Summary
This work works best when read like a book – from start to finish.
For efficient digestion, bite size pieces might serve better than gulping.
Today’s dominant mantra is ‘I don’t have time.’ So, if this is you, this Summary offers word counts for each chapter and my own read times. I hope this is helpful.
1) A Collaboration 200 words. Read time 2 minutes.
A collaboration with an elderly oak tree at the core of this work. Connection to nature.
2) Summary. 578 words Read time 4 minutes
3) My Story. 3822 words Read time 15 minutes.
The root of this work. Places where I grew up. Being an introvert. Relationship with nature. About my grandparents. Education. The silence and lies about Australian colonisation. Finding myself in Ireland. The myth of the Green Isle. Taking action for trees. Protecting cows and the land. The rising up of this work.
4) Reader’s Introduction 1193 words. Read time 7 minutes.
What this work is not. The purpose of Google definitions. Excerpt from Seamus Heaney’s last speech. Turning a debt into a treasury. Making useful maps.
5) Definition of Revelationary 1423 words. Read time 8 minutes.
The main revelation that this work hinges on: The connection between the anthropocene and anthropocentric. Looking at societal conditioning and how it shapes our unconscious daily habits. Rules of a Revelationary for Nature.
6) Burnam Burnam 1283 words. Read time 5 minutes.
An Indigenous activist takes possession of England in 1988. His declaration speaks of the brutality and ignorance of colonisation in Australia, graphically exposing the roots of the capitalist system. Highlights similar characteristics found in today’s developed countries, including Ireland.
7) Let’s Look at Capitalism 2430 words Read time 19 minutes.
Observes with the reader how the innumerable crises in our society and across the world stem from a system of governance that was designed by a small minority of men in power. Having no collaboration with or regard to the laws of nature, the bottom line is simply to make profit for private companies.
There are no guidelines as to how we might go about creating a peaceful society and no manual to help us curtail the beast of industrial capitalism now unleashed across the world.
8) All Change Now 1984 words Read time 20 minutes
This chapter is an extra slow read requiring a relaxed and active mind. Explores what change is. The great difference in meaning between the verb and the noun. Quotes from great thinker J. Krishnamurti on how pre-knowledge or chosen direction does not lead to change. Looks at the exquisite nature of reciprocity that sustains balance of the Earth and how accumulated knowledge is of no benefit towards Earth repair action.
9, 10, 11, 12) Four main guidelines to be an effective Revelationary for Nature. Practical and simple ways each person can practice to take back their freedom and live more naturally and to their own values, even during this time of mass extinction and global chaos. Shows how we ourselves are pouring our money into the wrecking ball of capitalism, thereby providing oxygen to the most devastating foe that humanity has ever had to face. It’s a heavy subject but broken down into small habit-changing steps that offer success, joy, purpose and peace in our daily lives.
To be a revelationary for nature is a lifestyle choice, working at the highest level of effectiveness to create the change Greta Thunberg is asking for. And every single person has the power to take it on.
Align Your Life With Nature 3448 words Read time 23 minutes
De-Condition Your Mind 2839 Words Read time 18 minutes
We know how to refresh a screen, but is it possible to refresh our minds? By turning to nature, actually meeting and sharing communion with that tree, the stream, those clouds, etc., our overburdened, heavily shaped and agitated minds can find rest. This is a normal way to live for people pre-capitalism. Helpful, practical and simple ways to enrich our relationships and therefor our societies.
Plus the story of a magical encounter from my own childhood.
Own Your Life – Live Your Values
Resist, Recycle, Reuse, Refuse
12 & 13) An ever-expanding list of inspirations from others: authors, film makers, foresters, musicians and friends. Nourishing prompts to keep us on the Revelatinary Road.
14) The last word from the collaborators of this work.
15) Contact Page