A guide to co-creating a healing vision for humanity and the Earth through nature-connected shamanic rituals

• Explains the Earth Spirit Dreaming process for rebirthing inherent shamanic abilities with dozens of practices in three categories: Earth-connecting practices, Spirit-connecting practices, and Dream-connecting practices

• Provides experiential exercises to foster interactions with the intelligences and elemental energies of nature and the Spirit realm, realign you with the rhythms and flow of life, and co-create a healing dream for humanity and all of life on our planet

• Contains step-by-step directions for connecting with the light guides of the planet for guidance and healing

Humanity has become profoundly disconnected from the web of life on Earth as well as from nature as a whole. In this practical guide, Elizabeth E. Meacham details her field-tested method of shamanic ecotherapy practices to resolve this centuries-long trend toward disconnection. Through these practices, you will learn how to reconnect to Earth’s systems and help restore health and balance to people and the planet.

Translating transformative ideas from visionary environmental thinkers into engaging shamanic rituals for profound spiritual growth, Meacham offers dozens of practices in three categories: Earth-connecting practices, Spirit-connecting practices, and Dream-connecting practices. Building on one another, the exercises open channels to allow you to directly experience the intelligences of the Earth and Spirit realms, rebirth your inherent shamanic abilities, realign you with the rhythms and flow of life, and reclaim your ancestral power for co-creating a healing dream for our species and all of life on our planetary home. Guiding the reader through a progressively deepening journey toward connection with ourselves, each other, and the consciousness of our biosphere, the practices also invite profound mindfulness, as we work to hold a vision of connection with the Earth and Spirit realms, while choosing consciously to focus on joy, beauty, gratitude, love, and healing.

Illuminating a shamanic awakening within Western culture at the dawn of an ecological age, Earth Spirit Dreaming reveals how the birth of a global consciousness of healing depends upon our commitment to individual and collective spiritual evolution. Calling us back to our shamanic heritage of a living nature spirituality, this manual offers much needed guidance on the essential journey back to an intimate love of Earth.

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