Conference on Celtic Spirituality, Ecology, and Participative Consciousness.

On September 13-15, a group of us met in Munising, MI for a conference that urged a transformative change in consciousness.

We are concerned that our current individual and systemic western consciousness is disembodied and ill. We believe that this process started several thousand years ago in the late Paleolithic. We are not trying to turn back the clock to the Stone Age. But we do know that a change in consciousness must begin if our planet and we are to survive.

What we have lost is participative consciousness, which understands that our lives are profoundly related to the physical, mental and spiritual aspects of all of creation. Another way of putting this is that we are completely relational beings. Reconnection with all of creation as sacred and responsive and alive is our great task in the early 21^st century.

We have living guides to help us such as Celtic Spirituality, Native American Spirituality and post-modern science. During this conference we examined and integrated the profound gifts of these friends.