To be rooted is perhaps the most important
and least recognized need of the human soul.
It is one of the hardest to define.
- simone weil
Let’s get Post APOCALYPTIC
Come to your senses
Doctrine and beliefs
Birds, Beasts and Flowers Fellowship believes that the natural world is interconnected and holds a sacred balance deserving of respect and reverence.
Freedom of Belief and Practice
BB&FF is a fellowship seeking to practice a godless wisdom through study, ritual, truth, responsibility, logic and sense guided by pagan naturalist traditions, philosophers and artists while being grounded in the here and now.
Ancestral and Mythological Reverence
We acknowledge the wisdom of ancestors and draw from historical traditions while evolving a living tradition.
Community and Ethical Living
We uphold the values of integrity, honor, and responsibility.
We believe: Do No Harm, Take No Shit.
The goal is to build honesty community and a protective network..
Rituals and Spiritual Practices
We engage in sacred rites that honor the elements, natural cycles, personal and communal thresholds. These include ceremonies for the solstices and equinoxes, rituals, ancestral veneration, all forms of art and storytelling.
Spiritual Growth through Connection
We seek enlightenment, dignity, and honesty by engaging in study, ritual, and human responsiblity.
The Cycle of Life and Renewal
We mark the cycle of the year, celebrating seasonal festivals and transitions as sacred markers of transformation, renewal, and balance.
This is the beginning of BBFF, an entity dedicated to the continuous pursuit of human knowledge and dignity.
You can only go up from here
Sample of Programming
ATTENBOROUGH Ark Thinking/crying out loud/ how to create a new world.
BrainWash: Notes on Music (gospel)
How it feels to be Run over: Notes on art and other human records
Fuzzouts: sacred movement to honor natural and ancestral methods to get the fuzz out, in order to keep ourselves healthy.
Start up
More programming:
Pervious: Notes on interconnectedness
Walks, derives, excursions: Animations
Retreats: Movement in space among others.
what have you done?A look at history.
Overall become a working entity.
Form a well-rounded supportive board and forge a way.
New Ground
Sacred Grove/Safe Zones
(aka 3/4 House )
inspired by
Notre-Dame du Haut, pilgrimage chapel at Ronchomp. a safe zone.
the beginning of the YMCA. a group of 11 friends worked together to help create housing and other key social services during the industrial revolution.
Housing Works, NYC for banding together to solve a problem. For creating a local community industry. I know Housing works because I would rest at the bookshop/coffeeshop while visiting NYC to see all the art shows.
More details via the Attenborough Ark. An illustrated dream of what could be…
(Safe (1995 Todd haynes movie) is on the mood Board. But more about overall safety and well-being than sickness…)
Solid Ground
safety network
As a church, each community can have one, In its own way. Rural, sub and urban would focus on its own needs and issues.