In this interview I spoke with Aterah Nusrat about her research aimed at deepening our understanding of the relationship between spirituality, health and well-being, and how those domains also relate to planetary health and well-being. Nusrat is clear that until we shift into a mindset that recognizes our true unity with the natural world we will not become the true stewards of life on Earth that we need to be.
In this interview I had the pleasure to speak with my dear friend Mary Adams about her involvement with The Extinction Rebellion and how she sees her current work as an activist as a natural extension of her dedicated spiritual life.
Over the last two years Lama Rod has been an inspiration to my practice, so I was overjoyed when he agreed to sit down with me and discuss his work. Our conversation starts with an introduction to his early activism, and his transition into the world of Tibetan Buddhism. We continue on to discuss reframing activism in the context of love, and how we can continue to center ancestral healing within the structural forms of violence we face today.
I am a spiritual activist. My form of activism is perhaps different from what the word may imply, but certainly no less effective. I like to call it “Spiritual Presence” or “Spiritual Companionship” and my life path, inner attitudes, choices and call to be a spiritual guide, comes from a deep inner silence and solitude.
Walking down the street one day in 2006 a stranger suddenly ran across the road yelling at me to stop. In her hand she was waving a $50 bank note and strongly insisted that I take it. That very same evening, eating out at a local restaurant with my husband, another stranger came over to our table brandishing a check book and asked who she should make her $100 check payable to. Wow I thought, the power of hair… or should I say, wow the power of no hair…
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When I was thinking about spiritual activism the work of Anna Halprin, born in 1920, came to mind. She was a dancer and pioneer with a revolutionary spirit to challenge any rigid boundaries – first and foremost – the rigid boundaries that were, in her times, around dance.
