In this classic work, Australian environmental activist John Seed pioneers ‘Council of All Beings’ workshops, “a form which permits us to experience consciously both the pain and the power of our interconnectedness with all life.” In an invocation, Seed calls “...upon the power which sustains the planets in their orbits, that wheels our Milky Way in its 200 million year spiral, to imbue our personalities and our relationships with harmony, endurance, and joy. Fill us with a sense of immense time so that our brief, flickering lives may truly reflect the work of vast ages past and also the millions of years of evolution whose potential lies in our trembling hands...” ( )