How Did We Get Here?

In July this year, I helped run a five-day retreat at Campfire In The Heart near Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia. The retreat, ‘Christ as Country: Creation Infused With Grace’, looked at Australian First Nations values and Western/Colonial values, as well as Christian Celtic and contemplative ways of life, as an answer to the current multi-crisis of ecology, economy, and politics. What follows is the text from one teaching session. Each session on the retreat began with a period of meditation.

How Meditation Regulates Our Feelings So That We Might Hope

Our tradition tells us that meditation purifies the heart of these dragons, lions, and poisonous beats: this fear, anxiety, anger, grief, and the hopelessness that can result.

Yindyamarra (Part 4): The Arrival of Ego-Dominance

Many see the soulful way of Australia’s First Nations peoples as a prophetic call to the rest of us to live our own lives more soulfully and less egoically. This is also the call at the heart of Christianity.

Yindyamarra (Part 3): Communing With Country

The very first day I sat on the bank, with my back against a River Oak, I saw a Platypus. It surfaced, swam around for a moment or two, before diving out of sight. Country was saying hello. I felt very welcome.

Meditation As Gentle Ignorance (Part 2)

We are committed to being divinised into a unique Love-expression on Earth. Noticing, observing, attending to anything else but the mantra is counter to this divinising pilgrimage as we meditate.