This ebook is about attunement — our largely untapped capacity for receptivity and refined intuition. It begins with a series of letters that introduce readers to the Findhorn Community in Scotland and my experience of learning the practice of attunement there. These letters offer poetry writing prompts and exercises to heighten awareness of the natural world. They include descriptions of several groundbreaking regenerative approaches to climate change mitigation I’ve supported during the past decade.
The ebook format makes it possible to include audio files of my performances of songs I’ve written, along with their lyrics. (Editor’s Note: sadly our flipbook feature doesn’t give the links to the audio files – so we have put them underneath)
Attunements for the Earth also features accounts of some of my experiences of attunement, and a selection of my poems for our planet.
The ebook is a collaborative work that includes a pioneering scientific study regarding the role of intuition in informing climate science, initiated by me and conducted and written by neuroscientist and parapsychologist Julia Mossbridge, PhD. It’s brightened throughout by Leslie Oelsner’s nature photographs and works by the late Kansas landscape artist Robert Sudlow.
Attunements for the Earth was written (and sung!) to inspire readers to practice their own attunements and step forward into more conscious relationships with the sentient energies of Nature. Such relationships can contribute to environmental harmony right now, and may help downscale our climatic predicament in days to come.
Please Touch the Earth with Love,
Geoffrey Oelsner
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Links to songs in the eBook – all songs performed by Geoff Oelsner unless stated otherwise, title of the album listed where available.
link on page 35: Drawdown from album 8 11 21
link on page 55: Bio Char Song from album 8 11 21
link on page 200: Morning Branches from album Morning Branches
link on page 202: The Sacred Hoop from album Acoustic
link on page 205: “Tesuque Pueblo” from Ordinary Mystery by Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 209: Cherokee Trail Of Tears from album Ordinary Mystery Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 212: The Listener from album Ordinary Mystery Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 213: Take Me To Your Side from album Ordinary Mystery Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 214: Ordinary Mystery from album Ordinary Mystery Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 216: International Anthem from album Morning Branches
link on page 217: Rumi from album Morning Branches
link on page 220: West Coast Farewell from album Ordinary Mystery Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 221: Piney Green River from album Ordinary Mystery Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 222: Buffalo River Hymn
link on page 224: Dordogne River Hymn from album Ordinary Mystery Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 227: No Mind Left Behind
link on page 228: First Person from album 8 4 21
link on page 229: From A Motel 6 from album Ordinary Mystery Geoff Oelsner With Family And Friends
link on page 230: Carbon Fee and Dividend Song w Banjo
link on page 232: Winter Hymn at Tara from album 8 4 21
link on page 233: Winter Night Medicine from album 8 4 21
Born Kansas City, 1949. Began writing poetry and songs and meditating age 14. Oberlin College and Aberdeen University, where I discovered Findhorn and began a lifelong journey of the Spirit.
Review by David Spangler: 5 out of 5 stars A deeply needed book. Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2023 at a time when the earth is burning, flooding, storming, and upending our sense of normality, Geoff’s book offers a chance to step back, step in, and drop down into calm and attunement to the living spirit of the world. There we find opportunities of partnership and insight that can allow us to meet this historical moment with strength and creativity rather than with despair and helplessness. Geoff’s songs, poems, reports, and wisdom speak to the power and love within us to make a difference, discovering within ourselves the song of the whole earth. This is a book to treasure.