Ariadne Systems

What do Nature Spirits say?

From the book of channeled messages from Devas, "To Honor the Earth" by Dorothy Maclean, 1991:

Nothing is worth doing unless it is done with joy; in any action, motives other than love and joy spoil the results. Could you imagine a flower growing as a duty and then sweetening the hearts of its beholders?

~Devas of the Fruit Trees

What kind of challenge would it be to live like that? For every action to be motivated by love and joy? How is that even hard? Isn't that crazy? That that's not the norm? Love and joy are free, they cost nothing, they depend on nothing, they are contingent on nothing.

Animism

Animism (from Latin: anima meaning 'breath, spirit, life') is the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence. Animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork, and in some cases words—as being animated, having agency and free will.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism

Kami

Kami (Japanese: 神) are the deities, divinities, spirits, mythological, spiritual, or natural phenomena that are venerated in the traditional Shinto religion of Japan. Kami can be elements of the landscape, forces of nature, beings and the qualities that these beings express, and/or the spirits of venerated dead people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kami

Deva

A deva in theosophy and the New Age movement refers to any of the spiritual forces or beings behind nature. The origin of the word "deva" comes from Sanskrit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deva_(theosophy)

Spiritual Naturalism

Long before the term spiritual naturalism was coined by Huysmans, there is evidence of the value system of spiritual naturalism in Stoicism: "Virtue consists in a will that is in agreement with Nature". Russell, Bertrand. A History of Western Philosophy. p. 254

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual_naturalism