ago
The United States is the world’s major polluter, The decision by Donald Trump to take the United States out of COP 21 has profound implications for climate change. But this is not only an American issue, it i […]
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Thank you so much for posting this Mike! I will post an article about cities and states within the US that are going forward with the Paris Accord despite Trump’s move to pull us out.
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, A Community Climate Change Vision 9 years, 1 month ago
In our beautiful Comox Valley in the middle of Vancouver Island on Canada’s west coast there are many citizen groups working on environmental projects and other projects of great benefit to our community. But w […]
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, About A Community Climate Change Culture #3 9 years, 2 months ago
Climate Change is changing everything including our concept of culture. In a global world with instant communications we need a new way of understanding culture. This is especially true when we are trying to […]
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Comox Valley Climate Change Chronicles 2—About Context 9 years, 2 months ago
This second Comox Valley Climate Change Chronicle. is about context. The significance of a Deep Time Perspective is that it creates a new context or way of understanding Earth and our role in it. We need this […]
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Mike Bell wrote a new post, Comox Valley Climate Change Chronicles 9 years, 3 months ago
There is lots of scientific information about climate change, but very little about how to deal with it at the community and neighbourhood level. This article, subtitled “Chronicles”, is the first of a number of […]
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Such an important message. Thank you Mike!!
The shamanic voice seems to be appearing more and more as we enter deeper into this climate crisis. I feel as though I am listing for the way forward. Thank you for this posting this piece, Mike.
Great job Mike! Would love to read more about the shamanic practices that people of all ages (and especially the young) can learn to help develop a deeper and more intimate bond with the Natural world.