Three Aunties, Inc., a new Florida not-for-profit corporation, received its IRS determination letter on September 14, 2012, informing us of its 501 (c) (3) tax exempt public charity status.
Below is the background information and mission statement for our new organization. We look forward to letting you know what our progress is on the projects we are planning.
PHILOSOPHY
The Three Aunties, the maiden, mother and crone, symbolize the three-fold relationship we have with one another and our environment as we spiral through time in the multiverse.
Below is the background information and mission statement for our new organization. We look forward to letting you know what our progress is on the projects we are planning.
PHILOSOPHY
The Three Aunties, the maiden, mother and crone, symbolize the three-fold relationship we have with one another and our environment as we spiral through time in the multiverse.
• First
we are nurtured with untold blessings from nature and our ancestors, so that we
come into the world in a state of gratitude.
• Next
these blessings blossom and come to fruition in our creative expression and
work.
• Finally,
we participate in our community through sharing our wisdom, and by providing an
empowering example of harmonious living.
The relationship we have with our environment is
mutual. As we pollute the environment, our
bodies and consciousness become polluted.
As we destroy the ecological integrity of our environment, our personal,
physiological, spiritual, and cultural integrity is destroyed. As we attempt to separate ourselves from our
environment, we lose our connection with nature. As a result, we lose our sense of being part
of something immensely powerful, enduringly nurturing, and unfathomably
complex.
People have an innate need to be cradled in the arms of nature. Without this, we become insecure, and begin to do things that are self-destructive. The outcome is a population of miserable people who feel disconnected with our land, our community, our loved ones, and parts of ourselves.
People have an innate need to be cradled in the arms of nature. Without this, we become insecure, and begin to do things that are self-destructive. The outcome is a population of miserable people who feel disconnected with our land, our community, our loved ones, and parts of ourselves.
The words health, healing, whole, holy, wholesome, hallow,
heath, heathen, and holistic all come from the same Indo-European word root: kailo. The meaning of the root word is complete,
unharmed, and untilled or wild. People
are designed to live on the Earth, and the Earth is designed for people. We are not complete without the complex
relationship that naturally occurs between ourselves and the Earth.
GOALS
GOALS
Even at this late hour, most of the problems people have
created between themselves and nature can be healed. As people spend time listening, watching and
experiencing nature, they learn how to live in a good way, and how to engage in
a mutually-beneficial relationship with nature.
Our work through Three Aunties will be to listen, watch and experience
nature, and in obedience to the revelations received, to use this knowledge to
guide us on this three-fold path:
1.
Spirit:
To nurture healthy relationships between people and their natural
environment by providing opportunities for interactive experiences, by conducting
scientific research, and by sharing information about, and experience within,
natural systems relating to natural cycles, interactions, and
interdependence.
2.
Mind: To
provide programs, activities, conferences, events and educational materials
connecting people with natural history, ecology, environmental health, and
alternative healing; and,
3.
Body: To
garner material support for, setup, and to enrich, manage, monitor, and expand
biodiversity preserves that also serve the needs of people;
THE PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES OF THREE AUNTIES ARE:
- To nurture healthy relationships between people and their natural environment. Three Aunties will provide people with rich, enlightening, and rewarding experiences that promote understanding, mutually beneficial interactions, and commitment between people and nature. Three Aunties will introduce people to alternative ideas and behaviors, and will nurture the spiritual connection between people and nature that can promote long-term relationships between humans and the environment that have a positive ecological outcome. Specifically, Three Aunties will hostess activities, ceremonies, and events in the natural environment. In addition, Three Aunties will publish materials designed to make nature more accessible, hospitable, and understandable to people. Furthermore, Three Aunties will foster and conduct scientific research to determine the most appropriate ways for people to interact with nature, and will share information on natural systems and cycles that likewise informs interactions.
- To support people in their understanding of nature, ecology, natural history, biology, environmental health, energy medicine, and alternative healing with natural herbs and foods. Three Aunties will seek to enlighten through encouraging education, understanding, and research about the consequences of the actions of people in nature in the past, present and future. Three Aunties will inform people about the condition of the environment and its significance regarding ecology, toxicology, land use, environmental health and biodiversity. Specifically, Three Aunties will perform environmental consulting, research, and reporting, and environmental education for land managers, land stewards, decision-makers, educators, and the public. Furthermore, Three Aunties will provide educational materials, programs, activities, conferences and events connecting people with nature on all levels, mentally, spiritually, emotionally and physically.
- To take action in sustainable and right living that is mutually beneficial between humans and nature. Three Aunties will provide an opportunity for people to contribute to the creation of biodiversity preserves. They will be given an opportunity to donate time, energy, land, and money, and participate in preserving, monitoring, managing, enriching, expanding, and bio-diversifying natural habitat in Florida and the southeastern US. Specifically, Three Aunties will garner material support for the purpose of setting up and enriching, monitoring, managing, and expanding biodiversity preserves for healing the land and the people. Furthermore, biodiversity preserves will be integrated with the wider landscape through things like wildlife corridors and compatible sustainable and mutually beneficial human activity including primitive hunting and gathering, ecological farming, ranching, and environmentally-sound occupation.
SUMMARY
In sum, the threefold mission of Three Aunties is to garner material support for, set up, enrich, manage, monitor, and expand biodiversity preserves that also serve the interest of people; to provide, programs, activities, conferences, ceremonies, events and educational materials connecting people with natural history, ecology, environmental health, and alternative healing; and to nurture healthy relationships between people and their natural environment by providing opportunities for interactive experiences, conducting scientific research, and disseminating information on natural systems, cycles, interactions and interdependence.
In sum, the threefold mission of Three Aunties is to garner material support for, set up, enrich, manage, monitor, and expand biodiversity preserves that also serve the interest of people; to provide, programs, activities, conferences, ceremonies, events and educational materials connecting people with natural history, ecology, environmental health, and alternative healing; and to nurture healthy relationships between people and their natural environment by providing opportunities for interactive experiences, conducting scientific research, and disseminating information on natural systems, cycles, interactions and interdependence.
These services, opportunities, and information sources will
serve the general public by facilitating improved public health and quality of
life through changing how people do things as a result of improved environmental
awareness and a spiritual connection with nature.
PROGRAMS OF THREE AUNTIES
The purposes of the Three Aunties are promoted through research, education, and conservation programs to benefit decision-makers, land managers, land stewards, educators, and the public at large. To further its stated purposes, Three Aunties will create conferences, symposia, workshops, educational events, outdoor activities, reports, and publications in various media. Three Aunties will also engage in scientific research, environmental consulting, environmental and health education, land acquisition, and management. The services, opportunities, and information sources provided by Three Aunties will serve the general public by facilitating improved public health and quality of life through environmental awareness, self-awareness, and spiritual connection with nature.
The purposes of the Three Aunties are promoted through research, education, and conservation programs to benefit decision-makers, land managers, land stewards, educators, and the public at large. To further its stated purposes, Three Aunties will create conferences, symposia, workshops, educational events, outdoor activities, reports, and publications in various media. Three Aunties will also engage in scientific research, environmental consulting, environmental and health education, land acquisition, and management. The services, opportunities, and information sources provided by Three Aunties will serve the general public by facilitating improved public health and quality of life through environmental awareness, self-awareness, and spiritual connection with nature.
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