essay
by STARHAWK
“We the indigenous are not part of yesterday; we are part of tomorrow.” — Subcommandante Marcos
For thirty years and more, I’ve been walking that edge where the spiritual meets the political. For me, the two have always been integrated. My spirituality is rooted in the experience of the Earth as a living, conscious being, and names this world, nature, human life, sexuality, and culture as sacred.
And so I feel compelled to take action to protect the Earth and to work for a world in which human freedom and creativity can flourish. The edge where two systems meet can be a place of great fertility in nature. But edges and borders can also be sites of enormous conflict. Spirituality can bring life and vibrancy and imagination into activism — but the mixture of religion and politics can also fuel the most extreme and destructive…