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Where can you go to learn to read Earth?

La Vista Ecological Learning Center’s
Summer 2009
Earth Literacy Program
“Exploring the Sacred Universe”
Join us atop the Scenic Bluffs
Overlooking the mile-wide Mississippi River
in Godfrey, Illinois
(near St. Louis, Missouri)
Mon. August 3 - Mon. August 10, 2009
Come, explore Creation’s integrity
in a setting that invites you
to broaden your vision!
Earth Literacy at La Vista
“Exploring the Sacred Universe,” our earth literacy program, is the highlight of the year for La Vista Ecological Learning Center, occurring each summer during the first full week of August. Seekers from many parts of the country gather here to immerse themselves in the Sacred Story of the Universe in order to discover how it can be a transforming context for their lives, as well as how it contributes to developing a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship.
We receive guidance throughout the week from the land, the view, and the whole community of life in this bioregion, as well as from the keen insights and rich wisdom of Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, and Miriam MacGillis, OP. Together with our own presenters, we facilitate participants’ deepening appreciation of the Integrity of Creation by striving to evoke a mutually enhancing human-Earth relationship. Together, we learn to read Earth!
Throughout the week we will:
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