Chances are you’ve never heard of David Gross, a 50-year-old white male who lives in California and works as a technical writer for software engineers. He has no claim to fame and isn’t seeking any. I came across him half-a-dozen years ago by way of his website, “The Picket Line,” on which is posted his essay (reprinted here): The One-Man Revolution (The Only One That’s Coming). Although written to encourage […]
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Stories to tend the soul of the world | An interview with Sharon Blackie
Dr. Sharon Blackie is an international teacher and renowned writer whose work weaves together psychology, mythology, and ecology to reveal how our cultural myths have led us to the individual and collective social and environmental problems we face today and how reconnection with our more ancient mythology would better serve our relationship with the Earth, our souls, and the cosmos. With a Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience from the University of […]
People of the caribou | An interview with Sarah James
Sarah Agnes James is a Neets’aii Gwich’in elder from above the Arctic Circle in the great Alaskan interior. Hers are the people of the caribou and she sings the caribou welcome song to protect their way of life. Her parents and grandparents taught her to protect “the sacred place where all life begins,” which is Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit. She grew up on the land in the far north and […]
Standing between heaven and Earth | An interview with Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook
Loretta Afraid of Bear Cook is Oglala Lakota and describes her purpose as: “living by her women teachers’ sacred instructions: wahwoptetusni (to be uniquely steadfast), shakica (to be physically strong and beautiful), and wagluhtapi (to offer sacred food in ceremony).” For 30 years she has participated in the Sun Dance, her people’s annual four-day ceremony of intensive prayer through fasting and ritualized dance. Because her family was one of the […]
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