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Water is my Symbol
In response to the pilgrimage, human psyche – reflective of a
Emma presented “Water is my universal human primordial
Symbol” as a paper and experiential reverence for nature if you will. Our
practice at The Tributaries Project collective relationship to water is
Colloquium (Nov 20). She writes: not only one of nourishment,
“The throbbing gush of a waterfall; however. We also relate to water
the rhythmic turn of the tides; the problematically as a collective. As
still calm and serenity of a river witnessed on the pilgrimage in the
reflecting the dusk infused sky…. overloaded waste water systems,
Many, sailors, scribes, poets and the pollution of rivers, estuaries and
artists have attested to the feeling oceans etc., the direct experience of
of wellness and peace that comes our collective impact serves to
over them when they’re in, or near, remind us that our relationship to
bodies of water. ‘Blue Mind’ science water is also symbolic of our wider
confirms this effect. It may be relationship to nature. Such a
suggested that we all know standpoint may be broadened
intuitively that water is deeply further to indicate something of the
nourishing and healing to the nature of the relationships we hold
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