Earth Pathways Showcase

In 2014, I entered a three-year retreat deep in the woods of West Wales, stepping quite fully out of modernity and into a more paradise way of being. During these years I built a simple round hut using natural materials and lived there without electricity, mains water, fossil fuels, digital technology or the internet. It was a radical journey of descent and re-connection to the earth in her raw elemental aliveness and beauty... It was a process of purification... It was an arduous struggle at times, to step so far outside the comforts and cultural norms of the modern western society in which I grew up... And it was incredibly healing and empowering, to detox from the technological matrix, the mainstream media and the consumer nightmare and to plug back in to sources of natural inspiration, wellbeing and abundance.

Many times I dropped into a paradise state, feeling profound wonder and joy at simply being alive and part of the miracle of life on earth. This experience has shown me that it’s not only possible to choose to return to a life lived very simply upon the earth, but that this choice is also deeply healing, nourishing, and wildly magical.

Choosing Paradise © Uther Miraiam (Oak)