A Channel for Nature’s Voice
We live in tumultuous times. We stand at a turning point in history wherein all of civilization is balanced on a knife’s edge. On one side, chaos. The compounding issues of ecosystem disruption, social tension, and institutional collapse threaten to rend society apart and our humanity with it. However, this is not the only possibility. Death and transformation are two sides of the same coin.
If we are honest, humble, and brave; we just may fall on the other side of this knife’s edge. On that side lies not chaos, but liberation. We can create a society that is life-affirming, inspiring, meaningful, and vibrant. This, though, is the more difficult task. It requires an honest assessment of the situation at hand and the courage to be transformed by the Truth of it. I have spent many years contemplating our global situation and making myself available to the wisdom of Nature. Nature sees far more clearly than any of us.
I am merely a human, just like you, but I am here to channel the wisdom of Nature’s voice. She calls us home to the place of our true belonging. She invites us into a future where we are vibrant and alive. She knows we can meet her there.
Who am I?
My name is Daniel Rosenberg. I’m a young man who feels deeply called to intimacy with the natural world. For years I’ve been working with teenagers and young adults in wilderness therapy, supporting them to connect with the Earth and to heal their psychological wounds. I have borne witness to many as they experience the healing powers of Nature.
Beyond that, I have made myself an apprentice to the fierce and healing powers of the natural world. I completed the 21-day challenge on Naked & Afraid and was humbled to my core. I have embarked on multiple vision fasts—one through the Animas Valley Institute and one on my own. I’ve spent untold hours alone in the wilderness tending my dreams. I make myself available to the messages Nature sends me on the wind, through the stars, and through the vibrant songs of the birds. I even spent 40 days alone in the wilderness, wandering in complete solitude in order to more clearly hear Nature’s voice.
She has not forsaken me. I have learned much through this apprenticeship and it continues to this day as I continue to soften my heart and open myself to Nature’s messages. I go to the land almost daily, making myself available. The emotions, images, and passions that are given to me through these experiences inspire every article that I write.
I have many flaws and personal biases that creep into my writing, but the core of it always is a deep and abiding love and respect for Nature and a desire to honor Her voice.
What to Expect
My writing, at its best, will carry a mythopoetic quality. I care not to meet you in the mind with purely rational thought. Rather, I wish to enliven your animal body, open your heart, and inspire your imagination. I hope to introduce your whole being to greater possibilities.
As well, I will often be fierce. This is not a newsletter to subscribe to if you want to continue living a comfortable life. Each one of us is living a story that makes us small. Each one of us participates in the systemic destruction of the Earth. While I seek to be sensitive, I also seek to be disruptive. I want to shake the foundations of your comfortable, civilized life. I hope to galvanize you to action and transformation. I want you to surrender your heart to the Earth.
I will channel these intentions the very best I can.
A Request from Me to You
As you read the things I write, I ask you to listen less with your mind and more with your heart. If you try to understand my writing, you may find it too obscure. Though, if you lower your defenses and allow this newsletter to penetrate your heart, you may find a sense of resonance and clarity.
There will doubtless be content here that challenges ideas of yourself, the world, and your daily life. That is by design. It would be natural to have a defense against these writings. This could take the form of aggression, though more often it may be that you find a single thing to grasp onto that satisfies you and leave the rest. If you read an article feeling satisfied and unchanged, it’s possible you didn’t let my words in deep enough.
In the end, I don’t want these writings to live and die on the screen. I want them to enter into you and ultimately change your life. I want the waves from these articles to ultimately transform our world. They can only do that through you. And that’s only if you let them in.
I invite you to surrender your defenses and your preconceptions about yourself and your civilized life. I ask you to surrender to these words and be transformed. Consider it a practice to return to again and again.
So that when the Earth herself calls you, you are able to let Her voice in.
This writing is my most sacred offering. This writing is my prayer.
I hope you can take it in honestly
Together, we can change the world.
If this is your first time here, I invite you to start here.
Enjoy.
