Jesse Wolf Hardin
Jesse Wolf Hardin
Jesse Wolf Hardin
is a Contemporary Spiritual Teacher, Environmental
Educator & Storyteller
JESSE WOLF HARDIN (once known as Lone Wolf Circles) is an acclaimed presenter, and the author of numerous books
including Full Circle: A Song of Earthen Spirituality (Llewellyn, ‘91) and
Kindred Spirits (SwanRaven, 2000). His two
decades worth of public appearances and published works have helped define “Deep Ecology” in this country, while
influencing the formation of a new ecological ethic. Wolf is well known among the environmental, communitarian, pagan and
social activist communities, and is in the process of broadening his message to reach the widest possible audience. His
hundreds of magazine articles have united the principals primal mindfulness, Earthen Spirituality and personal activism like no
one before, in publications like Talking Leaves, EarthLight, Green Egg and Sowell
Review. Most of each year Wolf is home
on his enchanted New Mexico wildlife sanctuary,
instructing students and resident interns in wilderness restoration and
Earth-centered spiritual practice.
Wolf teaches that “all psychological, social and environmental imbalance is the result of our imagined, cultivated sense of
separation from the living, breathing world.” He calls on our subdued animal instincts and cellular memories, for the purpose
of reintegration and “right living.” His lessons combine modern Gaian theory with ancient pan-racial wisdom, personal stories
of wilderness experience and environmental activism with scientific fact. He alternates between deep drama and challenging
truths, and incredibly humorous tales used to illustrate a particular point.
Presentation titles range from “Earthen Spirituality,” “Reinhabitation & Reenchantment,” “Animal & Plant Teachers,” “The
Spiritual Heart of The Environmental Movement,” “Earth Centered Education,” and “Deepening Sense of Place”— to the
practical “Experience & Ethics of Wildlands Restoration.” In each, Wolf advocates a personal awakening and healing
(“whole-ing”): a deepening of conscious relationship with the Earth we’re an inextricable part and member of. His anecdotal
stories meld human psychology and ecological realities, primal mind and personal re-wilding, creature sentience and spiritual
connectedness, activism and sense of place, wilderness rehabilitation and the “reinhabiting of our sensate bodies, our highest
purpose, and our immediate bioregion.... in vital present time.” He offers us “a new model for teaching and being, in reciprocal
relationship with the instructive natural world.” Audiences are informed and animated by his dance of words. We’re provoked
not only to think more, but to feel more. We come away ready to embrace and embody our authentic beings, empowered to
fulfill our most meaningful purpose.
“And if we are very quiet, Pan comes out of hiding & teaches us the will of the land.” -Bill Devall (coauthor of Deep Ecology)
Participants inevitably describe themselves as feeling changed: engaged, ready to take responsibility for their effects of the
planet, anxious to experience their lives in a more intense way. JESSE WOLF HARDIN raises the energy level of any venue
he’s a part of, with most of his presentations resulting in standing, howling ovations! Because of this he makes an ideal
“wrap-up” or “keynote” speaker. Wolf inspires us to act in positive, proactive ways— to cherish, improve and celebrate the
world within and around us.
Jesse Wolf Hardin
offers: “A surprising experience— archaic, fresh, future, wild, refined, all at once.”
-Gary Snyder (author of The Practice of Wild)
“I’ve heard Wolf speak many times over the past decade, and he never fails to inspire, surprise, enlighten, and utterly
fascinate his audience with his passionate insights, his raucous anecdotes, and his personal knowledge of environmental issues
acquired thought years of grassroots activism.” -Christopher Manes (author of Green Rage)
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What's being said about Kindred Spirits |
| Kindred Spirits: Sacred Earth Wisdom
By Jesse Wolf Hardin Foreword by Ralph Metzner “In Kindred Spirits Wolf powerfully brings us into the presence of our animal elders, reawakening us to the lessons they have to teach us in the recovery of our own instincts and aliveness. This is a fiery, passionate and important book.” -Paul Winter The Paul Winter Consort Kindred Spirits offers stories of our plant and animal teachers, as well as practices for our own reconnection with self, Earth and Spirit. This is a book that teaches about medicine wheels, quests, sense of place, and Gaian spirituality in a way that draws "not so much ancient tradition, as from the same sacred source— inspirited, informative nature— that our ancestors once drew from." “A surprising experience; archaic, fresh, future, wild, refined, all at once. Which should be no surprise— that ‘s how the real world is— my respects to Wolf .” -Gary Snyder Pulitzer Prize-winning author and poet Wolf's twenty-something illustrations add to the power and beauty of the text, describing an enchanted world of seamless oneness, a land of miracles, a place where fairy tales really do come true. “What a wonderful experience it is to be taken back into the magical earth through the words of Jesse Wolf Hardin! In Kindred Spirits the earth lives and shimmers. We are enveloped in the feeling-world of Bear, Snake, Salmon, Wolf, Deer-- and through them we sense remnants of our own original, authentic, wild selves. We are fully inspired to return to the place where we abandoned our soul so long ago, ready to recover all the lost parts. This! This is where we must go for the healing of our own soul, and the soul of the World...” -Sedonia Cahill author, The Ceremonial Circle (HarperFrisco)
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For Campus, Church or Conference Bookings Contact:
The Earthen Spirituality Project
Box 516, Reserve, NM 87830
earthway@concentric.net
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