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Supporting the Village Membrane: Collaborating with the self-organizing ecosystem

by Theresa | Jul 14, 2024 | Meditations and Inspirations, More on My Books, Recent Posts

“Living organisms are open systems in the sense that they take and excrete energy and matter. In theory, they are open as far as the bounds of the universe; but they are also enclosed within a hierarchy of internal boundaries. As we move in towards the Earth from...

A Shrine for the Village Membrane: activating a nexus for collaboration and care

by Theresa | Jul 7, 2024 | Meditations and Inspirations, More on My Books, Recent Posts

Tending to the village membrane includes establishing a shrine to help you do that. This shrine becomes a focal point which, once activated and worked with, establishes its own nexus of energy for the community at large. In the Dagara tradition from West Africa it is...

The Village Membrane: Caring for the Spirit of a Place

by Theresa | Jun 30, 2024 | Meditations and Inspirations, More on My Books, Recent Posts

Caring for the membranes means also caring for the interiority of the membrane which can also be called the soul, precious interior, inner sanctum. That which is held within the membrane is an individuated interiority which creates the membrane and which the membrane...

Terminus: The Roman Boundary or Membrane God

by Theresa | Aug 21, 2022 | More on My Books, Recent Posts, Strega and Italian-Americana

“A boundary-mark (terminus) was no trifling matter to Roman farmers, whose whole wealth consisted in the produce of their land”(Rose 15). Whoever plowed a boundary mark was in danger. In ancient, pre-Roman belief we find the god “Terminus.” Terminus is both the god...