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By Earthfire A special tribute to our very missed friend Major Bear. swfobject.embedSWF("http://www.youtube.com/v/Jq-gjVXBhiQ&rel=0&fs=0&showsearch=0&showinfo=0", "vvq-3601-youtube-1", "425", "344", "10", vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); Read more
By Earthfire This video of Humble Bumble bear is a first ever in the world, in which the sound of an animal is made visible in real time. What you are seeing are the energy patterns within sounds. CymaGlyph - Windwalker's Purr Earthfire is> Read more
By Earthfire Earthfire Institute’s specially-abled grizzly bear, Humble Bumble, soothes himself by sucking on his paw while humming to himself. In this video you hear the sweet sounds as he reassures himself in a world that is scary to him. > Read more
By Earthfire So many of you have asked about Major Bear; sent prayers, suggestions, love. So many of you asked how he was doing. Major Bear left his body three weeks ago. We were with him. It broke our hearts. All of you who> Read more
By Earthfire When an animal is sick we use all possible approaches to healing, because in our experience, wild animals are very receptive to energies. What we did do (actually we started as soon as we saw how poorly he was feeling)> Read more
By Earthfire In the last e-newsletter I wrote about trying to give a bear a pill. Because so many of you asked what happened, here is the next chapter in Major Bear’s journey. It has been difficult, but the good news so> Read more
By Earthfire So we tried to go to give the bear brothers, Major Bear and Huckleberry Bear Bear, antibiotics in marshmallows, their favorite treat – usually they only get healthy foods. As per our last blog it didn’t work. Not even close. Plan> Read more
By Earthfire Huckleberry Bear Bear and Major Bear There comes a time, in the course of human events, when you have to give a bear a pill. Or in this case, eight of them twice a day because unfortunately they don’t come in bear> Read more
By Earthfire On a cold damp day with biting wind, we decided it was time to put the bears to bed for the winter. They were all substantially plump, with Major Bear winning the substantiality prize. His belly was almost touching the> Read more
By Earthfire First, let it be known that the bears here at Earthfire eat extremely healthy food — buckets and buckets of fresh fruits and vegetables and a bit of high grade dog food to be sure all bases are covered. But> Read more
By Earthfire All winter we worried about Teton Totem and his severe back problem. How would he be? Would the long winter sleep aggravate it? What do we do with a nearly paralyzed 1000 pound grizzly bear? We made him a special bed> Read more
By Earthfire He was found at a roadside zoo that was closing down, just a few weeks old. It was clear even then that he was a differently-abled bear. As we watched him play, sweetly, innocently, not too coordinated, not too quick on> Read more
By Earthfire Teton Totem, the grizzly bear, is recovering from a back injury and a bad bout of arthritis. How he got injured and how he is healing is a long and interesting story for another time. Suffice it to say that> Read more
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Teton’s NestTeton Totem was ecstatic in grizzly bear terms. The weather had turned cold and we had just brought him piles of sweet smelling hay to line his den. His eyes held a look of intense excitement. Ever so carefully, like…
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Earthfire’s Mission in Action by Pat HagerPat Hager used his experience at Earthfire retreat as a stepping stone for volunteering in his area, helping preserve wildlife corridors. A participant at the Connecting with Wildlife Heart to Heart retreat he wrote:
My son Patrick & I attended the June retreat. …
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The Challenge of Meditating with WolvesSometimes when people call us in the morning they comment we seem rushed. This is our current early morning schedule, which starts about 7 am – we are at the moment a two-wolf two-dog cabin.
Every winter Wamaka the wolf loses the…
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