#hamid bashir

I wonder: where is the place of a spiritual ecology in a movement that in order to gain traction must be constantly validated through being based in scientific empiricism?... In my galaxy of private epiphanies in Utah’s mountains and deserts, I have found a way to create an interconnected mesh of my heritage & my fierce love of this planet. I think of my heritage as my sharpest needle that I have been handed to both pierce and play on the music of resilience. For me, forward ecological thinking and movement forward takes root in grounding & consolidating all my various identities into one based in empathy, kindness and connectedness; teachings I have found time and time again in The Quran. I tuck away the book & find sleep under a gnarled lattice of pines that go on & on among the unknown reefs of eternity.