By Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, February 2019
First published in Huffington Post
For seven years, from 2010 until 2017, I wrote a series of articles, or blogs, for the Huffington Post. This was for a more general audience than most of my writing. I always referred to their purpose as “breadcrumbs in the snow,” an image of a landscape covered over, frozen, while a trail of breadcrumbs provides both nourishment and a sense of direction in a contemporary bleakness. In this age of consumerism and collective exploitation, when there appears so little real nourishment for the soul, these pieces point to a different landscape. It may be the same earth hidden by the snow, waiting for spring, or it may be a different landscape of the soul, just beyond the borders of our vision.
I belong to a generation that hoped and dreamed of a collective spiritual awakening, only to find an Earth ravaged by pollution, ecocide, and a collective forgetfulness of what is sacred within life. More and more in the busyness of our contemporary life, we are drawn into ceaseless activity that often separates us from the deeper dimension of ourselves. With our smartphones and computer screens, we often remain caught on the surface of our lives amidst the noise and chatter that continually distract us, that stops us from being rooted in our true nature. Unaware we are drowned deeper and deeper in a culture of soulless materialism.
And so these articles, gathered together here as a small booklet, were a small response to this collective forgetfulness, a trail of breadcrumbs hoping to attract the attention of those seeking real nourishment, needing to find their way back to their soul and the real ground of being. I do not know if they reached their objective. But I would like to hope that these words and their stories found a resonance in their readers, pointing to the beauty, wonder and care that belongs to our true nature, and especially to the care for the Earth, and the love that is needed to nourish Her.
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