Blog, Earthfire Stories, Retreats and Workshops | June 30, 2010
Earthfire just hosted our first official retreat with animal communicator Penelope Smith. A huge success! Here are some comments from the participants of the workshop.
This was a beautiful experience. I feel changed fundamentally, and I am not sure how or when this occurred. It feels like an unfolding or a softening with each experience being with wild animals. Pimpernel, the coyote, the talkative Mr. Goose, Teton Totem and Mr. Pinkerton and Windwalker all helped me unpack my preconceptions and fears about being present with wild animals, and I feel like this has enriched my life and the way of being in the world in ways I can’t predict. Suffice it to say the experience at Earthfire is still unfolding within me.
Learn from animals. Take care of the earth. We are all one.
Earthfire provides a unique place to gain an understanding of the individual nature of animals and what exceptional spirits they can be.
Everyone at Earthfire, human animal and wild animal, have provided such a beautiful and wonderful
journey! Congratulations and thank you! Even the food was great.
Thanks to everyone who participated and helped put this event on; Penelope Smith for the retreat, Miso Hungry for the food, Anthony Birkholz for filming, Jean Simpson for the animal handling.
Blog | June 25, 2010
We just held a wildly successful workshop with Penelope Smith on Interspecies Telepathic Communication, a controversial topic. The trouble with
telepathic interspecies communication, as per Amanda our web person who is very practical, is that it is hard to believe some of the things people say
the animals say.
She has summed up one of the reasons this work is controversial for so many people – that when we go to the more diffuse, non-verbal, more feeling
levels in our brain, we are vulnerable to confusing our own feelings and wishes with what we are receiving from outside. We do receive things from the
outside all the time. We receive on many channels, only some of them conscious, but we can only hear them if we tune into them. Just like a radio dial -
the signals are here but we can’t hear them unless we tune to that channel. For all intents and purposes they don’t exist for us.What Penelope teaches in
her interspecies communication workshops is to quiet down, go deep, search for and tune oneself to other channels, and begin to learn to make that
very distinction, by feel.
What comes from outside; what comes from inside. I invite her here because it is so important to her to be as ethical and accurate as possible.
She also says the proof is in the pudding – if the animals respond or not in actuality. Do they heal; quiet down, stop the problem behavior.
Is the reading of their physical ailment borne out by a vet. That balance between seeking to explore beyond accepted reality while
keeping ones feet on the ground is very precious and a wonderful thing to strive for as we try to understand the world around us. Though I myself do
not receive telepathic messages that I know of, I do believe that it is possible that some people do and it is a worthwhile avenue to explore with the
animals – and to explore without prejudice the nature of the universe in which we live.
For comments from retreat participants, go to the Earthfire experience
Penelope Smith and Mr. Pinkerton at the workshop
Our interspecies communication workshop with Penelope Smith was wildly successful. The trouble with telepathic interspecies communication, as per Amanda our web person who is very practical, is that it is hard to believe some of the things people say the animals say. She has summed up one of the reasons this work is controversial for so many people – that when we go to the more diffuse, non-verbal, more feeling levels in our brain, we are vulnerable to confusing our own feelings and wishes with what we are receiving from outside. We do receive things from the outside all the time. We receive on many channels, only some of them conscious, but we can only hear them if we tune into them. Just like a radio dial - the signals are here but we can’t hear them unless we tune to that channel. For all intents and purposes they don’t exist for us.What Penelope teaches in her interspecies communication workshops is to quiet down, go deep, search for and tune oneself to other channels, and begin to learn to make that very distinction, by feel.
What comes from outside; what comes from inside. I invite her here because it is so important to her to be as ethical and accurate as possible. She also says the proof is in the pudding – if the animals respond or not in actuality. Do they heal; quiet down, stop the problem behavior. Is the reading of their physical ailment borne out by a vet. That balance between seeking to explore beyond accepted reality while keeping ones feet on the ground is very precious and a wonderful thing to strive for as we try to understand the world around us. Though I myself do not receive telepathic messages that I know of, I do believe that it is possible that some people do and it is a worthwhile avenue to explore with the animals – and to explore without prejudice the nature of the universe in which we live.
For comments from retreat participants, go to the Earthfire experience
Deep Ecology, Ethics & Whole Community, Earthfire Stories, Wellness & Spirtuality | June 25, 2010
Susan, Executive Director of Earthfire Institute, was interviewed by mystic scholar Andrew Harvey on Hay House Radio. Please enjoy this interview and slide show talking about the mission, vision and animals of Earthfire Institute.
Deep Ecology, Ethics & Whole Community | June 23, 2010
A video short capturing the mission of Earthfire Institute.
Earthfire’s Mission in Action by Pat Hager
