An Array of Utopian Flowers
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An Environmental Advocate’s Response to ‘Planet of the Humans’
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Green Banking: Toward A Regenerative Economy
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THE BOTTLE SCAM: Land, Water, and Indigenous Rights – Plastic Plague Pt. 5
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THROWAWAY SOCIETY: Economics & Inequity of (Plastic) Consumption – Plastic Plague Pt 4
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The BirdHouse: Reconnecting People & Place through Arts & Ecology
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Virgin Mary Archive
German Composer’s Paean to a Healing Work of Renaissance Art
Posted on March 18, 2015 | 1 CommentOne of the 20th Century's most influential composers, Paul Hindemith created the neo-classical-folk-inspired symphony Mathis der Maler, based on the life of the mysterious 16th Century painter Matthias Grunewald, whose masterpiece associated Saint Anthony and the Virgin Mary with the miraculous cure of the epidemic skin disease called St. Anthony's Fire.
Haitian Vodou: Summoning the Spirits
Posted on April 30, 2013 | No CommentsLike several West African religions, Vodouisants believe in a supreme being called Bondyè, from bon "good" + dyè "God." Because Bondyè is unreachable, Vodouisants aim their prayers to lesser entities, the spirits known as Lwa (Loa), contacted and served through possession. In turn, the Lwa confer material blessings, physical well-being, protection, abundance.
All Souls Day Procession Honors the Ancestors in Antigua, Guatemala
Posted on November 5, 2012 | 2 CommentsIn Guatemala, a procession through the cobblestone streets of the former capital, Antigua, marks the end of the Day of the Dead, All Saints and All Souls.
Tonantzin Transforms into Our Lady of Guadalupe
Posted on December 17, 2011 | 1 CommentPart II of the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe, part of the Spanish colonial appropriation of the Aztec Earth Mother Tonantzin: The future St. Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin explained to the Bishop of Mexico City how the Virgin appeared to request a temple be built at Tepeyac in her honor.
Virgin of Guadalupe: The Apparitions of An Aztec Goddess
Posted on December 14, 2011 | 1 CommentA Mexican Indian Catholic convert experiences visions of an obscure Aztec goddess, Tonantzin, challenging his faith. Thereafter the goddess becomes associated with the Virgin Mary in post-Spanish-conquest church.
To Erzulie of the Seductive Summoning Sea
Posted on July 30, 2011 | No CommentsHere we follow poet Lenelle N. Moise's surreal submergence into her mother’s passion for water, the sea, vodoun. Imagery, juxtapositions, fluidity, they haunt this reverie, influenced by unseen forces, diaspora and the Haitian sea goddess Erzulie.
Haitian Healing Pilgrimage: Saut-d’Eau Waterfall
Posted on July 16, 2011 | 3 CommentsFor more than a century now, Haitians have trekked to the picturesque grove where, legend has it, the Virgin Mary - or Erzuli Dantor - appeared in the middle of the 19th century on a palm tree near the 100-foot waterfall and began healing the sick.
