Elizabeth E. Meacham, Ph.D., is an environmental philosopher, teacher, healer, spiritual mentor, and musician. She is the founder and codirector of the Lake Erie Institute for Holistic Environmental Education. Her workshops and training courses offer initiatory experiences that reflect her long-term engagement as a student of the Earth and Cosmos. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
Foreword by Christopher M. Bache
Part 1: Introduction
1. Introduction: Waking Up to Earth
From Earth-Connection to Earth-Care
Slowing Down
Earth Spirit Dreaming: Three Steps for Re-Visioning Our Planetary Stories
2. How to Use This Book: Growing the Gifts of Ecological Consciousness
Working with This book
Daily Practice of Rituals
A Method for Discovering Magic
Prepare, Prepare, Prepare
Coming Home
3. Everything Is Connected: A Brief Introduction to Visionary Environmental
Thought
A Shifting Sense of Self: From Separation to Care and Connection
The Participatory Worldview
From Environmental Theory to Earth-Connecting Practices
Part 2: Earth-Connecting Practices
4. Earth-Connecting: The First Step of Earth Spirit Dreaming Transforming
Sustenance
Developing Earth-Connected Consciousness
5. Coming to Our Senses: Slowing Down, Tuning In, Waking Up
Doing Nothing Cultivating Boredom
6. Cultivating Ecomindfulness: Increasing Our Conscious Connection with
Nature
Ecomindfulness Practices
7. Returning to the Land: Connecting with the Rhythms and Cycles of Nature
My Special Place: The Chagrin River
8. Nature Art Rituals: Earth-Connecting through Creativity
Nature Art Rituals in Sacred Places
Part 3: Spirit-Connecting Practices
9. Spirit-Connecting: Working with Light and Vibrational Reality
Portals to Guides in Vibrational Reality Incorporating Revelation into the
“Everyday”
Raising Vibrations: A Full-Time Job
10. Sacred Space and Preparation for Working with Light
How to Know Vibrational Reality
11. Opening to Vibrational Reality
12. Karmic Eddies: Personal Vibrational Healing
Part 4: Dream-Connecting Practices
13. Dream-Connecting: Creating New Stories in Vibrational Reality
Dreaming as Co-Creation
Vibrational Experience in Western Cultures
Magic, Imagination, and the Quantum Self
River Light
14. Sacred Rituals: Pathways to Re-Dreaming the World
Western Earth-Honoring Sacraments
Creating Rituals for Earth Spirit Dreaming
15. Dreaming with Mandalas: Journeying with Sacred Circles
Reading the Oracle
16. Dancing with the Ancestors: Cultivating Shamanic Experience
Why Do We Say Shaman?
Trance States for Extrasensory Perception
Ask for Help from Your Spirit Guides
Conclusion: Re-Visioning the World One Dream at a Time
We Are the Storytellers
Changing Our Stories
Following Love - Re-Visioning Earth
List of Exercises
Reference
Notes
Selected Reading
Acknowledgments
About the Author
