Philosophy

  • Mystic Wisdom

    Mystic wisdom is said to connect us with the infinite wonders and mysteries of existence. For Heather, it has offered a doorway into her bone-knowing, and a path of reverent relationship with spirit and earth.

    As she has deepened into her exploration of mystic wonders, the trees and bones have brought their poetry through her. The well, compassionate, and wise ancestors have revealed themselves to guide her voice and to sing with her.

    There is a word for those who commune in the way that she does; these people walk an old path, sometimes known as the path of the Awenydd, the Taibhsear, and the Bean Feasa.

  • Reverent Ecology

    Known inherently to traditional cultures who live/d in harmony with the natural world, ‘deep ecology’ is a term used to describe those who understand the dynamic unity of reality, that is the oneness of all life.

    As an animist who supported her ‘unity knowing’ with academic studies in environmental law and environmental science, she has advised and spoken extensively for the last 25 years on the topic.

    The story that flows through her weaves the intersections, reflections, and intimate inseparability of the human species with all others; in hopes that through the reverent recognition of our deep oneness that life-giving, life-affirming, ecologically respectful choices can be made, birthing spiritual and ecological resurrections by both the individual and as such, the collective.

    She calls this reverent ecology.

  • The Wise Woman Tradition

    Heather walks the path of the wise woman tradition, a path of integrity, steeped in intuition, connection, reverence, and remembering.

    Beautifully articulated by Susun Weed,

    “The Wise Woman Tradition is the oldest tradition of healing known on our planet, yet one that is rarely identified, rarely written or talked about.

    A woman-centered tradition of self-love, respectful of the earth and all her creatures, the Wise Woman Tradition tells us that compassion, simple ritual and common herbs heal the whole person and maintain health/wholeness/holiness.”

  • Code of practice

    In honor of the ancestors, in service of the descendants, in reverence for the Earth, Heather seeks to:

    1. Honor the great inter-connectivity of all things.

    2. Reverently acknowledge that all things are inspirited be they animal, mineral, plant, or element.

    3. Apprentice to the radiant wisdom of the Earth and the sacred voice of Spirit.

    4. Listen to the wisdom of the human body as a sacred vessel and a partner to be cherished as we experience this human life.

    5. Walk the Path of Integrity - paved with empathy it is a sovereign path of authenticity and self ownership, wrapped in honor that seeks to heal and never harm.

    6. Have courage.

    7. Be a living model for care, compassion, and authentic love.

Mindful

Every day
I see or hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It was what I was born for –
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world –
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant –
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
but grow wise
with such teachings
as these –
the untrimmable light
of the world,
the ocean’s shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?

— Mary Oliver