2013 Eco-Feminist Seminar

We began with lunch

After that we went on a lovely meditation walk around CERES,
which finished at the fire pit.  Here we heard the Rumi poem that
was so central to the content of the seminar.

We moved inside to the rhythm of the beating drum, singing,
“Mother, I feel you under my feet”

Di introduced us to Jan Morgan who shared her insight into the prophetic
tradition.  During the afternoon, with the help of actors, Jan led us through
a very powerful and moving ritual process that offered us a way to attend to
the cry of the Earth.

Janet and Alex helped us to get out of our heads and into our bodies,
as they acted out our cries, and later our radical signs of hope.

Blankets were put over the drum as Jan named the forces that silence
our responses to the ecological crisis and leave us numb, disconnected
and passive

We gave voice to our hopes through singing, while we removed the
blankets from the drum

The prophetic tradition takes cry seriously. It attends to grief but then holds in place an alternative… a radical, subversive alternative…a new form of consciousness and a way to resist and challenge the dominant, oppressing powers.

Jan Morgan’s book “Earth’s Cry:Prophetic ministry in a more-than-human world” is published by Mosaic Press and can be ordered from www.mosaicresources.com.au